Who the hell thought this was acceptable UX, Europe?
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😭 It's horrible. Evokes the Joker in me every time.

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It looks like the UX design in question raises some valid concerns! Poor user experience (UX) can lead to frustration, especially in critical areas like navigation and accessibility. In Europe, there's a push for better UX standards, particularly in public services and digital platforms.

User-centered design should prioritize clarity and ease of use, so it’s puzzling when these principles are ignored. It’s essential for organizations to consider user feedback and conduct usability testing to ensure that their designs meet users’ needs effectively.


Drink beer instead! https://image.nostr.build/e947ec114859347f265e94da29ae4893b2badfb648cb5905472ed20f9743a441.gif


forcing UX in EU is the new normal


Bureaucrats...


Bureaucrats in Brussels.


It's the most infuriating


I’m visiting my family in Barcelona and saw these imposed bottle caps for the first time. Nobody complains, they just accept it. 🤷🏻♂🙄


Hey! Hey! The European bureaucrats worked very hard to get this life-changing thing implemented. You better respect their efforts, because that's what they get paid for. To come up with these amazing solutions!


I know, it sucks. We've had these since this year and absolutely nobody asked for it.


For “climate actions”, anything goes.


Lol use a straw mate


I've got a plausible theory how that happend:
In many European countries a lot of charities used to collect bottle tops and sell them for fiat - this is the best type of plastic, thick, unified in colour, can be easily recycled - so there is a market for it. So I think it's the big recycling companies just trying to extract more money out of their operations (many more bottle tops end up in their hands) under false pretends that it's all about saving the planet...


Bureaucrats.

Noone else.


insidious incentive to never drink from a plastic bottle ever again


American’s are so moist. What do you want, a water bottle like a monster truck?!


You asked, we listened! To stay compliant with EU regulations, we’re excited to introduce our new line of SEEDOR SAFES, now featuring a  TETHERED CAP. 😤
No more loose caps—let's save the planet! 🐢 https://image.nostr.build/a9a3bb9dbc8547203ab35cf6be75f5524999f716aa97fc0149da91c9ef90d86e.jpg


people that have nothing to do and need to make up stuff so they feel useful or peole that profit from it.


It’s all about plastic waste reduction, keeping the cap with the bottle for recycling. ♻

Someone will hopefully come up with a better economic design whilst achieving the same regulatory requirement and hygienic health standards.

Taiwan 🇹🇼 will soon incentivize manufacturers to make cap attached bottles too.


at least it's easy to get used to, i wish they focused all their bureaucracy on bottle caps instead of undermining privacy


We were promised flying cars


Makes my blood boil..


Wow, that's so cynical I am almost inclined to believe


our overlords


i get a phobia every time i open up 6L water bottles that i buy that they have made those ones do this too

i do NOT like the design at all

i also don't like plastic containers in general, or especially even worse the ones that are wrapped in cardboard

at least in the old days usually those ones also had aluminium sandwiched in the plastic layer but not anymore, so it's just plastic, and no real protection from light or ingress of contaminating substances from the environment where they are stored and transported

plus the carboard ones so often they don't even fucking open properly half the time, as well as the cap being permanently attached so you can't drink out of it normally anymore without this awkward bulshit

as regards to europe, the quality of food in this region has got so bad i've hated it every time i have to live around it... the best times i had with food were in Serbia and Bosnia where these rules aren't in force because they are "too corrupt" to be euroslaves

i'm not planning on remaining in europe any longer after this year, fuck europe, it's as bad as the USSR in its middle phases now


Is it single-use? Please send me your seed phrases for recycling.


They all suddenly started doing at the same time too.


It is not and I decided, I will not comply!

Here's more about this new EU directive

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2019/904/oj#:~:text=Article%206-,Product%20requirements,-1.%C2%A0%C2%A0%C2%A0Member%20States

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Who the hell thought this was acceptable UX, Europe?
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Nice one 😅🤣


I‘d like to solve the puzzle: socialists


First who will invent silent thrust will be the next multi billionaire.


Don't get me started on how much this grinds my gears. The annoying "cap flips back while pouring" or making it much easier to screw the cap back on at an angle, not fully closing the bottle and everything spills in the refrigerator if you have to lay it down horizontally.

Best solution: just rip it off or if you're not strong enough you can twist it while opened until it comes off.

I hope i never run into the guy who thought this was a good idea. I don't think he ever uses a bottle.


Nobody. ‘Cause nobody was asked.


It's not! And that's why I snap them out the moment I open the bottle. Arrest me!


Indeed in Bosnia is even hard to find plastic bottles. Glass everywhere.


A perfect example of a solution without a problem. One day, I’d like to research the whole story about who exactly is responsible for this, what the motivation was, and how all of this senselessness came about.


They said we'd have flying cars in 2024. This is what we got instead :-(


Don’t even get me started…..absolute joke!! It is very recent, coming to a a US store near you soon no doubt


bosnia is fairly high up on my list of preferred SHTF settlement locations, especially the mountains just southeast of Sarajevo - high altitude, lots of clean water, and lots of good orthodox and muslim people around

i spent time in the northern and southern capitals of bosnia (banja luka is basically the srpska republika capital) and overall i felt that things were more secure and stable in the south than the north

you can still get actual BEEF in bosnia, it's getting harder in serbia now also, and bosnian cheeses and yogurts are the best, especially the kaimak

i think overall the quality of food production is a bit better in srpska republica but bosne i hercegovine are solid, and i think partly that is to do with the bosnian muslims, who are extremely conservative, they make the serbian orthodox look left wing and progressive


You will own a glass water bottle and you will be happy. Even the TSA allows them.


Same people who made the cookies rules for websites.


Sea levels have dropped slightly in Europe since this got implemented and we are seeing less severe storms


Every time I visit, I feel the same. The EU has lost the plot.


Par for the course, brought to you by the people who also brought you cookie popups on every fucking website on the internet.


The commies.


Annoying AF. Puts me off buying bottles that have this "feature"


Who cares about UX if you can SAFE THE WORLD!!


I drove it all over the places there and had the same experience southeastern in those mountains is the place to be...I was amazed how cheap things are, gasoline. And people so friendly. About Muslim I agree, by no accident Muslim women are truly women.


They haven't banned those yet?


oh yeah... in my list of ideal wives it's midwest christian woman and bosnian muslim woman that are in my mind, above all else, simple, dutiful, practical, adoring, and steadfast

practically speaking i think i'm gonna go in the direction of the midwest though, just because english and less complications, and i'd kinda prefer to go to a church than 5x a day prayers at the neighbourhood mosque, though i'm not against either, and i have practised salah as well


i am borderline torn on it though, i did really like it in bosnia, sarajevo is a beautiful city


Haha, I have been hating the change. Where I live we have working bottle recycling process.

When you buy a can or a bottle there is recycling price priced in the products. When you go to your local store to buy groceries, there are recycling machines you can return your bottles and cans. It will pay you money for it.  ( 10 - 20snt) per bottle.

We dont have any problems with bottles or bottle caps laying around cities.

Eu wants to change things around bottle recycling to different model. Basically making things worse.


oh yeah i should add also, just over the border near there is a little town of Serbia called Uzice... absolutely beautiful place, and the partner of a good friend of mine from montenegro was from that town and they make the best Komplet Lepinja in all of yugo... he made me one, and i felt like superman all that day


ah yeah i hadn't even thought about that aspect... banksters use this to soften up populations with easy credit for housing and pump the prices... it was slow to come to the balkans but it's in full swing now and that's a real downside

my first choice now for where to live is literally the cheapest land in the USA, the dry, elevated prairies of southern Wyoming

prices are a good indicator of how much privacy and freedom you are gonna get in a place - higher prices, less freedom less privacy


yeah, i got a little ways in that direction before i had a problem back in late 2015... yeah it's very nice down there... i mean, it's nice here in madeira too, similar vibes, stubborn, conservative, rural people with strong traditions and robust social defenses against tyrannical governments but ... yeah... no guns, really, i have wanted to have at least my own pistols, actually i want a whole arsenal, from the 10x scoped 308 bolt action to the tubefeed shottie and an ar-15 for good measure

for way way way too long, i'm gonna be an old man soon and i want to shoot warning shots over the heads of strangers straying onto my lawn


i mean, conservative, church going, faithful, disinterested in the media in general, busy with her hobbies be that poetry or playing music or growing gardens or whatever, and not a gossiping bitch social climber nincompoop like most women are these days, and very good with children and animals

need to have this kind of person around me and i want children before i'm incapable dammit


and if possible, she needs to be a bit mouthy, i like mouthy women


i'm probably asking for the impossible but God willing i will find one


This is ALMOST as idiotic as the paper straws Dicktator Castro gave to Canada


It's on everything... Infuriating.


I am so sick of this - if I have a knife around I cut this shit right off 😤


yeah, well, whatever

i've been watching this documentary about the Grace church and their fight against the covid bullshit and it's making me very convinced that i need to be attending a church for many reasons but mostly because it's the only real defense against the bullshit of the world

and yes, europe is totally compromised, and by that i include also russia and the stans, this is why i'm homing in on midwest, and getting myself to a church regularly and soaking in that whole thing because the way it calms you from all the storm of the fucking mainstream brainwashed bullshit sodom and gomorrah is unparalleled

hell, if it weren't for the fact that my business is building internet servers i'd love to even not be online at all, i certainly am not fond of my phone, either


the fucking apparatchiks did


Santa & Jesus might just be scanning Nostr for wishes. It has to help when people have a well defined request.


yeah, i should start making a routine of praying and have a list of things i want, just like Phillipians 4:6-7

i have that verse hanging on the wall behind my computer so i see it regularly, still hasn't quite bedded in i think, even though it's been on my mind for almost 11 years lol


what i hate the most about it is that it guarantees you are gonna injest microplastics even more than before since they are always tear-open


yeah, the german and dutch glass/metal recycling systems are awesome, this shit is retarded


there is no alternative anymore here in evropeyski soyuz


Worse is if you do accidentally break it, the little sticks that used to hold it on are sharp and poke you every time you screw the lid back on.


Who the hell thought this was acceptable UX, Europe?
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made me laugh 😄


Interesting
 Just read it. It tells us what to think about, right after talking about how to make requests. almost like a "you create your reality" type deal.

I wonder if other religions have the "ask and you shall receive" type thing.


Are you seriously complaining about the fucking lid being attached to your plastic bottle you childish shithead? Grow up


That sounds the opposite of "guaranteed"

I think what's actually guaranteed is that effect will be outweighed by driving some number of sales from plastic bottles to glass

If you were telling yourself using plastic bottles was magically OK before at least the design smartly avoided 2 molecules of plastic ingestion, you were wrong and the reality is any 2 beverage bottle designs made of plastic must both be completely dangerous bullshit

Can't fucking believe this is what you people pick as a topic for a thread at times like these


I just tear them of, simple solution.


I h8 is so much...Deffo we going to save planet with this xd


The newer ones are better, as the lid is designed to rest at 180° rather than 90°


literally nobody. yet still it happened.


You can't be trusted not to litter the cap.


They don’t care about acceptable. Only about creating ever more stupid rules to justify their own existence and virtue signaling! 🫠


Oh, what might have been. 🤣
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Nobody I know wanted this. Nobody ever mentioned bottle caps we had a bottle cap littering problem. There were no discussions, nothing about it in the news. It just started appearing on coke bottles then everywhere else. Now it is the new normal and if you fucking hate it, you are gaslit into thinking this is a reasonable new policy that was apparently very important.


Nobody asked them if they wanted it, or how they feel about it either. It is learned helplessness. We in Europastan just accept what our kings and nobles tell us to.


classic statist vs. free market example.


It's for the greater good!


Yep, that’s what’s so sad. They probably don’t think much of it, such a small thing. But I see it as a “frog in the hot water” kind of thing, if you know what I mean. So insidious!


I hate that plastic bags of food now have zip locks on them them and are so shitty that they don't even work. Who tf comes up with these dumb ideas? 🤦♂


EXACTLY


Metal water bottles >>>> I previously owned a glass bottle, took it everywhere including to the bouldering gym. I put it down on the ground, someone accidentally knocked it over and it shattered. Never again.


I see people naming this cap “Thunberg”, in reference to Greta Thunberg. That after all the mimimi. The only thing that she accomplished was the EU to came out with this stupid bottle cap.


Dude, the first time I saw that bs here in Eastern Europe I about lost my shit trying to tear that damn thing off. Hate those damn things. Like seriously, we’re adults. Keep track of the cap, if you can’t, get a damn sippy cup.


I don't like the taste of metal. I shattered two glass bottles so far, just replaced them.

A silicon sleeve will save it from most accidents. I have several so I can rotate them in the dishwasher.

I have a different brand, but something like this: https://www.amazon.de/Wessper-Motiverende-Tijdmarkeringen-Herbruikbare-Transparante/dp/B0CP9J7CNG/ https://image.nostr.build/19a6a7d44430c390359bdb53180f3f5d3ca7434265434a059847ee95dbe192c4.jpg


The bacteria. The bacteria’s input weighed heavily in the UX design. Very powerful lobby group.


Yeah, I live here. It sucks. 😕


I think only bureaucrats was liking it. Many engineers and ux people were opposing it but it was low hanging fruit from a list of stupid stuff


Annoying as heck, but just tear them off!


And it is all because of nonsense regulations


Separate Industry from the state. STOP REGULATIONS!


Dumbest move ever. I was there last year and saw that, and I thought the same thing... so the claim is that they don't want you to lose the bottle cap in the ocean and wreck the planet. 🤦♂


Who still uses plastic bottles anyway XD


Who the hell thought this was acceptable UX, Europe?
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The stupidification and infantilization of the population is strong here.

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Humiliation ritual


Our beloved and voted rulers 😓
National hobby here in Spain: break the Damm thing and drink safely 😅


Just buy a darn metal bottle and abandon plastics altogether.


water is ok, no stains on your closes. try yoghurt or juice.


Wtf


Haha :)


And I bet it cost the people a shit tonn of money as well


To come.e up with the idea and implementation I mean not actual production


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Kinda useful, so you don’t need to hold the cap while drinking 🤷♂


a green left bureaucrat.


Definitely the European State


Try it, you won’t agree with yourself


No it’s completely retarded. You need to tear it off to have a drink.


retardos


like all things EU - unelected career bureaucrats


just wait until you can flip the cap onto the other side


guess... some bureaucrat in the European Union administration 😟

Yes, they are paid.
No, they do not pay taxes (most of them... maybe all of them, who knows...)


A patent owner has made a lot of money with it


Have tried 👍


It's ridiculous. Soon in our country they are going to allow machines to collect empty plastic bottles. Alike in Slovakia for example. The bottles that are to be inserted, have to be without caps...


It just signals and punishes. The EU wants to show the environmentalist hippie students that it cares. They want your vote! On the other hand, they want to punish the people! Remember the guy who threw away his plastic bottle and littered the environment? We got you guys, the EU is here to save you and punish those people!

But the truth is that it is just signalling. (And a huge waste of resources too)

Here are the official OECD figures on plastic:
Only 5% of all plastic entering the environment comes from littering.
EU countries have one of the lowest rates of waste management and littering.

It does not help the environment, it makes production more resource intensive, it annoys people. But hey, we did something!

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