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My concern here is that serviceability and recyclability should be severable issues.

If a glue process makes it easier for automated recapture vs a mechanical friction retainer, but impedes the ease of repair, recycling should supersede repair.

I’m not an engineer and haven’t done any research on this, just wondering out loud about the trade offs.

I do know that for a building, because of the sunk energy costs, prevailing theory is that you try to rehabilitate the existing structure as much as possible rather than tear it down. Even if that’s less cost-effective for the owner. Because it’s more effective for the environment. (Although there’s still a fair bit of debate on the trade-offs, and that’s a good thing.) I’m also unaware of whether the EU mandates a specific remedy vs leaving it to local concerns. However, the EU tends to come off as 100% prescriptive in these matters vs trying to develop new methods of accomplishing similar aims. Whether that’s objectively true or not, I can’t say.

Regarding the perceived anti-EU bias, the EU protects many of its industries and businesses (and jobs) to the detriment of consumers world-wide. This is why you get push back from a lot of North Americans. They’re fully aware of the hypocrisy. The pro-EU gang come off as willfully ignorant of this, and a dash of humility wouldn’t hurt. North Americans need to more forgiving in that this is a messy, uneven process towards desirable goals, one that will always involve trade-offs. We’re prone to offering up way to much whataboutism in order to avoid responsibility. A dash of humility wouldn’t hurt here either. (Also, being mindful that Europeans aren’t any more monolithic than folks from the States wouldn’t hurt. Nor would an acknowledgment that the U.S. has at times force-fed Europeans its own solutions, leaving some lingering resentments.)

Much of the friction here revolves around differing philosophies and political concerns. It puts us way too far apart on way too important an issue. It’s unfortunate in that we’ll all be taking a gamble on the outcome over the coming years and decades.

Sometimes it's pretty clear AI is... let’s put it politely... repurposing content first reported elsewhere, and not always with attribution. Are you sherlocking those original sources? Or just adding your take on ideas being widely discussed? (And not at all interfering with someone else’s ad revenue. Or making their paywall superfluous.)

If we want to read anti-Apple slop, there’s still plenty of PC sites (and people) who will offer up an ample supply.

Do better.