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Yeah yeah the whole volk thing is cringe but I fucking hate proprietary chargers. It used to be worse, there used to be a different charge not just for each brand but for each and every phone within that brand so your old chargers didn't work.
Standardizing is good, don't get me wrong. The phrasing though... ๐ฌ
I have some bad news for you about the vernacular nomenclature of the BRI
First of all, "One Belt, One Road" is missing the third part, the appeal to national unity ("One Europe) which is what makes the slogan in the EU tweet sound like the well known Nazi phrase.
Secondly, it hits very different when it's a European institution led by a bunch of Germans and other people with Nazi or Nazi collaborator ancestry and a generational obsession with destroying Russia that are saying it.
the worst one i remember was a camera (i think? might have been an mp3 player?) i had where between models they changed the shape of the plug slightly so it wouldn't fit and swapped two of the pins so it wouldn't work even if you stripped the plastic off