That’s is just 10 days (two weeks) more than the mandatory minimum for new eyployees, it’s above average, but it’s what you get in most EU countries with some 10~20 years of work & a few kids.
(The orange part is just the starting minimum.)
Ok, on one hand we finally get a db of all the vampires & other such immortals, but fuck this anti-privacy shit.
The article doesn’t mention how it works, if the app is “offline” (more akin to mfa), just that it doesn’t forward your data to sites.
However:
It’s positioned as a temporary solution that will be superseded by the EU Digital Identity Wallet that’s expected to launch in 2026, which aims to provide a way for “European citizens, residents and businesses to prove who they are when accessing digital services” and a place to “safely store, share and sign important digital documents.”
Afaik the digital wallet’s goal is still to have online anonymity for stuff like third parties.
But why are we doing this app if it will get so little use (maybe they’ll refuse same APIs later with the wallet?)?
Yeah, but train yard sys admins are furries too (duh), maybe this is just a harmless place for their courtship rituals - train admins know the fediverse furries won’t cause some insane immoral damage, so they don’t patch their Win95 systems, so they just wait for the hack & that’s when they slip into their DMs (like an ASCII fancy socks pic or something).
‘You wouldn’t download an emergency train brake button (that is still functionally connected to the train you didn’t download)’
Lol, yes, posted at late American time, mentioning “feds” in EU, for a split second I thought we had a major international incident because some stupid badged individuals powertripped to Spain ‘to bust a crim’nl’.
I’m glad they didn’t, tho it would be at last something to read about.
Exactly.
“Let’s have less regulation so it will be simpler!” – I think having more or less of it is so irrelevant that ‘why not more’?
(It doesn’t hurt the people, the opposite actually.)
Especially when the talking point (almost the opposite of what you said) “we need less regulation but better regulation” is promoted by individuals looking for deregulation for their personal financial gain regardless of consequence to anyone & anything.
Also let’s not forget there is a thin line between regulation & corruption bcs with (regulation) corruption the law framework stops working correctly & gets over-complicated for the sake of it, in some cases such laws even protect specific companies & hurt everybody else.
It’s not the lawmakers or the public that makes for complicated laws, it’s the companies that want very specific things achieved & at best look for compromises adding complexities to regulation.
But by default I believe that with more “regulation” comes more professionals in the specific field & the larger the work force (and their personal agency & personal responsibilities & normal lives) the harder it is to corrupt. People revolt & people generally want to do their jobs good & for good (evidenced by a myriad of public minimal wage workers doing real important shit with all their power).
Dumping mercury should not be permitted & should be heavily persecuted.
(And basically researched out of industries.)
But you adding sugar to your diet (I’ll be overreaching & exaggerating with this to keep your example) can affect or stem from more than your own person.
Individually looking it’s your health & your health does affect people around you long-term, including healthcare (again, exaggerating - if everyone is fat we now have to redesign hospitals … + the long term effect of this being normalised, but this is more related to the next point actually).
However there is also a an economic view - sugar is biologically speaking very precious & rare, so humans having it available at next to no cost is fucking with our evolution-moulded minds (our mind tell us when we had enough of just about anything of strategic nutritional importance other than carbs, especially sugars - there is no limit for sugar bcs “you never know when the supply will run out”, no limit apart from the speed of begin able to process it I mean). \But it’s also insanely profitable in the industries that use it (sugar beverages, spreads, cereals) so it’s everywhere & caused serious health issues.
And there is a bunch of other harmful & easy to produce chemicals that we regulate in various ways (“drugs”).
I’m not saying you shouldn’t be allowed to add sugar to your own water (and we are far from that point anyway), just that regulation is such a live & cultural thing that lawmakers & agencies (regulatory or law-advisers) just have to live with the people & adjust on the fly bcs culture & people change significantly over just a few years.
In this sense I’m proud of the actual way of how EU lawmakers are doing things for the vast majority of time - all is very live, open/transparent, & hands on (and ofc “costly”, bcs complex problems require adequate solutions, otherwise it is just senseless cost).
First is the research (year/s), then live market consolations & current practices (year/s), then the draft proposal & a new round of even broader market consolations (sometimes literally mandatory, eg in financial industries, to cover like 3/4 of the market) of all stakeholders (year/s), then the regulation frame adoption (EU, country levels, responsible agencies, market leaders, etc), then after it’s all live years of market consultations again to get where the problems are (or where there arent & they can scrap/simplify the approach), what new problems & adaptations emerged, then the proposal for legal framework update, then consultations again (anyone can & must be heard), then the adoption of the v2 laws, and after that the cycle repeats for v3 etc.
This is in contrast with things done on a local level that are hastily done & require quick adoption by the industry (as a consumer I think even this is far better than nothing effective being done - if it’s stupid I’ll just try to vote them out).
I mostly know about EU regulations that are about to affect me (personally or professionally) years in advance and with about 12 month precision (some complex laws get delayed - or even just the live date if the market couldn’t get ready by due date with effort to do so).
Oh, yes, that totally too, and with competition better products, faster dev of new tech, and an economy guided by the consumers/citizens instead of megacorps.
But I meant more directly too - people bitch are taught to bitch over bureaucracy, reporting, “costs”, etc but all that only affects (very short term speaking) individual companies profit margins, not the economy - extra work being done (idk, measuring and reporting salmonella stats, or making salmonella tests or whatever, and agencies that go over the data) is just anther income that gets reinvested into the same economy (instead of getting wealth consecrated, on average). It’s not lost, it’s not counterproductive.
Sure, but a lot of EMU members never met the criteria (if you mean Maastricht), so it’s always a per-country decision.
Anyway, UK opted out at the beginning iirc (bcs politicians didn’t want to lose power), so I’m just saying we don’t let them have that luxury again (that € isn’t negotiable).
Yeah.
And now imagine the sheer power of this single industry that EU countries are getting pressured directly (lobbyists) and indirectly (literal USA politicians) hard to lower our standards just so they could export their torture chicken carcasses here.
They succeeded in a few other industries but with chickens the standards behind food safety are just the right level of complex (mostly bcs it’s not just one agency to put pressure on, and not that the regulatory definitions are complex or anything they do being over the top - I do want industries regulated and have regular monitored reports on various things, that’s the only way you know the guidelines are followed).
Americans believe regulation is bad
Were taught to and continuously are taught to believe regulation is bad.
Let’s not glance over how hard it is (& how much money is poured into this) to convince people that are suffering direct consequences of unregulated & deregulated businesses on daily basis how regulation is bad and only further deregulation, that brought on problems in the first place, will help solve them - at not at a single point even presenting the logic why would that ever work, like even theoretically.
(Even their ‘golden era’ of some 50~80 years ago everyone for deregulation is so nostalgic about was the era brought upon & maintained by high regulation investments supported by higher top-bracket & profit taxes.)
And it’s not like regulation is even bad for economy overall (even financially looking), it’s just had for the current businesses in power (and even that only for short term gains). So minority’s whims rule undisputed over the majority & ecology.
We could make EMU membership a condition for their EU membership … if that isn’t too risky for € at this point.
(… must not yo mamma joke …)
Thx for interacting! :)
Ohh, that makes total sense, but I didn’t figure it out! (Couldn’t see it bcs I wrote it.)
And even with plural in minimums I could have added a few more words in there to make it a bit easier to read anyway.
Communication is hard, I’m abusing Lemmy comments just to maintain my poor skills :) (it kinda helps honestly, at least for some stamina).
Yes, I know, in my county too.
Neat info, didn’t know about the first year.
Where did I imply you have to take all vacation days?
I’ve said a proportion, gave and example (two weeks or 10 workadays), and even posted a chart of proportion of people per country that actually use up all their vacation days. Eg 35% of Norwegian workers don’t use all their vacay days.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.
I absolutely want to know where I shop & who I vote for with my wallet (make profit for).
If that company is shitty to workers I’ll def try to avoid it.
Worker rights endeavours arent something to hide & dilute.
And yes, the employer needs to take into account customer view too (which they do).
Yes, but usually they do it by other means as to not driving the bus (or they don’t drive the buses only for a limited time within the strike).
But countries differ a lot in regards what is basic infrastructure.
(Lol, typo, I meant doctors there, fixed.)
Yes, true, I looked for a better one but gave up :( (mid meeting at the office).
But overall productivity isn’t actually an issue, wealth concentration is, saying more work-hours are needed is such a shitty approach (well, there are much shittier ones too, def!).