BigMikeInAustin

joined 2 years ago
[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Save Ukraine!

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

The people that cry about immigrants will start to see more criminal immigrants coming if only the wealthy countries have vaccines.

All the big corporations fighting to get into developing countries will see their market share and profits fall as the populations die off without aid.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Reaching a real person at any of these companies' call centers will cost the company real money.

(It can also hurt the statistics of the call center employee, so it's morally wishy-washy)

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Smart. The US is going to become an enemy of most of Europe, and already has said the US wants to take over Greenland.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Good! Good luck to the workers!

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

He also emphasized that for common painkillers such as paracetamol and ibuprofen, the EU is entirely dependent on Asia.

One of the main causes of shortages, the auditors in Luxembourg noted, is weakness in supply chains.

Additionally, the EU's internal market for medicines is fragmented and free trade is restricted.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You're changing the subject.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Wait, you're taking something Trump said as the truth?

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Taxes do not pay for the USPS. The USPS is fully funded by itself.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The US does not require the turn indicator to be a separate light from the brake light.

The US has almost no current cars with an orange turn indicator on the rear. The red brake light doubles as both.

When US cars are made for other countries, the separate orange light is added.

America only has 2nd or 3rd world consumer protection.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hershey's has had many reasons to be boycotted over the decades. I'm not aware of any of those reasons being corrected by the company.

I am completely against what Israel is doing to Palestine and against the colonization and genocide being done.

This instance of Hershey's doing business in Israel is a very weak reason to boycott. There are many other obvious reasons to boycott Hershey's.

[–] BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (5 children)

This is true.

This is the basis for taxing high sugar convenience food. It was done for cigarettes, and today, consumers overwhelmingly see it as a good program. (Of course tobacco companies lobbied hard against it)

Should there be a line on which products governments deincentivise? High sugar convenience foods have their purpose, but does it outweigh increasing obesity? Should we instead subsidize healthy foods? Or both together?

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