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[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago

Can't wait to see some Teslas upside down at the dealership

[โ€“] maikelthedev@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

A single random picture isn't actual evidence of this happening at all.

[โ€“] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] uis@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] dieTasse@feddit.org -1 points 1 month ago

its still fun thing to see :)

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I saw this in a Canadian article as well.

People check to see if they're American and then turn them upside down so the next person doesn't have to look it up. Not so much a protest as a warning to others who care.

[โ€“] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People are doing the same in Canada with US products.

[โ€“] soupy_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

American here, good.

The rest of the world needs to start competing with the US instead of suckling its teat.

Everyone will be better off for it except for the conmen taking America for a ride right now.

[โ€“] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

We should do that to US foods in the US.

[โ€“] CubitOom@infosec.pub 2 points 1 month ago

We should do that to US ~~foods~~ flags in the US.

[โ€“] Oka@sopuli.xyz -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[โ€“] soupy_kid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nah. Americans should stop putting unnecessary shit in their food.

Even our grocery store bread is considered cake because of how much sugar we put in it. It's fucking stupid.

[โ€“] Oka@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 month ago

I agree, but that's a different argument entirely.

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

โ€œthatโ€™s illegalโ€
โ€” Donald

[โ€“] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I could tell this was Lidl just from the font on the prices.

If I want to boycott American, buying Lidl and Aldi own brands is an easy way to do this, yes? I'm doing this by default because I have an easily navigatable Lidl that I can walk to.

[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Lidls owner Schwarz is heavily invested in an Israeli "cybersecurity" start-up run by a former Mossad director. As always with Israeli "cybersecurity" that embraces "former" ties to intelligence, you should expect ongoing ties to Israeli and US intelligence agencies.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923098,00.html

These are the kind of people that helped get Trump elected.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-02-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/cambridge-analyticas-israeli-black-ops-team-exposed-at-last/00000186-4b78-da04-a186-7bfa41fe0000
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza

[โ€“] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I am American and I am doing all my grocery shopping either at Aldi or from farmer markets now. Fuck Musk, fuck Trump, and fuck the US for falling to fascist oligarchy.

Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Democracy

[โ€“] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

I wouldn't do it because I just don't feel like being that akward (it's already akward for me to be in a store).

But I do appreciate it, I do mostly buy store brand products so don't expect i'll be contributing much to the US brands.

[โ€“] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is there a list somewhere of commonly found American products in European supermarket so that I can definitely not do a bit of this..?

I lose track of all the daughter companies and such that one should watch out for.

[โ€“] Mobster@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here is a list that may be helpful

https://files.catbox.moe/jtmcb5.pdf

And if you were not totally against using AI, then you could load that list to Mistral, take a pic and identify things quickly. As per the photo.

[โ€“] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thanks! I find the method interesting. Are the results mostly accurate in your experience?

[โ€“] Mobster@feddit.uk 0 points 1 month ago

I havenโ€™t done any proper validation - was just a very basic PoC, using resources available to anyone (a list of companies and their subsidiary brands + free LLM) to see if it would work in principle.

The file itself is sourced from Wikipedia, so is probably accurate enough if you just wanted to ctrl+f and search manually.