Bulgaria to join euro area on 1 January 2026

(www.ecb.europa.eu)

257 points toomuchtodo | 1 comments | 09 Jul 25 00:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source

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ReptileMan ◴[09 Jul 25 06:18 UTC] No.44506825[source]▶

Probably a bad idea. The big economies of the eurozone have been in constant stagnation for the last 15 years. To me it seems that Bulgaria has jumped on Titanic on Qweenstown. I do hope that I am wrong, but those are the same people that made the plastic caps permanently attached to the bottles.

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perching_aix ◴[09 Jul 25 06:25 UTC] No.44506864[source]▶

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> but those are the same people that made the plastic caps permanently attached to the bottles

It's still hilarious to me how upset people are at this (or at least pretend to be).

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1. debesyla ◴[09 Jul 25 07:51 UTC] No.44507319[source]▶

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Have you even been in the parks and forests before, haha? :-D At least in Lithuania there were lots of caps lost - half of cleaning up the parks time was bending to pick out caps out of the dirt. Not anymore.

It's similar to free plastic bags or deposit system for bottles. Inconvenience is so tiny that no person genuinely complain about that (not for social karma/attention), but economically when there were millions of bags and half a million bottles sold every day...

To put it into HN-themed metaphor, reducing error log verbosity matters too, when you have millions of lines.

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