Denmark is set to have the highest retirement age in Europe, after lawmakers voted to raise it to 70.

In addition, Denmark has the highest top personal income tax rate in Europe in 2025, at 55.9%.

So I guess this is actually great news for everyone here that loves paying taxes, as now they get to do it even longer! Bummer all the people making a decent living off of these taxes (politicians) won’t participate. Who could have seen that coming?

Wait, who actually likes paying taxes?

//edit: Forgot I’m on Lemmy. I’ll show myself out, comrades.

You are right, I am speculating, as was the poster of the parent comment. I certainly didn’t mean to muddy any waters, but you have to admit that there have been things going on within the EU, that paint a bit of a bleak picture of how the table might turn if the EU had greater influence/power (in terms of aforementioned platforms and software) on the global stage.

And while you’re right that the examples I gave didn’t become actual law just yet, it’s certainly not due to the EUs benevolence that proposals didn’t materialize, but instead very much like in Mozilla’s case, that the outcry from people had them reconsider.

However, I believe there were proposals that were put into law even though the outcry was there. (eg. Article 13?)

European companies and governments regrettably aren’t better, they simply don’t have that many eyes on them because, well, they don’t have much to show for to begin with. Name a production-ready made-in-Europe browser/browser-engine. Name a widespread European messenger. A European smartphone platform? European Facebook or Twitter? Anything?

Even the few small scale European examples that you might come up with had an absurd amount of controversy to them. Remember that Tutanota thing? Remember Chat Control?

The reason people believe that Europe is so much more privacy respecting than the US is simply because there aren’t many services to exercise the same level of invasive, authoritarian control over than in the US. If 60% of the world however would be using a Nokia minäPuhelin you would see the same, if not worse, privacy-invasive regulation and controversy popping off every other week.

Couldn’t show them, the rules said no NSFW.

You never own an iPhone, regardless of how you purchase or rent it. Try repairing it, try installing software outside of Apple’s control on it, try to turn off features you don’t like/want. You don’t own any Apple product, you use them and you’re at the mercy of Apple.

“Image restricted due to copyright” should not exist for something that apparently is an important thing in societal knowledge.

As soon as it can properly phone it might be included in such reviews.

Humans need to stop naming things “Snowflake”. We have too many. Perform an internet search with “snowflake SUFFIX”, where SUFFIX is any other term, eg Crypto or Database or Movie, and you will get at least one hit.

I’m a bit sad for Neon Modem Overdrive to not have been included to make it a flat 1.0 on that list. :-)

A.k.a. the EU’s fully accepted, non-blacklisted tax havens.

Hmm, autoshift… keep on talking, sir! Haven’t tried that/didn’t knew it was a thing. So holding down on 2 for x amount of time would input @? Doesn’t that effectively slow you down? Also, how would you laugh in Brazilian Portuguese, if holding down on a key produces another key? kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

That’s what every government official involved in the conspiracy would say! :-) scnr

Thank you! I guess with enough training motor functions will eventually pick up on the c-c-c-c-combos required to type without tripping over every other special character or number. :-) I however feel like below 60 keys every missing key adds one to x where (weeks required to get comfortable with the layout) ^ x, heh. How long did it take you to get fluent?