Each big company should open its own app store in the EU making the use of iPhone impossible there. People will switch to Android pretty quickly.
If people want Facebook, they need to install the meta store and then install Facebook. A Google product? Install the Google store and then the app. Want Spotify? Install the Spotify store and then Spotify. TikTok? TikTok store and then TikTok…
Financial capitalism is another factor. Investing in the housing to have financial products with high financial return. It’s part of the speculation allowed in our neoliberal economy.
Add that the incomes are the same for decades and you end up with this. Housing or better having a decent place to live has to be a fundamental right.
No problems! People like to view the swiss policy with drugs as an example. Sure the implementation works, Bern was the first city with a protected space for drug use. It was a game changer and progressive for the time.
But, the reality is more mixed. The intentions were not so nice. People matter but the image of the country and the streets was another part. After the adoption of this policy, the city of Bern became a left city. Zürich has a similar path. It was not a leftist thing.
It workwd for the last 30 years. But, Switzerland has to be careful and work on it to keep the leadership it acquired.
Switzerland is concervative in some part of the country. It’s not like the US but the country has a division based on countryside and cities, cities being more liberal.
What made a change in the policy is that Switzerland had at the end of the 80’s the first and the second most important open scene in Europe. People came from all the country and even further to use drugs mostly opioid. People were using next to the Federal palace, home of the Parlament.
They had to do something and decided to have a liberal, progressive policy to help people instead of criminalizing.
But, we have multiple parameters to take in account. The first, it was at the end of the 80’s and the beginning of the 90’s. The population composition was different at this time. If you were not swiss, the chance to be deported was high.
Another factor is cultural. In the swiss culture, powerty doesn’t exist. People are wealthy. The really is different so Switzerland literally hides the poor and powerty. It’s similar to put everything under the carpet so everything is nice from the outside. The fact to see in parks and the nearby streets drug users day and night wasn’t a good think. The liberal policy match’s the fact that powerty has to be hidden.
It’s not only to be good or to do something good. Switzerland did horrible thing for the same reason like deporting children of poor families or single parent.
If people have an interest on the topic, I share two albums on imgur to see how it looked like. Both are NSFW!
Open scene in Bern, it was the second most important in Europe.
The open scene in Zürich was the most important across Europe.
Switzerland has this policy since the beginning of the 90’s with drug users. The quality of life improved to a level that retirement homes prescribe opioid to some resident.
It’s an amazing win-win-win situation. The overdose rate plunged with people being in a good health condition and finding jobs despite their addiction. The life expectancy of this group is sky rocketing. It costs a fraction to the society as people are contributing to the society itself.
No:
In so far as they are capable of being recharged via wired charging at voltages higher than 5 volts, currents higher than 3 amperes or powers higher than 15 watts, the categories or classes of radio equipment referred to in point 1 letters a) to m) shall:
(a) incorporate the USB Power Delivery, as described in the standard EN IEC 62680-1- 2:2021 ‘Universal serial bus interfaces for data and power - Part 1-2: Common components - USB Power Delivery specification’;
(b) ensure that any additional charging protocol allows the full functionality of the USB Power Delivery referred to in point (a), irrespective of the charging device used.
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-10713-2022-INIT/x/pdf
France is a fallen democracy. It became law after law more authoritarian in an Orban/Poland style. The last move of the government give some ints if the politics are still in power or if it become a police state. For those who aren’t aware of this last move in the country, after nearly killing someone, a cop was preventively put in jail according to the law. Nothing wrong here. But, the police unions voiced this was not acceptable and made proposal so cops could not jailed preventively. The gov just said “we are going to look at the proposal” without rejecting them even if these proposal are against the rule of law and Principe of democracy.
You can configure newpipe to download in the youtube music revanced app.
It may be useful for someone passing by.