Notices by Cogito ergo mecagoendios (elrohir@mastodon.gal)

@EUCommission this you bro? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/eu-car-lobby-aims-for-two-year-delay-of-2025-emissions-targets

@aral Personally I always try to read this as a preventive language to avoid scaring rich people. "we are launching a publicly funded resource but we promise we will not seize your privately run ones unless they really fuck up". I want to think it's not that much that the EU desires for things to be a market, than the need to appease private bankers and The Netherlands least they feel threatened.

@aral capitalism: by seeking increasing profit, free markets converge to satisfy the needs of the people efficiently

everyone who has ever programmed a gradient descent: no it fucking doesn't

@aral Didn't they also recently descalate their mission, from "made with fair trade materials" to "we'll do a best effort to source fair trade materials if possible", IIRC?