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They already do. So you have no idea how it would be implemented.
If they would go voluntarily, why haven't they already?
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Former British and French diplomats urge action over Israel’s ‘erasure’ of Palestine
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They already do. So you have no idea how it would be implemented.
If they would go voluntarily, why haven't they already?
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Australian officials warn of 'destructive' US move to 'dismantle' ICC
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Not gonna lie. That's not the first time that one has got me..🙂
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Australian officials warn of 'destructive' US move to 'dismantle' ICC
Why such Dismay? With the ICC out of the way, Trump and his buddies can act with impunity. Netanyahu gets away with Genocide.
I'm not sure what he actually thinks would happen with the ICC gone though.
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I smell corporate hypocrisy…
But if they're using it for their ai, won't they be seeding it from them on? I mean, you might not be able to download an entire book in one go, but you may be able to after 100 questions, or something similar..
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Its common knowledge that Trump is watching Israel, and they are in turn helping in the middle East, but so what?
Trump may have, the rest of the world might have been backing them to a degree but the genocide is too much. Trump is an idiot and the rest of the world already know it.
HOW WOULD YOU GIVE GAZA TO ISRAEL? Repeating that they would leave voluntarily is bullshit.
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The ICC has no enforcement power. Trump wants to dismantle the ICC.
It's fine not knowing how the ICC works, but who gives a shit if Trump wants to dismantle it? Unless you mean that the ICC has no jurisdiction on US citizens (no matter where they are in the world) unless they have committed crimes of atrocity, so Trump and Netanyahu may try to make him a US citizen again (3rd time is a charm), but his war crimes would likely overrule any help that the US tried to give him, also, Trump only really has 3 years left in office. It would take him longer than that to dismantle them. He has already sparked a massive movement towards EU digital sovereignty after he imposed sanctions and blocked the ICC judges cards and (allegedly) ordered microsoft to disable their emails.
There is no point in you repeating "Palestinians would be given land equivalent to Gaza" etc. Unless you are going to say how you plan on making this happen.
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Cheeky Afternoon Snack ;)
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So your genius plan is to reward Israel by giving them Gaza?
Should Trump develop it seeing as he already has the plans?
It didn't occur to you that Israel should be made to pay for all of the destruction and deaths that they have caused with all of their illegal activities?
What should happen to Netanhayu? Maybe build him a gigantic castle on the highest peak of Gaza so that he can look down over what he has done, and give him free reign over the rest of the world to see if he has plans to 'fix' anywhere else he sees fit.
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The ICC will eventually deal with most of it.
How do you plan to give Gaza to the genocidal Dirtbags?
I can't imagine there's a court in the world apart from a Trump orchestrated one, that will agree to that.
The backlash alone would be deafening.
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Rubio Promises Cuba a Better Future — in a Box
Trumps protection racket in action.
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‘They’re thinking about the likes’: deadly TikTok motorway trend horrifies Ireland
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There was another a few days before it.
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First and foremost, I would get all those in charge tried for war crimes.
Those 'following orders' - war crimes.
I would demand that they rebuild Gaza - which Israel are planning on doing anyway - but for Palestinians.
Remove any funding that they get, any and every weapons that they receive or have received should be stopped and revoked (whatever is left of them).
Order them to pay compensation to all of those in Gaza and the West Bank to let them somehow try to rebuild their lives (whatever is left of them).
Remove all 'settlers' out of Gaza and the West Bank.
Remove dual citizenship from every Israeli citizen that has it. Either one or the other, if that is non-negotiable, remove their non-Israeli citizenship.
Continue that temporarily for 50 years at least. The Israeli groups that are lobbying the world over, are a huge part of the problem.
That would just be for starters, and that is off the top of my head.
They would be lucky that the current world probably wouldn't allow the death penalty on most of them.
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Jury refuses to convict seven Palestine Action 'organisers' for Israeli arms factory raid
The incident took place at the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and before Keir Starmer’s government had implemented any restrictions on arms exports to Tel Aviv.
It should read
The incident took place at the height of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and before Keir Starmer’s government had implemented any secret plans to imprison people protesting genocide and label them as terrorists without the jury knowing
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New EU 'handling fee' due to come in will 'likely' apply to each item within a parcel
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import in bulk, pay the €3 fee even if it's for 100 items.
Pay the new handling fee (whatever it ends up being)
Markup 600% and sell on Amazon with Amazon cut added in.
Make some money, make Jeff Bezos a trillionaire.
Jeff Bezos hides taxes from the EU and US, everyone's a winner.
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Open acces to old.reddit.com now gone for me on all devices.
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I think old Reddit was the older style, but also less scripts/tracking running on the pages.
idk if a script blocker would work on the nag. On my desktop I was trying to view something and used ublock origin element picker to block the nag and allow me to view the site, but I can't seem to get it to work properly on mobile (even on desktop mode) it seems to be disabling ublock from working.
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They will likely have a larger warehouse in Bulgaria with most staff (lowest minimum wage in EU)
I think (not sure) that the minimum wage in Bulgaria is around €600.
Then maybe Latvia or Hungary.
They already have much smaller distribution warehouse around Europe that they can use after that.
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You've answered your own question.
Is there actually any good way to complain about this garbage?
Start following any parties that advocate for direct democracy in your area. Maybe with anarchy being the final goal, finally getting rid of the middle-people.
But baby steps, The idea that a teeny, teeny, tiny amount of people can dictate everything and let it dribble down to our local overlords to enforce it is ridiculous.
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In Ireland it's €6.65 or similar for 'handling' charge + vat (tax).
it works out at €8.50 per parcel (not per item). Only applicable if the seller hasn't already charged the vat + €3 at their end. So this new rule could be a reduction in Ireland.
But as you already mention, the Chinese sellers will start opting into the platform options to use their EU warehouse.
This will only really be a headache for the other European countries no longer in the EU, like UK, as much of their stuff is already priced fairly high coming into EU anyway, and an extra possible €5 per item mightn't help.
Chinese items from EU warehouse will probably mean quicker shipping.
But, the items will possibly be €5 more anyway, as the shipping won't be subsidised like it is from China.
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What is “an item”? If I order a bag of 100 screws, is it 200€ handling fees?
No. if all items in the parcel are classed as the same, then they will only be charged once - €3 + €2 handing.
What about a kit for a 3d printer? Is it 2€ for every item in the kit or is it 2€ once?
It will likely be €3 for every item in the kit, but it is yet unclear if the handling fee will be for each item or for the parcel as a whole. Unless the kit is classed as one item like a set, or jigsaw etc.
If it is once, why would you punish people if they want to purchase all the things separately? And what stops the seller from declaring everything one customer buys as a “kit”?
I'm sure items will be examined to check if they are kits. I don't know how. There are 'science toys' that come ready to assemble, Lego etc. I doubt they would charge for each individual item.
The current charge of €3 that was implemented on July 1st is per different item.
This new charge is unclear which it will be (per item, or per parcel).
But.
If the seller adds the €3 tax at the checkout per item, then it's probable that there will be no handing fee.
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Yeah, thanks I corrected it to read "different item"
As it says here per item
I believe it is only if the items are declared as different by the seller.
for example 3 pairs of socks and a pair of shorts could be packaged as the same items, in one package, yet in another as two different items.
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What ‘item’ stands for
The 3 € fee is applied per declared item, where ‘item’ means each unit of a product that is declared on a separate line. Specifically, the Commission defines "item" as one or more goods in a consignment sharing the same tariff classification, description and, where applicable, origin. However, due to the limitations of current IT systems, the tariff of €3 will be automatically applied per declaration line, regardless of the number of items included in that line, provided that the total intrinsic value of the shipment does not exceed €150.