I think this is the difference between opening doors to the future vs closing doors to the past. When China funded EVs and battery research, they opened the door to the future. When the EU and US try to ban gas engines, they are trying to close the door to the past. Guess which one works.

High on pesticides.

Even quadruple that it’s still token. More and it’s still cheap.

TCM?

Good to know. Sounds like token pricing to prevent abuse.

This is what gets people upset?

They don’t have universal healthcare?

Also DYK China now has a 3 child policy. Maximum, that is.

Bin Laden wanted the US out of Saudi Arabia. They aren’t and Saudia Arabia is currently on a shopping spree of US companies.

Russian forces attacked the VIVA, a vessel owned by a company from the United Arab Emirates, with a drone in the Black Sea. The ship was sailing from Ukraine to Egypt, carrying a cargo of sunflower oil.

No crew members were injured, the vessel sustained no significant damage, and it is continuing to its destination.

At least 11 people were killed in a shooting targeting the Jewish community at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach, and 29 people were taken to the hospital.

A man believed to be one of the shooters has been killed, New South Wales Police said. The second alleged shooter is in a critical condition.

It was an organized Hanukkah event at the beach.

He wants to be in charge, and not held responsible.

Not using turn signal? Straight to jail.

He got a break so he got to blame Obama first and now he gets to blame Biden.

JFC I have to be more specific? A law that defines allowable products is a law. A ban is a ban. If you want to ban a COMPANY that’s a ban on the COMPANY. not a LAW that defines allowable products.

Do you seriously think a company that has to adjust something just throws their arms up and says “Oh I guess we’re banned”? When the EU required USB-C ports did Apple just say “fuck I guess we’re banned, we’ll withdraw from the EU and lose all that revenue” or did they just put in a USB-C port. JFC. That law did not ban Apple the COMPANY.

JFC I’m leaving this conversation.

A law is a law, a ban is a ban. JFC.

And no they won’t go away if all they can do is post ads JFC.

Haiti is on the list of 19 countries with full or partial restrictions, which also includes Afghanistan, Myanmar, Chad, the Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Burundi, Cuba, Laos, Sierra Leone, Togo, Turkmenistan and Venezuela.

Uh no that’s not how it works. Classic Lemmy.

Then it’s not a ban, it’s a law. Which they’ll likely follow so that they have at least some level of business

European operations are already subject to European laws.

“Your ad account has been terminated,” X’s head of product, Nikita Bier, wrote on the platform early Sunday.

Bier accused the EU executive of trying to amplify its own social media post about the fine on X by trying “to take advantage of an exploit in our Ad Composer — to post a link that deceives users into thinking it’s a video and to artificially increase its reach.”

Replaced by knock off versions and nothing is solved.