Me “I like this song, it’s probably one of my favourites.”

AI “great to hear, I have made 100 songs that sound the same or very similar to it and added them to your playlist for you to listen to”

Me “I fucking hate that song”

There seems to be wide informal agreement by many Member States. In particular, Big Tech would be able to use all personal data collected over the past decades with virtually no restrictions.

It’s not surprising… The EU are, as it stands, against any form of online privacy.

The Irish government are pro-US Big Tech.

In 2025, STIHL generated €5.48 billion in revenue and employed 20,246 people worldwide. Founded by Andreas Stihl in 1926, the company is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Nikolas Stihl is the founder’s grandson.

Undoubtedly never worked a day in his life. Which also, undoubtedly he would argue about and tell us about that day when he was seven, his grandfather made him carry a sack of nuts and bolts from one side of the factory to the other.

I’ll bet that one day still sticks in his memory as if it was some form of torture.

But he thinks everyone that does it daily for hours should do it more for free.

I hope that this badly affects their company before he dies.

Yep, same thing I think, just Launcher Manager, and Launch Manager just make it easier, especially on those devices that hide accessibility access/services.

Have you tried Launcher Manager with the custom launcher?

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Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or services unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law.

Huh?

Do I have this correct? If the law makers (who this petition would be addressed to) decide that it is strictly necessary, proportionate and the gateway age pass is provided by them, then we are saying it’s okay?

Surely we already know that they will say it is ‘strictly necessary, proportionate’ and they can easily provide some sort of gateway template for site/app owners to implement on their websites.

They need those generators to protect the children. They should lobby to make them legal, as they’re for the greater good and bigger/more data centres.

Trump wins

The problem with politicians is that they all love holding power.

Direct democracy should be used as a stepping stone away from representative democracy, the most corrupt form of democracy that there is, and what we all pretty much have today.

The Lisbon treaty pretty much reduced any form of direct democracy that we had left by shifting more decisions from national governments to EU institutions (where citizens can’t use referendums to directly determine outcomes in the same way), it reduced the share of decisions that could be settled through national democratic direct-vote mechanisms, in Ireland they voted against it, but the government at the time made them vote again (until they got it right). AFAIK they were the only country to have a referendum on it. In every other state, the parliament decided on it. 🙄

They will likely have a larger warehouse in Bulgaria with most staff (lowest minimum wage in EU)

I think (not sure) that the minimum wage in Bulgaria is around €600.

Then maybe Latvia or Hungary.

They already have much smaller distribution warehouse around Europe that they can use after that.

You’ve answered your own question.

Is there actually any good way to complain about this garbage?

Start following any parties that advocate for direct democracy in your area. Maybe with anarchy being the final goal, finally getting rid of the middle-people.

But baby steps, The idea that a teeny, teeny, tiny amount of people can dictate everything and let it dribble down to our local overlords to enforce it is ridiculous.

List of Direct Democracy Parties around the World

Europe:

Albania

Albania Becomes Movement
Challenge for Albania

Austria

Neutral Free Austria Federation
The Greens – The Green Alternative

Cyprus

Direct Democracy Cyprus

Croatia

Law and Justice
Workers' Front
Zagreb is OURS

Czech Republic

Dawn – National Coalition
Freedom and Direct Democracy
Public Affairs

Estonia

Conservative People's Party of Estonia
Estonian Greens
Estonian Nationalists and Conservatives

France

Parti Pirate

Finland

Change 2011
Movement Now
Avoin Puolue

Germany

Action Citizens for Justice
Citizens for Germany
Democracy DIRECT!
Democracy in Motion
Democratic Union of Germany
dieBasis
Die Violetten
Freie Wähler
From Now on... Democracy Through Referendum
Germans Originating from all of Germany (Autochthons)
INDEPENDENTS for citizen-friendly democracy
MERA25
Pirate Party Germany

Greece

Ecologist Greens

Hungary

Party of Internet Democracy

Iceland

Left-Green Movement
Humanist Party

Ireland

Direct Democracy Ireland

Italy

Five Star Movement

Netherlands

More Direct Democracy

Spain

Internet Party
Partido Pirata
Podemos
Galicia (Spain) Galicia
    Land Party

Poland

Kukiz'15
Demokracja Bezpośrednia
Demokracja Bezpośrednia (parliamentary circle)

Russia

Party of Direct Democracy

Sweden

Aktiv Demokrati
Demoex (Democracy Experiment)
Direktdemokraterna
Libertarian Municipal People

Turkey

Left Party
Kurdistan Workers' Party
Green Left Party

United Kingdom

Communist Workers' Organisation

In Ireland it’s €6.65 or similar for ‘handling’ charge + vat (tax).

it works out at €8.50 per parcel (not per item). Only applicable if the seller hasn’t already charged the vat + €3 at their end. So this new rule could be a reduction in Ireland.

But as you already mention, the Chinese sellers will start opting into the platform options to use their EU warehouse.

This will only really be a headache for the other European countries no longer in the EU, like UK, as much of their stuff is already priced fairly high coming into EU anyway, and an extra possible €5 per item mightn’t help.

Chinese items from EU warehouse will probably mean quicker shipping.

But, the items will possibly be €5 more anyway, as the shipping won’t be subsidised like it is from China.

1. import in bulk, pay the €3 fee even if it’s for 100 items.

2. Pay the new handling fee (whatever it ends up being)

3. Markup 600% and sell on Amazon with Amazon cut added in.

4. Make some money, make Jeff Bezos a trillionaire.

5. Jeff Bezos hides taxes from the EU and US, everyone’s a winner.

Yeah, thanks I corrected it to read “different item”

As it says here per item

I believe it is only if the items are declared as different by the seller. for example 3 pairs of socks and a pair of shorts could be packaged as the same items, in one package, yet in another as two different items.

EDIT -

What ‘item’ stands for

The 3 € fee is applied per declared item, where ‘item’ means each unit of a product that is declared on a separate line. Specifically, the Commission defines “item” as one or more goods in a consignment sharing the same tariff classification, description and, where applicable, origin. However, due to the limitations of current IT systems, the tariff of €3 will be automatically applied per declaration line, regardless of the number of items included in that line, provided that the total intrinsic value of the shipment does not exceed €150.

What is “an item”? If I order a bag of 100 screws, is it 200€ handling fees?

No. if all items in the parcel are classed as the same, then they will only be charged once - €3 + €2 handing.

What about a kit for a 3d printer? Is it 2€ for every item in the kit or is it 2€ once?

It will likely be €3 for every item in the kit, but it is yet unclear if the handling fee will be for each item or for the parcel as a whole. Unless the kit is classed as one item like a set, or jigsaw etc.

If it is once, why would you punish people if they want to purchase all the things separately? And what stops the seller from declaring everything one customer buys as a “kit”?

I’m sure items will be examined to check if they are kits. I don’t know how. There are ‘science toys’ that come ready to assemble, Lego etc. I doubt they would charge for each individual item.

The current charge of €3 that was implemented on July 1st is per different item.

This new charge is unclear which it will be (per item, or per parcel).

But.

If the seller adds the €3 tax at the checkout per item, then it’s probable that there will be no handing fee.

Yeah, I’m on the list 🤗 so maybe that was the real reason.

No idea. that comment wasn’t allowed to be posted there. When I tried, I got this error.

If only people could see how bad representative democracy is and start asking how do we take it back to either direct democracy or any other form.

(This comment wasn’t allowed in reply to a comment in eu@piefed.social because of ‘language’)

They’re corrupt, but not yet on the scale that is seemingly mentioned over there.

What’s really scary is how little coverage these cameras/this company/these stories get in Europe.

Very, very little, if any. I don’t think that I’ve seen it heard anything other than what I see on Lemmy.