This is interesting - so *not* knowing the final price you pay is obfuscation.
I am wondering whether such reasoning really comes from a thoughtful consideration or from repeated oriented speeches (we all know any assertion becomes true if repeated enough).
Of course in countries telling you the final price, we also perfectly know the tax amount (it is written on all invoices anyway).
And what about the new Trump taxes on import goods? Also needed to be added separately?

We Europeans were consulted several years ago and massively voted to abolish DST. 5 years later it is still there.
Applying the decision seems very complicated. How can our politicians achieve anything anything significant if *this* is something complicated.

Your track record in the matter does not seem to include defending Julian Assange.
According to the number of pro-free-speech posts here and against-Julian-Assange there, I am wondering if the defence of free speech is really the conviction of such posters, or if some other agenda might be involved.

In China, the compatibility with apps is not that important due to Wechat and its professional counterpart Wecom.
Those are full ecosystems within an app:
- real identification (you have proved who you are at a desk in person with your id card at the phone company and at the bank for your linked account)
- app store ("mini-programs") where you find absolutely everything you have on your phone in the west, and more
- payments: both online, physical, phone to phone + bank services (loans, savings...)
- and yes, a chat / social application

Once your phone OS has the Wechat app running, and in a lesser extend a few other competitors you don't really care about it's heavy apps ecosystem.

Quite interesting to see the strong feelings this shower topic stirs up (amongst US posters?).
So, trying to moderate consumption means going to "dark ages", "downwards path", "the commie side", even "the Chinese can shower as long as they want to" (!).
Posts with a slightly different opinion are very careful to not express it, and instead just cite their particular practice: Navy showers, cut-off or pressure balanced valve, bucket bathing.
But some people in some places think that longer, bigger, stronger, pricier is not always a progress. And sometimes better (food), smaller (cars, houses), shared (transportation), smarter (entertainment), closer (vacations), more open (relations to other cultures) provide as much value. And no this has nothing to do with socialism.

What is definitely astonishing me is what this says about the (in-)ability of our rulers to *do* anything. Their unique purpose as politicians is to discuss, agree and implement simple to more complicated topics. If they are not able to implement something as trivial, how can we expect them to do anything else?
Excuses as "the coronavirus pandemic has delayed its implementation" just adds more ridicule.

Yes, easiest way to stop those discussions is to stop changing time, which in Europe would mean honor the will of a very large majority.
I lived 6 years in North Asia without anyone ever discussing it, except for the burden of re-synchronizing schedules with change-time countries around those dates.

Considering 3.79% answers coming from Germany as "most of the responses" is bad faith.
Regarding _online_, so what? Would such topic rather need to invest millions € and trees in paper votes?
reference: https://ec.europa.eu/transport...

There was a big survey in Feb 2019 in Europe asking if people wanted to suppress DST.
Result: 16% "keep DST", 83% "abolish" with 59% wanting to keep summer time.
The target to act on this survey was 2021, but since then... nothing.
Now that I see this debate in the US, I am not surprised: even on such a minor topic the Europeans leaders don't seem to be able to take any decision that does not come first from the US.

Give them the car lanes.

A delivery robot will at least obey the speed limits. They won't make obscene gesture when you intend to use that crosswalk. They don't get obnoxious, they don't horn at you. They also won't have those damn migraine inducing fumes from noisy engine. They can have all those highways, too. You know the ones, blocking normal human walks by some car industry subsidized mayor who likes to cover nature with asphalt, and steals all the city real estate to store cars in the first place.

Namaste Anonymous coward.
Although maybe not as many as they were before, there are some older souls in this world not yet fully overcome by the ocean of cynicism. They need to find inspiration for a better world elsewhere than from the US though nowadays.

To a Chinese colleague telling me a few days ago that this whole thing must of course be instructed/manipulated by US executive power, I answered I did not believe so because unlike China and other authoritarian regimes, the ground of our western democracies is that justice is not a tool of the executive power but independent.
As an example a meaningful symbolic action in the beginning of the French revolution was to free the prisoners from the King's prison La Bastille.
Apparently I was wrong. Is America going to let Trump undermine democracy until there is nothing left of it?

In Shanghai I can still hail a car to go golfing and pay 15 USD for 1:30 hour ride and 35 km. With this wage the driver is very happy to eat noodles, live in a basement and see his children once a year when going back to his home village 1000km away.

I use Uber and its Chinese competitors in Shanghai (or in China I'd rather say I use the Chinese car hailing apps and their competitor Uber).
Yidao and Didi already have those scheduled rides and quite some other options:
- Pick-up at the airport, where you provide your flight number so the car adapts to the plane being late
- Hire a car for a half day or full day
- Choose your driver instead of letting the system select
- Integrated text message facility, where you can save your usual messages to be sent in one click to your driver

Uber big advantage is its translated app and worldwide support team that is able to handle cases in your language.

I just come back from one year in China and exchanged SMS with French located mobile phones (between China Mobile and SFR or Orange) - all was ok except that you cannot see hanzi if your Nokia was bought in France.