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  • This happened with appliances. They ended up with the silly A++++ ratings added in 2010 as otherwise everything would be an A.

    In 2021 they decided to redefine grades instead. A fridge at A+++ became a C. A became the top grade again.

    It’s also worth noting that as they push the whole scale and G into being more efficient that essentially bans products that can’t achieve a rating.

    if everything becomes an A the system has worked and increased the efficiency across the market. They’ll adjust the goals every 5 to 10 years.

    The EU battery life measure is going to be the most interesting battle ground in my opinion. “All day battery life” will have a measured metric in hours.

    If the EU have managed to make that metric representative of an amount of screen time in a busy day it could become the first thing consumers look at. Or at least a deal breaker when that number is too low.



  • You could afford a house and got a free or cheap education

    The state has sold off everything in your lifetime to keep your taxes low, including housing. Which you bought and now own.

    Millennials are generation rent with a government renting back what it sold as taxes rise.

    And the cold war is still going on, what is it about Gen X that makes them think it stopped. Putin is at war in Europe right now. The cold war only ever paused.

    Proxy wars didn’t stop with Vietnam, the cold war didn’t stop with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

    You get to experience the events of the world while being comparatively rich.

    You got to experience the only decade or so without a cold war threat while millennials experience the threat of Russia and an increasing threat from China.

    And millennials were told as children the world would burn if we did nothing. Gen X and the Boomers did nothing.

    Yes it sucks.

    But you had it good, and politically you’ve fucked us recently. After being previously politically apathetic.

    We’ve got a world to repair and it remains to be seen if Millennials will actually move past apathy into fixing it with Gen Z or continuing to fuck it up like Gen Z.