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Europeans can vote to have birds on their next banknotes (swg-empire.de)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/birding@lemmy.world
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Every European (and I guess non-Europeans as well) can vote what our next Euro design will be: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/

About ten different designs are available and about half of them feature birds instead of boring people.

I really like the bird designs as they symbolise freedom without borders. Hope one of them gets chosen in the end.

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[–] 5 points 3 months ago (12 children)

Explain the joke plz?

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    The EU introduced a policy mandating that plastic lids must be permanently attached to bottles, which came into effect a year or so ago.

    The law has been controversial. While some hail it for keeping the environment free of lids, others find the attached lids cumbersome.

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  • [–] 24 points 3 months ago

    Personally, I feel that the lid is not cumbersome at all (just flip the lid over and drink from the other side to avoid splashing?), and having fewer lonely bottle caps littered everywhere is generally quite good!

    And if people dislike the lids enough to avoid drinking from single-use plastic bottles, hey, that's another benefit! Especially for regions where the tap water is drinkable (e.g. Germany)

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    It’s a PET bottle lid that is attached to the bottle so you don’t lose it, a unique piece of their culture I guess lol

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    And an annoying one. Gets in the way, and makes screwing the cap back on harder because it keeps pulling it.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    User error. There's one extra screwing that people don't do

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    I did this once or twice by accident. Would you be so kindkind as to explain?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    After the cap is open, it can be twisted once more to extend

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    In the EU, water bottles are required to have the cap connected to the bottle (reduces waste of the bottle caps)

    It's quite interesting, when you go to a non EU governed area (like Norway or the Faroe Islands) the bottles no longer have the cap connected to the plastic ring bit

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