@mattgrayyes This is the kind of problem, the EU is really good at. Legal E-Bikes should have a standard charge connector (SCC) (USB-C). The market should compete to make the smallest charger for this standard, mains electricity socket to SCC. Cafes, service stations, car charger companies, trains should compete to implement the standard so all the rider has to carry is a cable.

RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116108349700425602

@cstross

> The class war has turned hot. And we're all on the losing side.

And the ever present,

- Workshy sick note culture with rise in sickness from all kinds of diseases since 2020

and the related

-A&E departments overloaded due to people turning up with a sniffle with rise in sickness since 2020 combined with inadequate frontline health care and inadequate backend recuperation care.

Conflating one problem with another.

- Immigrant controls with Asylum Seeker controls. Mahmood

- Antisemitic incidents in UK with Anti-Israel incidents. CST

- Work from home flexible working with rage farming white collar- blue collar inequality. Farage

- Brown-Mandelson rewriting history with Brown as some "adult in the room" elder statesman with Brown-Mandelson's PFI, Iraq, Corporate welfare

And the videos. Who can forget, "Trump Gaza" and "Trump Fighter Pilot King".

We need to make "Slopaganda" the word of 2025. And kill it in 2026. And it's not just, or maybe even mostly, about images.

The Slopification of Everything?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/29/the-slopaganda-era-10-ai-images-posted-by-the-white-house-and-what-they-teach-us