And Solaris from Poland

The mines kill large animals too.

And what to do with the waste water from the reverse osmosis (now more contaminated than the input)? And who pays for the water wasted?

That is exactly what happened here. And it doesn’t seem like they (ruling parties and ‘their’ media) have learned anything.

Because politicians and media keep them so. Often polls would show that public is more progressive than the lawmakers (e.g. about abortion laws), but the ruling politicians will still say how Polish people are not ready for such ‘radical changes’ or just how ‘wrong’ that is…

In two years the government hardly delivered anything they promised. And not just because Duda was still a president vetoing everything. No surprise people are disappointed.

That is what I always suspected and why I take my time to uncheck all these.

But that would be cookie for the website I am visiting, not for a dozen of ‘partners’. And these are the ‘legitimate interest’ on-by-default switches I am talking about.

And it should include this mysterious ‘legitimate interest’, or whatever it is called - always on by default in ‘my choices’, even though no one seems to be able to explain what this means. How can I make an informed consent on something that vague?

On the other hand, not ‘Reject All’, but ‘Reject All except functionally necessary’ (which should be precisely regulated by the law), otherwise there will be no cookie to remember our ‘reject all’ choice, which I am sure the corpos would happily use do discourage us from clicking that.

Good excuse. They could just wait for ‘their’ president. We will see how much of those laws will be signed when the ne president takes the office. I am afraid that when they get their own president the law changes won’t be on the table any more. The presidential campaign did not raise my hopes.

The new (current) government promised a lot of improvement, but did very little. And during current presidential campaign (elections this Sunday) they don’t even pretend they care much about LGBT rights.

We do have a successful bus manufacturer (Solaris). Does this count? We also have lots of car parts industry here.

Amazon already makes money on many products that should not be sold, as are fake or/and dangerous. They will still be making money by selling smuggled good. ‘It is not us, it is the independent seller. We just provide a platform. Will still work.’

Most of the time, yes, but not always. Sometimes you actually need local time stored rather than UTC. Simple example: alarm clock. User wants to be waken up at 7:00. No matter if it is summer time or winter time. Even if they travels to a different time zone - still will want to be waken up in the morning. If we store this time as UTC much more unnecessary and error-prone conversions will be needed. Similar issues may arise with other calendar events. Of course, at some point this will be converted to UTC for comparison with actual point in time.

There are lots of systems (embedded, mostly offline, abandoned by its vendor) which are not easily upgradeable and their timezone database cannot be easily replaced. Not everything is a PC getting its regular software update.

Isn’t he supposed to be ‘the left’?

But the same shit is often sold on European (like Polish Allegro) and American (Amazon) platforms. Why is this a problem only when then Chinese do it? The problem is broader, but is often shown us ‘do not buy from Temu or Aliexpress – they are dangerous’ while ignoring the same practices on the Western platforms.

The Western resellers most probably buy in bulk, so ‘de minimis’ rule does not fully explain why the dangerous product are on the market here.

I am all for making the platforms responsible, but why not start here, where enforcing this should be much easier? Or maybe it is not about safety and other regulations, but more about taking down competition?