By not voting they support all of it.

The problem might be that if they're everywhere there's no control group without them, so it's hard to say if an effect is actually caused by microplastics or not.

What's the youth supposed to do? They've been mocked and cursed and attacked and arrested for participating in climate action, and the people in charge are continuing on their slow and unsteady curse. We've had many decades of warnings with increasing urgency and nobody cared enough, what's the point of focusing on the youth when they're the least responsible for the state of the world?

It would, so they chose a jurisdiction that's unrelated to any involved party but doesn't have those laws.

When your "thermonuclear lawsuit" is so flimsy that you have to find a bully-friendly court first...

Which applies to far more than just car dealerships, a lot of "economy" is just people installing themselves as middlemen, siphoning off money from others' work and using it to protect their position.

repairs are not a matter of subsidies. Only new infrastructure is supported.

That's a big problem. If you incentivize a company to not maintain the infrastructure because you will pay for it once it's completely broken it will be completely broken.

Just the boring one: That all the exciting conspiracies (and other stuff like "culture wars") are there to distract from the banal reality of most people and the world being exploited by a few selfish assholes.

Let's hope there's already a law that the EU can find to apply (since they already don't like the non-EU dominance of big tech), or that they make one in time.

Facebook's Datenhunger und andere mögliche Motivationen mal ganz beiseite, die Nutzerzahlenverhältnisse sind total unausgewogen. Mastodon hat weniger als 2 Millionen aktive Nutzer, Threads ist auf gutem Weg zu 100 Millionen, und das bevor es in der EU startet. Mastodon würde von dieser Menge einfach überrannt und seine eigene Charakteristik verlieren, von Lemmy mit 100.000 Nutzern ganz zu schweigen.

Threads blocken ist einfach notwendige Selbstverteidigung.

Inspired by someone whose idea of cost cutting is just not paying others. Any rational person should be avoiding doing business with them.

Reddit: Demonstrates that locking away content is bad for the site and the wider internet.

Elon Musk: "I want that for my website!"