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.

Show threadocdtrekkieJun 22, 2024

@thomholwerda You can see the same with the laws requiring Google and Meta pay for the content they scrape as they wreck journalism: They loudly claim it'll destroy the internet, *pay* nonprofits and news outlets to act like it's apocalyptic, threaten to delist news and all.

...And then if you ignore their whining about being regulated, you realize they're paying up in all the countries that held firm.

Show threadAbazigal
@ocdtrekkie On a side note, while I do understand the rationale behind this, I do not agree with having Meta and Google pay out. News outlets had it coming with their over-reliance on advertising and their being too slow to pivot.
Jun 22, 2024 at 3:32pmIvory for iOS
Show threadSam Thurston Jun 22, 2024
@Abazigal @ocdtrekkie Google and Meta's entire business model is advertising
Show threadocdtrekkieJun 22, 2024
@samthurston @Abazigal And the core issue is that Google and Meta generally grab the meat of the content journalists actually worked to create... and just slap their own ads on it within their scraper platforms and avoid users clicking through to pay the news site.