HATE:WRECK:PERIL

You only need to know the science necessary for cooking, or maybe the chemicals in cleaning supplies. You will never be in amazement at the building blocks of the world. You don't need to know how stars are formed; you can't even see them where you live. You just need to know the geography of the land you live on. You will never see anything beyond your lot in life. Why learn complex mathematical equations to test your mental skills? You only need to know how to add and subtract when your boss gives you a paycheck. Why learn history - those people have nothing to do with you - you need to learn how to fill out a tax form.

And English class? Everyone knows that books aren't real life. Your boss at your job will never ask you to identify the theme, so you don't need to know how. Humans have composed literature for as long as we've been able to speak, but that's all going to end with you. You only need to know how to do your job. That's "real life."

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Eri: (Aerial) has a synthetic persona modeled after the one and only me.

Seriously, what is her problem?! Who does that and why?!

Lately I've noticed than in recent g-witch spin-offs (like SD Gundam) there's a tendency to separate Eri from Aerial, which I don't really get since the fact that they're one and the same is what makes Aerial/Ericht such an interesting character. In this case, it seems like the writer can't decide the degree of separation between Ericht and Aerial since she has the same personality as this universe's Ericht but at the same time, it's its own thing but it can eventually become an amalgam of Ericht and Suletta at some point, I guess? (Btw, Aerial's "joke" almost gave me a heart attack, it could either foreshadow that Ericht can somehow remotely connect to Aerial or the writer just put this to further stablish that Aerial is her own thing).

I'm with Miorine in this one; Aerial's giving me a headache. Then there's Suletta all like "yeah, if you met my sister this is exactly how it would go".

So yeah, turns out that's the sort of personality that Ericht would develop in ideal circumstances. Guess, she gets it from her mom. Aerial is also cocky and impolite in a way that Suletta isn't. Makes me wonder if Ericht has any sort of people skills or not. (Also I think that Eri's personality in G-witch is different from this one even in the epilogue, but that's a topic for another post).

Anyway:

Sure Suletta. I can't wait to see Miorine getting grilled by Ericht and Aerial in tandem. She won't be able to take it!