All it would take would be a platform that handles the payment and supplies a tracking pixel. Websites could join and become part of it. At the moment, every single publisher has their own payment solution. If I want to read one local article from Houston today and one from Tokyo tomorrow, I won’t join two payment plans. I want them to be paid automatically, like when I play a song on Spotify or watch a video on YouTube. Just a decent amount of money instead of paying mostly middlemen.

Unpopular opinion: The missing business model for websites is killing the web. If there was a platform that would distribute a monthly fee to the websites we visit, the web would be much better.

50% could be allocated through traffic, 50% by choice. I could pay 20€ a month for example. Some would go to lemmy, some to my local newspaper, some to my favorite YouTube channels, authors or bloggers.

If enough people did this, investigative journalism would be funded, product testers wouldn’t be reliant on sponsoring and hobbyists could gain serious funding without selling out.

I only used Apple for a very short time, but their connector seemed pretty neat. Small and with satisfying haptics. Too bad they are so shitty about patents and standards.

Don’t American cars have a start stop automation that stops the engine as soon as the car isn’t driving? Or are they also disabling it?

It doesn’t solve the problem of rising rent. People already owning their property are not affected by this and can profit off rent increase.

As long as people can’t afford their first home, your cabin is not a priority. Plus, what’s the cost of that cabin? If it’s cheap, the tax increase won’t mean a huge increase in total numbers.

Is that a vape brand?

You’re describing symptoms, the commenter above you spoke about the causes.

People voted Tories and are frustrated by what they delivered. People then voted Labour and will be frustrated by what they deliver. Then they might move to the next party.

Plus people feel neglected. They want attention and the feeling of being important. Right wing populists are very successful in doing that, just like an abusive partner. People know it’s bad for them, but they feel like they are taken care of.

There are some, but not nearly as many as I would expect when looking at price performance ratio.

It takes time to build trust.

Exactly. So many of the new manufacturers have already dropped out, including companies like Fisker that had US funding and production in the EU. That scares people. I wouldn’t want to buy a car that does not boot up because the servers went offline.

So far Chinese cars have been adopted really slowly in Germany. People don’t really trust the manufacturers.

Insurance premiums will be adjusted. Plus people will avoid buying Teslas if there are too many attacks on them.

That being said, I think there are smarter ways to fight for democracy.

I’d love to have people move over to other apps. But here in Germany it’s nearly impossible to have a messenger group on any other app than WhatsApp. Everybody is on there. For every other app there will be someone not having it installed. It doesn’t matter if 80% are on Signal, 80% in Threema and 80% on Telegram. 100% are on Whatsapp and that’s what the group will be using.

If it’s quality furniture you can sell or donate it. If it’s recent Ikea or other cheap stuff, it won’t survive being disassembled, moved and reassembled. Ikea’s surfaces scratch so easily, even on desks. It’s ridiculous. That kind of fast furniture is terribly unsustainable. But I wouldn’t be bothered if you bought a new sofa every ten years and make someone else happy with a used sofa that will last another ten years in it’s new home.

My first Led for a regular lamp at home was an Osram for nearly 20€. It died after ca. 3 years. After that Ikea had launched their cheap LEDs and I started buying them. I can’t really say how long each of them lasted, but I moved and started reusing them in different lamps. I guess most of them are over 5 years old by now. Every now and then one of them dies but my subjective feelings is that they offer great value.

I only use IKEA, and they last forever for me.

Lower revenues for residential property means lower prices for land. It means lower prices for buying houses and makes it cheaper for people to own their house or flat. If you are a developer that builds properties, you sell them to individual owners that live there instead of institutional investors like corporations or real estate funds. Wealth tax only applies for people that own big estates. When done well it does not apply to people that own their own property or rent out a few flats.

That way, super rich people that look for investment opportunities for their enormous wealth make less profit with real estate and move towards other assets. Land owners (who are usually really wealthy themselves) and large investors are the only losers here, and that’s exactly the intention.

We pay for using that capital. We pay rent, we pay for groceries, we pay for gas. Everytime we pay something, somebody makes money. Tax them.