Nicker on 11/7/2023 at 05:39
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Utah-based furniture and home goods giant Overstock.com...
Patrick Michael Byrne. the Overstock Chief Executive Twat is one of the traitors who plotted Jan 6. Sociopaths R' Us.
Cipheron on 11/7/2023 at 14:09
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It's not like the rioters are not some sort of monolithic political demographic. That hardly seems like the actions of anti-authoritarian brown people. More like white nationalists. Riots are a great opportunity for many factions to take advantage.
Fascists and Nazis have become emboldened by events elsewhere, especially by Mango Mussolini and his merry thugs. Loving Hitler is cool again. Social memory is short.
Yeah I was thinking something along these lines. It also takes out two targets at one: take the Jews down a peg, but also implicate immigrants at the same time while undermining the French equivalent of BLM. It might not have been French Neo-Nazis, but they sure as hell benefit from the situation in more ways than one.
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Patrick Michael Byrne. the Overstock Chief Executive Twat is one of the traitors who plotted Jan 6. Sociopaths R' Us.
Dang, I wasn't aware of the links there, I should have looked into it a bit better. So this can be a warning not to buy from BBB now, since it's owned by insurgents.
Azaran on 11/7/2023 at 14:35
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Fascists and Nazis have become emboldened by events elsewhere, especially by Mango Mussolini and his merry thugs. Loving Hitler is cool again. Social memory is short.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/01/22/379119380/for-many-french-jews-anti-semitism-has-a-clear-source) In this case, the Wahhabi far right might be involved
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Jean Marc Illouz, a former senior correspondent for French television, who is also Jewish, says he's been pushing back against what he calls ridiculous comments on the Internet about anti-Semitism in France. He says Americans seem to think it's a resurgence of Nazism.
"You see people are thinking of anti-Semitism in terms of World War II and coming from the French," says Illouz. "It has nothing to do with the French. It has nothing to do with the mainstream Muslim French thinking. It has to do with imported terrorism."
Illouz believes today's anti-Semitism stems from radical Islam brought to France by imams and jihadists espousing a hard-line doctrine from places like Saudi Arabia.
He says the vast majority of French Muslims want to be integrated into French society, and many are. But, he says, the radicals' message is corrupting a small, angry minority.
"You have a number of poor young people who have a problem much bigger than money," he says. "It's a problem of identity. Because they're neither Algerian, nor do they feel they are full-fledged Frenchmen. So in that gap, the jihadis found the way to put their lever."
SD on 12/7/2023 at 01:35
Antisemitism in France is overwhelmingly perpetrated by brown Muslims. Blaming white neo-Nazis for it is such an American opinion, it hurts.
Nicker on 14/7/2023 at 16:05
Yeah it would be a terrible shame if white Nazis got unjustly blamed for the actions of any of their co-fascists. They are still processing the guilt from WW2.
Oh wait. They are already completely over that. Silly me.
Azaran on 14/7/2023 at 17:52
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Yeah it would be a terrible shame if white Nazis got unjustly blamed for the actions of any of their co-fascists. They are still processing the guilt from WW2.
To be fair, if John commits a crime, we shouldn't blame Bob if he's not responsible. Bob might very well be a scumbag who committed a bunch of other crimes, but should he be blamed for something he didn't do?
Not to mention, letting John off to continue his crime spree because you're looking for other scapegoats.
If you're the victim of a crime, do you want the person responsible to pay? Or do you want the cops to select a random habitual offender who commits the same crimes, and charge him instead?
Nicker on 14/7/2023 at 18:53
That's a bit of a false equivalent when both John and Bob are just taking turns committing the same crimes against the same victims. Let us remember that John is still a violent criminal and a threat, even if Bob did the deed this time around.
'Oh thank god they busted Bob. Hey, John. Where you goin' with that gun in your hand...'
Whether brown fascists are hiding behind white fascists or white fascists are throwing false-flagging brown fascists, is moot, in my books.
SD on 15/7/2023 at 00:13
I knew it was the whites. Even when it was the Muslims I knew it was them.
Azaran on 20/7/2023 at 16:22
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https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/22/new-eu-law-to-force-smartphone-makers-to-build-easily-replaceable-batteries) New EU law to force smartphone makers to build easily replaceable batteries
The problem here is they're giving companies until 2027 to comply, which will give them plenty of time to find some loophole or concoct a workaround scheme to screw customers.
I can already foresee Apple only making batteries replaceable by their authorized $199 a piece ones - put another battery in the phone, and Apple bricks it.
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Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that.
The European Union will soon require smartphone manufacturers to let users replace their batteries.
The tough new rules - endorsed by the European Parliament this week - could save millions of phones from landfill.
Every year, more than 150 million smartphones are thrown away. Making batteries more easy to replace could stem this deluge of e-waste.
Existing phones seal away batteries within the tablet, meaning replacing them can be nearly as expensive as buying a new phone.
The new measures will help break that cycle of rampant consumption, MEP Achille Variati declared.
“For the first time, we have circular economy legislation that covers the entire life cycle of a product - an approach that is good for both the environment and the economy,” he said.
“We agreed on measures that greatly benefit consumers: batteries will be well-functioning, safer and easier to remove.”
Under the legislation, consumers must be able to "easily remove and replace” portable batteries used in devices such as smartphones, tablets, and cameras.
This will necessitate a significant redesign.
The smartphone replacement rules are part of a broader system of rules.
All electric vehicle and rechargeable industrial batteries above 2kWh will need to have a compulsory carbon footprint declaration, label, and digital passport.
The parliament also passed new targets for collecting waste and recovering materials from old batteries.
By 2031, 61 per cent of waste must be collected and 95 per cent of materials must be recovered from old portable batteries.
The rules will come into force in 2027.
Cipheron on 21/7/2023 at 12:52
The question of third-party batteries is a different one however.
Apple & Co don't want the phone to be fixable, they want you to throw it away and get a new one. Being able to replace the battery at all, even with only an official one, is an improvement.
Then, they could do a class action lawsuit if Apple simultaneously discontinued your phone's battery and also blocked third party batteries at the same time. The end result would be them knowingly acting in a way designed to breach the law.
So i think the right set of laws could constrain Apple here. EITHER they maintain the battery product long-term, probably for some designated lifetime of the product - which is also set down in government regulations, as this is about pre-planned product life cycles, or they allow the phone to work with third-party batteries. So then you'd hamstring them. They can either keep it proprietary in which case they're obligated to keep the production lines running or they can open it up and not have to deal with it: they can say it's up to the market to keep the batteries in supply.
There is an argument to let the phone companies build planned obsolescence into their phones, as this will "grow" the economy since people need to keep buying new phones, but it fundamentally boils down to the "broken window fallacy" which states that you could grow the economy by constantly smashing windows, since jobs would be created for glaziers.
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https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/broken-window-fallacy.asp)
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In a related bit of news, some people are upset that phone companies are trying to avoid providing "free" chargers with all their phones. Personally I think this is a good thing. Get a power board with USB charging ports. Charge it from your PC or laptop. But we make too many disposable chargers.
People on reddit were complaining that the EU's laws on interoperability with USB-C being standardized would be an excuse for companies to skimp on chargers. I wonder if any of those people are Apple employees? They want to keep people locked into a proprietary standard, the "free" charger that comes with it is actually a yoke around your neck. Companies that make USB phones could already get away with not including a charger, it's nothing to do with the law.
