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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/27037278

Threatened by potential EU regulatory changes, the movie, music, and sports industries are vehemently defending the practice of geo-blocking, as an essential part of their business models. Rightsholders argue that eliminating geo-blockades would devalue content, force price hikes for consumers in some countries, and ultimately reduce investment in content and localized services.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago

Where is the post?

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250314-3

The Eurostat page looks much better in terms of the information it provides.

Even better: Eurostat | Statistics Explained | Mortality and life expectancy statistics. It has life expectancy at birth and at 65.

Life expectancy at birth has risen rapidly during the past century due to a number of factors. These include a reduction in infant mortality, rising living standards, improved lifestyles and better education, as well as advances in healthcare and medicine. Official statistics reveal that life expectancy has risen, on average, by more than two years per decade since the 1960s. In 2020, however, after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, this indicator declined in 25 EU countries compared to 2019, the exceptions being Denmark and Cyprus. In 2023, life expectancy at birth was equal to or higher than in 2019 in 21 EU countries. By contrast life expectancy fell in 6 EU countries: Finland (-0.5 years), the Netherlands (-0.3 years), Germany (-0.2 years) to Italy, Latvia and Austria (all -0.1 years).

There's also an entire book on "The imapct of Demographic change": https://commission.europa.eu/system/files/2023-01/Demography_report_2022_0.pdf

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I would love to share the Nubula link for this instead. But they didn't publish it there yet.

Edit: Nebula is not EU - maybe partially because of some EU creators. But it's also not Google.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 6 points 2 years ago

Exactly. Even the most inclusive are hard to use when compared with using the Visa/Mastercard networks which are integrated with most banks and merchants.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 60 points 2 years ago

The problem in Europe is exactly the fragmentation of payment systems. For most you can only use them if you are a resident and have a bank account on that country.

•	Wero: Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands
•	MB WAY: Portugal
•	Twint: Switzerland
•	Swish: Sweden
•	MobilePay: Denmark, Finland
•	iDEAL: Netherlands
•	Bancontact: Belgium
•	BLIK: Poland
•	Satispay: Italy
•	Vipps: Norway
•	Giropay: Germany
•	Sofort: Germany
•	Cartes Bancaires: France
   -     Etc....
[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 2 points 2 years ago

People should really stop talking about Tesla. Everyone knows what a Tesla is, even people who can't name any other car brand/model.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

People from Greenland would surely accept to exchange their land with California.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 17 points 2 years ago

Maybe they are just being well paid

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago

I couldn’t find the link from the screenshot, but it’s a bit frustrating that there isn’t any source linked.

Maybe this from 1 week ago?

https://www.watson.ch/wissen/wirtschaft/800063856-buy-european-widerstand-gegen-trump-und-us-produkte-waechst

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Apple has a very limited list of search engines that it allows.

There are a couple of extensions that do reddirect, but that doesn't even prevent the request from going to the Search Engine defined in settings.

Alternatively, I can try a different browser, but they are objectively worse, and none of them can use extensions.

I'm wondering if I'm the only one stressed with this or has everyone found a alternative that I don't know.

This looks like proper monopolistic behaviour btw

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 5 points 2 years ago

Honestly, the village is everything that was listed here. Including the workplace finding a way to be child friendly. Even a restaurant.

It is currently too hard to have kids, and you can see that less people are doing it because everyone is so insensitive to it.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 4 points 2 years ago

This is definitely helpful. I hadn't noticed it. Kagi keeps on giving. Thank you!

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I am sorry the question is confusing.

But some Google searches give much better results if you add "reddit" to the end of your query. This ends up generating a lot of traffic for Reddit.

Anyone found a way to search something but hint Google to look at Lemmy?

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Wealth tax is a common topic every now and then, but somehow it ends up being dismissed quite quickly. I thought this post about how wealth tax works in Switzerland could be interesting.

We might see more of this in Europe in the near future.

[-] professionalspooner@feddit.org 7 points 2 years ago

I can imagine the prompt to generate this:

  1. Make a list of EU regulations that apply to tech giants and explain what they are.
  2. For each of the regulations add one example that oversimplifies the potential downsides
  3. Ommit any advantages

A troll trolling.

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