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Do you think that OpenAI or Google gives any fucks?

Not exactly. First, a lot of bottles don't have that problem. Sure "most" bottles do but most is produced by few companies that made a bad design. So we only need few companies to fix design for the problem to go away.

Cookies stuff is indeed badly made and should be fixed. The should just mandate websites to accept a http header with relevant option (no-cookies, no-advertisment, no-tracking etc.).

Still, it's not the problem of regulator in itself. Rather, companies are taking advantage of the current version of the law because it's favorable to them - they know most people with quickly accept whatever to close the popup.

Then send a message to the producer. The law requires for caps to be attached but doesn't describe how. I have a water bottle next to me that has a cap connected by one long piece after opening that doesn't touch my face at all when drinking.

Sure, Europe has some red tape that should be removed but don't paint it as some kind of Kafka's universe because it's not that bad. I'm from east side of Iron Curtain and I remember how bad that was.

Also, most of the businesses will do what's needed to be done because the market is big.

Personally, I prefer to live a life in a slightly over regulated place that at least keeps common people in mind than whatever is US turning into.

Our brain main role is not thinking (that's more like a side-effect) but keeping us alive/safe at lowest energy cost. Changes A) are risky B) require energy to adapt. For our hunter-gatherer ancestors, doing things the way that their priors did was pretty good bet usually.

I recommend book "Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain" by Lisa Feldman Barrett where she talks a bit more about that.

On the other hand, trees cool down the area so having lot of them should lead to fewer heat-strokes. Last week we hit 95F in my area and I wouldn't be able to walk my dog if not for the trees.

You haven't been around teenagers, or even humans in general much, huh?

Teaching another person, even an eager one, how to change their behaviour and mental patterns concerning validation and FOMO is a really hard task. It's not knowledge like math or something that you can just pass onto them. It can take months or even years even for pros (psychitrists etc.) to do that. Combine that with the fact that teenagers brains are wired differently (their need to fit it is greater than that of an adult) and their "natural resistance" to adults' teaching and it becomes almost impossible task.