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For the mids and the world leaders in regulation.
@monteluna
In 2014, France posted a fictional 2050 weather scenario showing intense heat.
Instead of investing in nuclear power, electrification, allowing electric car imports to help reduce emissions, and government spending, they nerfed their energy production and tried to tell people to stop growing.
The current weather is now worse than the 2050 prediction, and they still buy Russian gas and probably are growing imports from the US.
France used to be the powerhouse of mathematics and logic, and was the center of the globe during the Enlightenment period. They also got a free stim pack in colonialism and to this day still engage in it. It's literally free money.
How they ended up here where their citizens can't even plug in Air Conditioning even if they could afford it, despite having every advantage you could possibly have in the past 300 years of history, will be studied for centuries.
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@monteluna
If I were taking over a country and wanted to implement serfdom where I control people, it's exactly what I'd do. Make up rules based on immeasurable or deeply impossible metrics like emission targets or trust and safety, then make sure the rules keep everyone drunk, poor, and happy.
The average european is so psyoped they believe wanting basic modern living comforts and regular freedom of technology makes them an enemy of the state.
It's crazy in comparison since the average Latin American, even after 50 years of CIA operations to do psycological warfare on their population, is completely aware of government propaganda. They question the directive at least.
Europeans though?
You tell them they are enslaved serfs that can't even implement air conditioning, and their Brussels programming will kick in explaining ESG targets or trust and safety, or how they lead the world in regulations.
https://x.com/patrickc/status/2069451055142936709
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@rezaisgoat.eth
I saw this and immediately thought about asking /europoooooor about this. I have seen some friends who immigrated to Europe talked about this and I thought it's just a rare occurrence. Is this limited to some countries?
https://x.com/i/status/2069451055142936709
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@tldr
Unironically, this matches my own personal experience super closely.
(Even the difference of 68 vs 71 during sleep makes a pretty big diff for me on quality and duration)
https://x.com/trungtphan/status/2069499505637261356?s=46&t=jfFbiO6yqIgiuy-BqPaNpg
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@bfg
This is a good summary of bizzare EU regulation direction … slowly becoming scary 🫣
https://x.com/wilderko/status/2069174188229722306?s=46&t=vGdL6gMJv0qcvymUV8209g
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@baseddesigner.eth
on top of all the bureaucracy EU is becoming uninhabitable
getting hotter every year
and in Lisbon for example it’s almost impossible to set up AC - you now need to book years in advance it feels like lmao
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@monteluna
"Europe is stuck in a static industrial structure with few new companies rising up to disrupt existing industries or develop new growth engines. In fact, there is no EU company with a market capitalisation over EUR 100 billion that has been set up from scratch in the last fifty years, while all six US companies with a valuation above EUR 1 trillion have been created in this period.
This lack of dynamism is self-fulfilling."
https://commission.europa.eu/topics/competitiveness/draghi-report_en
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@moo
EU orders WhatsApp to retain free API access.
In a move that surprises no one, the EU is forcing WhatsApp to give free API access to developers. This is because "unequal access." WhatsApp is open but paid, where API users need to pay per message.
While this is nice, this does not address the root problem. Why people use WhatsApp? Because it is free. What was alternative before WhatsApp? SMS. What everyone has? SMS. What everyone is not using? SMS. Why people are not using SMS? Because telecoms made it a cash cow by malking you to pay EUR 3.7 millions per gigabyte of SMS traffic.
Everyone who was using SMS when WhatsApp came around remembers trying to squeeze as much as they can to 160 character message, because the telecom operator was, and still are, leeching every cent they can get out of a consumer.
WhatsApp list pricing is ~0.05 EUR per message (depends on the routed country) vs. ~0.04 EUR per message on SMS (depends on the routed country). The list prices are available on Meta's site transparently.
The EU has several telecom operations it can boss around locally. It could force all SMS services to be free to get adoption for them. The EU could force all its telecoms to offer agentic AI access to SMS for free.
But instead of investing into this, where the EU could really reign and boost domestic AI development, they want to get the same result by litigation with a US company.
Because WhatsApp is free and not allowed to display ads, it is a question if the EU can ever allow WhatsApp to be successful as a business.
I hate Zuckerberg as much as everyone else, but we should not questioning the brain rot called Henna Virkkunen, commissioner, the gift of Finland to the world, and her ineptitude when it comes to boost EU technology sector and competence.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8qj8wjgxwo
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@lambchop
POV: you beat a european at tennis as a tennis noob using the power of pure pettiness & the decades of pent up rage within
(the person i was playing had a knee injury)
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