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Thom, exceedingly pure Jun 22, 2024

The EU enacted a new law a while ago that all bottle caps should remain attached to the bottle, to combat plastic trash.

All the bottle and packaging makers, from massive multinationals like Coca Cola and fucking Nestlé to small local producers invested in the development of new caps, changing their production lines, and shipping the new caps. Today, a month before the law goes into effect, it's basically impossible to find a bottle without an attached cap.

I don't know, I thought this story was weirdly relevant right now with Apple being a whiny bitch. Imagine being worse than Coca Cola and motherfucking Nestlé.

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Flo Jun 22, 2024

@thomholwerda To be fair, it’s also basically impossible to find anyone who doesn’t loathe these attached caps with all their heart.

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johnaldis Jun 22, 2024

@subraumpixel @thomholwerda And also it’s become difficult to find soft drinks without a mountain of sweeteners after the sugar tax came in. I’m in favour of regulation, but the people who get elected to the EU are often exactly the people who hate both the EU and regulations, so you end up with some pretty bad rules. (If people cared a bit more about the EU and showed up to vote having researched the candidates, this might happen less often).

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johnaldis

@subraumpixel @thomholwerda I’m not at all against the “pay to opt out of tracking” thing that FB has to do, and I do think it’s reasonably positive that there are other app stores on the iPhone now, but when the people who get sent to Brussels are the same people who complain about the “Brussels gravy train,” it doesn’t lead to good results.