Thom, exceedingly pureJun 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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@thomholwerda I think the right analogy here would be USB-C. All the new iPhones have it and it’s fine. Not super great but fine. Now we’re locked in this port basically forever (for better or worse).

I think there would be a whole different discussion about Coca-Cola or Nestle opening up internal stuff to other companies.

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@meaningful_jan You've fallen for anti-EU propaganda. Nobody's locked to USB-C. The law enables the industry to come up with a new, better standard and have that slipstreamed into the law with zero hassle... This already happened once before, when we went from micro-USB to C. No law had to be changed to do that.
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@thomholwerda with one company inventing it, integrating it into their own products and rolling it out to everyone else after say 2 years?