Covid gave the whole world a chance to try something different. The only changes I’m aware of from that were regressions.
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Are you saying that future people will study us for what NOT to do?
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
Buy European@feddit.uk•Ukraine Is Purchasing Swedish Gripen E Fighter Jets And Building Its Own Air Fleet Of 100–150 AircraftEnglish
21·6 months agoSave Ukraine!
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Europe@feddit.org•EXCLUSIVE: EU mulls copying US with end to aid for global health funds | EuractivEnglish
11·6 months agoThe 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.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
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
Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Floating point arithmeticsEnglish
36·6 months agofl_numerator = 1
fl_denominator = 3
And division is a “stretch goal” once we get funding.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
Political Memes@lemmy.world•Boost, repost, & share: Boycott DisneyEnglish
4·7 months agoReaching 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.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
Europe@feddit.org•Medicine shortage in EU set to drag on, auditors say | dpa internationalEnglish
1·7 months agoHe 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.worldto
Europe@feddit.org•Unfair competition? Worries about European road safety after EU-US trade agreementEnglish
41·8 months agoThe 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.worldto
Europe@feddit.org•Pride With Pride! Stop Mass Surveillance at Pride, Stop Face Recognition Now - [Petition]English
1·10 months agoAre you depending on Hungary’s modern and authoritarian-leaning surveillance state to be 10+ years behind? Consumer-grade Face Id on phones and computers uses infrared light.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
Europe@feddit.org•Pride With Pride! Stop Mass Surveillance at Pride, Stop Face Recognition Now - [Petition]English
4·10 months agoThis goes over how infrared light see through a lot of disguises.
How to Block Facial Recognition Cameras (IRL Tested!) - Business Reform https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRFeS72IM6M
I’m not saying his method are the best way to stay anonymous, just that he demonstrates how hard it is to stay anonymous.
BigMikeInAustin@lemmy.worldto
Europe@feddit.org•Pride With Pride! Stop Mass Surveillance at Pride, Stop Face Recognition Now - [Petition]English
21·10 months agoThis seems to be just visible light. Infrared light facial recognition sees through all of the makeup and dark sunglasses.
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.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Why you shouldn't go to Best Buy storesEnglish
2·10 months agoRewards points are 5%, not 15%.


Since I’m out of free articles, I’m going to guess the plan is to put spacecraft on that huge volcano on Mars so when it blows, the spacecraft will be shot out into space crazy fast!