Look at the size of these numbers 😳

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any takers in /europoooooor? (also open question to those outside of europe as well)

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https://x.com/sophiadew/status/2104389846714515915?s=46

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This is peak europoor https://x.com/kailentit/status/2093022581515284879

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Really worrying slippery slope of EU bureaucrats shenanigans 🤬 https://x.com/zemariamacedo/status/2074830014403551462?s=46&t=vGdL6gMJv0qcvymUV8209g

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Americans like their meat and we like it subsidized too. Particularly when celebrating this nations 250th birthday. https://www.perplexity.ai/page/usda-plans-500m-aid-for-small-0gXmMinpTkeu1lgGuMcw9A

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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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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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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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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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Hmm, sounds familiar 🧐

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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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POV: you tell a european you play pickleball not tennis or “pad-el”

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