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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:39AM (#30662194)
> iphones don't have replaceable batteries but people keep buying them because they don't see that as important.

Primarc clothing sometimes comes with scraps of paper 'Help, i am being kept as a slave', but people keep buying it. That tells us they don't see slavery as important.

On the contrary, the fact that they were willing to die to end slavery doesn't tell us anything.

Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by varajelle on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:56AM (#30662403)
> Primarc clothing sometimes comes with scraps of paper 'Help, i am being kept as a slave',

I've never heard of that and couldn't find any reference to it with a internet search.

Edit: found it: https://metro.co.uk/2015/12/11/girl-finds-cry-for-help-note-...

Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by ClumsyPilot on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:12PM (#30662605)
The point is not spesifically about primarc, there are many products that awere produced with slave labour, from conalt mining to cotton in the 1700s and people keep buying them