New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates
New Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates
Why not increase the warranty period for all products? The norm is 1-2 years. That should be at least 5 years, minimum.
It's much harder to plan obsolescence on longer timescales.
Maybe some sort of scheme where manufacturers have to publish the reasons for limitations in expected lifetimes to be verified independently (by some organization like the German TüV) and the warranty is based on that? So if you can't prove that there is a good reason for a washing machine to break (excluding some bits that need to be replaced according to maintenance schedule maybe) before it gets 20 years old the warranty should be 20 years.
It would be cool if laws were made so that products must last X number of years, or the customer gets their money back. LOL That should eliminate planned obsolescence pretty damn quick!
But knowing industry, they'd pour millions into engineering products that last X number years + 1 day to skirt a law like that 🫠
My parents had a washing machine thst lasted decades and was fixed several times, until it finally was not fixable anymore. The next machine they had didn't last much longer than warranty because it just wasn't repairable. I'm hopeful that this sort of regulation makes machines not just last longer, but be repairable for longer.
From the same site:
The Link between Cannabis and Psychosis in Teens Is Real
Sam started high school as a fairly good student with several friends. Over time he began using cannabis daily. He took it a variety of ways, first with friends at parties and then, more and more often, alone. His parents noticed increasingly odd behavior: He blocked the camera on his laptop and placed cardboard over the windows in his room. He stopped showering. He began refusing to go to school. Against Sam’s will, his parents took him to a rehab facility for teens. During the three-week program he was fully abstinent from cannabis, but, disturbingly, his psychotic symptoms got worse rather than better; simply stopping wasn’t enough for Sam to recover.
By the time his family came to my clinic, he had had persistent delusions for more than six months. Sam was fully convinced that the government was following him and constantly surveilling him.
This isn't news but the article is making the usual mistake of looking at THC content instead of THC/CBD/other cannabinoid ratios. Hash has always been higher-concentration than weed, yet noone ever accused it of being worse. We only have a limited number of receptors in the brain, once they're full they're full and maxing them out is not that difficult with any strain that's not bred for fibres.
CBD in particular acts as an antipsychotic, while THC serves up the main head high. Strains got optimised for "clueless teen off the streets is impressed by potency" and thus you got incredibly THC-heavy strains. Education, of course, was severely lacking because of the illegality of it all, and the sensationalist press can't really make headlines out of "in legalised markets you see plenty of CBD-rich strains because informed customers ask for it".
As to the effect themselves, I think it's important to distinguish between genuine "normie smoked too much and lost the plot" and "schizo smoked and their first episode came half a year early". Anecdotally, I wouldn't know, I was weird before and after, quoth the therapist: "Sounds more like self-medication". Cannabis as true cause, and not just flanking factor, seems to be exceedingly rare. Probably rarer than alcohol psychosis if researchers were bold enough to call some of the common delusions in alcoholics psychotic.
Wanna hear my paranoid schizo ramblings? The "Weed causes psychosis" narrative is pushed by big pharma because research on CBD being a good treatment for psychosis is getting more and more conclusive and they won't be making money off it. That, or the science journalism is just shoddy wouldn't be the first time.
This is too easy a joke, but what do expect if the content comes from a scientific American.
tbh probably should have just linked straight to the source release, my bad
Commission rolls out plan to boost circular and efficient products in the EU
In addition, the Commission will introduce horizontal measures to requirements on repairability for products such as consumer electronics and small household appliances. This will include the introduction of a repairability score for products with the most potential, and requirements on recyclability of electrical and electronic equipment.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1071
Well this probably will make things more expensive to produce, and the customer mass will blame the risen prices on the EU.
