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@veroxii @neo2478 right, and in terms of PDO there's not much Europe could retaliate with. What is there? Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey? I think those are the only geographical indicators they have. But Cory Doctorow came up with some good ideas. The EU has already brought in alternative app stores but I'm sure there are some other tech & IP considerations https://www.pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

@9488fcea02a9 @ForgottenFlux I remember reading a whole article about how Samsung now just shoves a hi-res picture of the moon on top of pictures you take with the moon in so it looks like it takes impressive photos. Not sure if the scandal meant they removed that "feature" or not

@treefrog @RememberTheApollo high on their own supply, though. A lot of government regulation is there to make sure the plebs feel just happy enough that they don't rise up. I'm not advocating anything, just to be clear, but if people have nothing to lose then they start... trying stuff. Wasn't the final straw that started the French Revolution the price of bread?

@Fredthefishlord @QuarkVsOdo all his companies basically exist to siphon off government funding that should be going to something more worthy. In the case of SpaceX, look what's happening to NASA now. And with the Hyperloop, he openly said he promoted that to take attention and money to prevent the development of high speed rail

@EncryptKeeper @OhVenusBaby I have very much embraced the swearing method to get rid of 50% of my Google result screen being taken up by an untrustworthy statement. Just a waste of space and scrolling time.

@Gigameister @Novocirab I am on both but have basically left Bluesky for here. It was too stressful there... And I can follow Lemmy conversations

@F04118F @Blaze unrelated to toothbrushes but we have a L'Or coffee machine made by Philips (so, full Dutch I think) and so far it's been great, if de-Nestleing Nespresso is important to anyone

@BaroqueInMind @bleistift2 pacifist because the org literally exists to stop everyone in it blowing each other up though

@caos @vesi waving from mastodon

@Aux @neo2478 KitKat was also British (Rowntrees) but it's now Nestle except the US where it's Reese's (Hershey's)

@Aux @neo2478 it might have started in the UK but it's owned by Mars and I'm pretty sure they sell a US one

@halffiction @TTH4P the theory is it's butyric acid (in the UK everyone thinks Hershey's tastes like vomit too and lots of our milk chocolate is quite low cocoa content) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hersheys-chocolate-tastes-like-vomit/_l/_60479e5fc5b6af8f98bec0cd

@catloaf @thebeardedpotato I go one further and subscribe to feeds in mastodon (feel a bit like an impostor though 👀

@Blaze this is probably down to a technical difference in how we're reading "tempted to"!

@Blaze @vesi the last convo on buyfromeu that I saw said that it was explicitly for EU companies (as the name suggests). So that does mark out buyeuropean as different.

@FireRetardant @grue in the UK we're not even allowed billboards on motorways as they would be a distraction. Ads in the car sounds insane.

@dkc @telegrammarian it's owned by Elliott Management https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/96873-five-years-in-at-barnes-noble-james-daunt-says-he-s-not-done-yet.html

@JacksonLamb @SPRUNT 'American cheese' is a specific type of cheese. I think the closest thing we have in the UK, we'd call 'plastic cheese' but even Kraft cheese slices/Kraft singles aren't 'American cheese' as they have extra milk in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American/_cheese

@a887dcd7a thanks. I didn't think of that!

@Zacryon @a887dcd7a here's one from last year, so a bit more up to date https://quartr.com/insights/company-research/the-consumer-goods-sector-housing-the-worlds-most-known-brands