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  • Æ@piefed.socialtoEurope@feddit.org•German auto sector loses nearly 50,000 jobs in a year, industry saysEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Thats crazy. Who woulda thunk that european governments going for a strategy of giving rich (pedophiles) people billions in subsidies to buy american teslas while not funding mass appeal utilitarian electric vehicles to be built in europe for the masses or even helping poor people buy bikes, would result in american teslas only being bought by rich people paid for by poor people, while the chinese destroy the entire industry by building affordable cars for the masses. At a time of increasing inequality. Im glad all those rich people got so much money to buy fancy cars though. They can be more green while fucking the rest of the population.

  • Æ@piefed.socialtoBuy European@feddit.uk•Wero Tracker - European Payment Adoption ProgressEnglish
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    3 days ago

    All they really had to do is copy the twint app from switzerland, they have the perfect blueprint to copy. I really hope this works, but holy moly, the french app - paylib - which wero replaced allowed you to pay in shops, but now we cant with Wero, for an unspecified amount of time. Forced to use visa/mastercard in france now. It makes you wonder who all these marketing experts and banking and political decision makers are… we’re going to remove functionality and then hope user adoption goes up. In store payments should have continued using paylib background in the interim, or the wero in store payments should have been set up from the start. Its not that bloody difficult.

  • Æ@piefed.socialtoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•London's Most Controversial Cyclist - Lemmy: BestiverseEnglish
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    3 days ago

    As an alternative to points being issued, offensive drivers should be given a bike with gps, and an ankle bracelet and they should have to complete at least 1 month of of cycling (not electric either). The bracelet and bike gps dont have same data… you get the fine. Bike gets stolen… you get the fine. Someone crashes into you and bike broken… you buy a new bike. You get bones broken and cant go to work, you buy a new bike and get the points. Just like real cyclists.
    Also using phone while driving, even stopped should be an instant ban. If you’re too fucking stupid to use bluetooth or voice assistant, you probably shouldn’t be driving a car.

  • Æ@piefed.socialtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What technologies are constant failures but we can't stop trying to make work?English
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    6 days ago

    Ok, so, you responded with anecdotal evidence to someone who said they think tablets are a failure, which I replied to with my own anecdotal evidence. At no point did I say I agree with tablets being a failure. I was just countering your anecdote with my own. You came back at me in a condescending manner. I’m allowed to post my personal observations without being treated like a stone age moron who has never heard of a surface or tablets. So I replied in kind.

    You can argue all you want, but thats not going to change the statement, my initial statement “I dont know anyone with a tablet, except for one”, which is all I said.

    Personally I think laptops are great for work, programming dealing with 200 emails, having 45 tabs open, and all bloody office apps across two screens at same time, but tablets, great with a cat on the lap on the sofa. Original marketing hype was that anything you can do on desktop you will be able to do on tablet. It’s just not true. And reality. They just smartphones with bigger screens. So from a certain pov, they can be considered a failure. Which in my world, is true.