I know EU has many programs in the area but one would expect it to become a bigger focus during an energy crisis, especially because it’s so cheap. So far the EC response is „accelerate electrification” which is something I’d expect to hear in 1950 and not 2030.

Doesn’t mention incentivising public transport or remote work. They’re okay with wasting energy and resources as long as line goes up on some disconnected from reality macroeconomics chart.

I was talking about nicotine in general. I thought this was a ban solely on cigarettes (since it’s easier to implement and control). I’m truly happy that they went with this. History will thank UK for making this step, encouraging others and I can bet my entire bank account on this.

First past the post is a system that has many faults but also benefits like continuity of policies and less deadlocks. I don’t think it’s a good system but it is democratic and won’t prevent a eventual change that people want, see the currently ongoing change in French politics for example.

I think there are better uses of your freedom than advocating that people should be free to be scammed by big corporations because that doesn’t sound like freedom at all. They’d be more free if they didn’t waste money on a pointless drug. They could even purchase more useful drugs with that money.

Heck yeah, that’s even better then. Such a pointless drug. Helps with anxiety caused by nicotine withdrawal, which is a scam if you ask me. We don’t slap a warning label on scams like pyramid schemes and such, we just outlaw them.

I gave you an example of a compromise that works. This is a compromise too.

UK chose it’s government democratically, didn’t they? Hence what it does is the closest approximation to the will of people. I’m speaking for them. We want people to self organise to collectively fight against the oppression and that’s what happened.

I’m glad there are little guys fighting the good fight for the tobacco industry, must be fun.

Well yeah, but you also live in a lawless apartheid state.

I got addicted to cigarettes at 16 when the age to legally buy tobacco was 18. It’s laughably easy to play “hey mister” until someone agrees.

Would you do it if you had to rely on someone else until you die? What happens when you’re 50? You ask your 55 year old buddy to buy it for you?

According to western media we have a centre-left pro-EU government. Nothing is going to happen even though we’re no different to Hungary but neoliberals are covering for neoliberals. This is why a pro-business liberal party will never be a friend of minorities or regular people in general.

I loved how they took more responsibility in 38.

I just gave you an example of prohibition that didn’t result in anything other than people not going out drunk to buy more alcohol. It works, seen first hand.

You’re not going to be an ex smoker if you didn’t get addicted to cigarettes in the first place, which I don’t think is worth the effort if it’s illegal. Also an ex-smoker. Wake me up when 17 year olds look for illegal cigs when vapes are more accessible. That one hipster guy who needs it for the looks doesn’t count.

Why government should dictate what we do? That’s what we have them for. There is such thing as too much freedom because it results in effectively less freedom for a regular Joe and more freedom for tobacco companies. Nation states with functional governments are a form of defence against anarchy because anarchy is just an intermediate step towards monarchy.

I don’t see people being so desperate for cigarettes to the point they’d be looking for black market solutions. It’s not like they’re banning all nicotine products either.

My city implemented nighttime prohibition of alcohol sale in shops few years ago. Many people said it wouldn’t solve anything because of black market. Stats shows less crime, less littering. No black market activity to be found because it’s not a big deal.

He’s better for multinational businesses and that’s what media cares about mostly. It’s good Hungarians realigned with EU however, being independent usually means being played by everyone. We’ll see who else sold out to Russians now too, it only takes one to veto so no need to show yourself before.

French Revolution didn’t reach far enough.

EU might get it one day, Poland will just opt out since that’s basically communism.

Devices probably no but accounts yes and for a very good reason. Shame governments are skipping societies consenting to this though.

Why introduce it then?

I actually downloaded the PS3 version of DNF off Myrient so I can vouch that’s not it 👀

I’m not worried about backups since all of Myrient content originated elsewhere. The true value of Myrient was how accessible and fast it was and that’s the hard part that this project hasn’t demonstrated yet.

Are they pirates if they paid for it? Police working on behalf of corpos for chilling effect. I’m paying for YouTube and watch pirated content hosted there all the time.