That’s patently false. You haven’t actually read the article have you?

Maybe but 100k a day is not noteworthy for a country like Norway either.

Indeed, I’ve used airbnb several times now to rent a vacation home in the French/Belgian/German countryside. For that it’s great. Cheaper than renting a bungalow somewhere and you have more space.

100k a day is not even worth looking at for them.

Plenty of good office chairs available for normal prices in Europe…

Toddler car seats actually have good lumbar support though.

That’s nice but all of that is irrelevant. You can view tweets without making an account.

Also, not one government solely relies on Twitter to disperse information, it is just one additional channel. They also use their own websites, apps, TV and radio.

Why is it absurd? The best way to reach people is on the platforms they use. People are not going to install some government app or use a special website to see those kinds of messages.

Mental illness is supernatural? What does that mean?

If only people would actually stop using Reddit instead of doing these useless “protests” like they do in /r/videos. They’re still using the site, that’s what Reddit wants…

Ghee is not an oil. Other than that I agree.

This is what Reddit forgot. They don’t implicitly provide any value, it’s the community that provides the value. Reddit is just the place where people happen to post.

It’s not an amendment, this is the actual law as it is adopted. The other document was just the proposal.

very few phones are used primarily in an environment of water immersion

They don’t have to be primarily used in that environment, they have to be designed to be used in that environment. The way this is worded is extremely broad and can basically mean anything you want it to mean. All current waterproof smartphones could fall under this exemption.

I love the EU and regulations like this but it always makes me sad when they make them broad and open to interpretation because that means corporations will find ways to get away with whatever they want.

You cannot have a consumer device at a reasonable price point, designed to provide water resilience, which also contains an open section to the power supply.

You certainly can. Look up any flagship smartphone and you can see that they provide water resilience and they have a charging port.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237_EN.html#title2

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:

(a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;

(b) professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in-vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.

Misleading title. Phones can still be glued. Waterproof phones still don’t need to have a user replaceable battery (the battery needs to be replaceable but by professionals).