This is partly true, but the European Commission is also the only body that can create initial proposals for new EU legislation. The European Parliament and EU Council cannot create new legislative proposals from scratch by themselves, they can only amend and approve proposals from the Commission.

Now that the European Commission has declined to submit a new legislative proposal on the subject, though, the European Parliament will try the one thing they can do: They'll amend the Digital Fairness Act to include the necessary consumer protections for video games.

Why are all the giant US tech companies concentrated in Silicon Valley and Seattle instead of being spread evenly throughout the country? Because Silicon Valley and Seattle is where all the tech investors are. The success of tech startups depends almost entirely on investor funding. And what do EU tech startups lack the most? You guessed it, investor funding. EU tech companies have to earn money for their growth the hard way because European investors are almost as risk-averse as the banks. Loosening labor regulations will do exactly nothing to improve access to funding.

Well, you might still need to change <svg width="123" height="456"> to some other values to change the default dimensions of the image. But you can do that with plain old Notepad.

Owners of the public charger stations could use two solutions to eliminate this problem:

1) Divide the charging station into two types of chargers: Quick chargers will stop charging at 80% instead of switching to the slow mode. Full chargers will charge up to 100%. You're free to choose which one you want to wait for.

2) Charge by the minute, not by watt. Charging to full capacity will cost you extra.

Rice is a similar case. I've tried to find a rice cooker that doesn't have non-stick coating (read: PFAS) and as far as I can tell, there are none.

I don't know how this works in America but where I'm from, there already is a rule against changing someone's salary like that: Every salary change requires a contract amendment signed by both the employer and the employee.

The thing that inflates drug costs the most is not clinical trials but endless patents. The pharma industry keeps using patent law loopholes to keep their drug patented even decades after the original patents formally expired. There used to be a generic drug industry which produced cheap patent-free drugs and some of those companies even got big enough to start their own research. But it was mostly bought up by big pharma or driven out of business by endless patents.

Bruh, Springer is a giant publisher which owns hundreds of scientific journals covering all fields of science. If you search for climate science papers "on Springer", you'll find thousands of papers from completely different journals than the article above is about.

Let me put it this way: Scientists are free to follow their personal politics to ask scientific questions. But if they also allow their politics to override verifiable facts and dictate the answers, they're frauds who have no place in science.

The paper authors picked a physics journal that has nothing to do with climate science. It's very likely the authors knew that the paper would be reviewed by physicists who think they know more about climate change than actual experts (but really don't). That's how it passed peer review to begin with.

And blowing up the pipeline also allows Russia to wiggle out of hefty damages for breaching gas delivery contracts.

Gas prices in the EU are now cheaper again than the day before Russian invasion of Ukraine.

EU countries have already filed lawsuits against Gazprom for breach of contract when it stopped supplying gas through Nord Stream in early 2022. If Nord Stream didn't blow up, Gazprom would be on the hook for damages far greater than the cost of building a new pipeline. https://www.reuters.com/busine... https://www.cez.cz/en/media/pr... https://globalarbitrationrevie...

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I didn't say that Seldon made it to Terminus. But he certainly did live long enough to hear the exile sentence at the end of his treason trial.