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If it’s a historical monument you’re stuck with period windows installed by approved contractors (or yourself if you manage to source glass that wouldn’t get you fines for not respecting the historical accuracy the State wants). There’s a reason there’s so many ruins, the rules are insane.

If you’re a rich enough hotel magnate you can buy off the people writing the compliance shit and/or the inspectors, I guess.

Lead helped with the valves not getting as much wear because of specific metallurgy that depended on it. It wasn’t strictly needed, the change occured after cars were already mainstream.

Free software activists in Europe have been saying for decades that it’s a matter of sovereignty and the investments may be painful at first but will end up saving untold amounts of money.

The Marshall plan goodwill has run out now.

Google has every incentive to break reCAPTCHA competitors and/or use botnets to spam anything not protected by reCAPTCHA.

But don’t worry social credit systems where you’re barred from public transport is so dystopian only the Chinese do it.

And in enlightened countries that are France or copied their stupid law: the vultures keeping the boomers alive hooked up to expensive machines can also get the children to pay. Unlimited money hack for victims with more than 2 children.

https://ergol.org/

https://bepo.fr/wiki/Accueil

Was the cop teasing you or did you actually get a fine for this?

Eurovision did the same.

Zulip works fine

Metal contamination in food is a double edged sword as well: if you live in America it’s unlikely you’d ever need selenium supplementation, in Europe there’s basically none in the soil so it’s not impossible to be deficient.

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