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BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Trump threatens to impose additional 100% tariff on ChinaEnglish
5·6 months agoWhy did you use a picture from 2019? That’s, like, 2 or 3 strokes ago, and a reversal of dementia?
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•ICE recruitment ads air on UFC, WWE programmingEnglish
6·6 months agoThe ones on WWE probably promise a chance to meet Trump in person at the White House ring for his birthday. But only if you are physically fit and attractive looking.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Repeated deadly cough syrup scandals pose hard questions for India’s drug regulatorsEnglish
3·6 months ago“Hard questions.” Bull shit. The “question” is to make great profit selling to the most populous country with proper safe guards. Or to make astronomical profits by selling a knowingly tainted product that kills people.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Repeated deadly cough syrup scandals pose hard questions for India’s drug regulatorsEnglish
2·6 months agoIn the US, isn’t that what the UL (Underwriters Laboratories) electrical designation is? A separate entity that certifies?
I think it is separate from the government.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL_(safety_organization)
Unlike Energy Star, which is part of the US government’s EPA, and thus it was, or was threatened with, reduced in capacity by Trump.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Denmark leads large military exercise in Greenland, without USEnglish
18·7 months agoSmart. 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.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Workers at Brazil's Embraer begin indefinite strikeEnglish
5·7 months agoGood! Good luck to the workers!
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UNEnglish
1·8 months agoYou’re changing the subject.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UNEnglish
4·8 months agoWait, you’re taking something Trump said as the truth?
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•25 countries suspend postal services to U.S. over tariffs: UNEnglish
10·8 months agoTaxes do not pay for the USPS. The USPS is fully funded by itself.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Hershey Raising Candy Prices by Double Digits on High Cocoa CostsEnglish
31·9 months agoHershey’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.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Hershey Raising Candy Prices by Double Digits on High Cocoa CostsEnglish
51·9 months agoThis 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?
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Louisiana hospitals press Johnson over megabill Medicaid cut proposalsEnglish
7·10 months agoRacist Americans are getting their appetite whet seeing brown people getting hurt, and are on the edge of their seat waiting to see Black people get hurt.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Minimum wage set to rise in 15 cities and states in July. Here's where.English
2·10 months agoYay. Keep it going. More states and higher income.
Or, you know, the ultra, ultra rich could pay more taxes. That’s the trade off.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why does it feel like protesting isn't as "extreme" as it used to be?English
48·10 months agoThe big, well reported protests were the result of decades, nay centuries, of protests.
Sit-in protests were common.
Rosa Parks was, by far, not the first Black person to be arrested for keeping her seat.
Hundreds of thousands of workers died or were hurt in preventable dangerous workplaces and labor protests.
It is hard and costly to go against the government.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked OutEnglish
12·10 months agoRacists are so bad they won’t even allow Black people to volunteer to defend the America.
Racists are so bad and afraid of brown people that white America racists are removing child labor laws to prefer to have their own white children working in fast food instead of in school learning just so that they don’t see a brown adult.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•New Army Shaving Policy Will Allow Soldiers with Skin Condition that Affects Mostly Black Men to Be Kicked OutEnglish
56·10 months agoFirst the racists said that Black people were born for physical labor. Then the racists said that Black people were not good enough to do physical labor to defend the country. Racist people are horrible.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Why you shouldn't go to Best Buy storesEnglish
2·10 months agoRewards points are 5%, not 15%.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
News@lemmy.world•Trump is ending trade talks with CanadaEnglish
3·10 months agoObama could have gotten a deal.


It was 21%, so it bugs me they used the word “flooded.”