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Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump
(www.theguardian.com)
Just do long as they don't flock to Nestlé
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Nestlé is a Swiss company. Given how much they have their fingers in the global food production and trade, i wouldn't be surprised if McDonalds and Coca Cola also source some of their ingredients from companies affiliated with Nestlé
Kinda irrelevant in the context of boycotting all three but they do:
(I found this moderately interesting: the three toppings are from three different food conglomerates, Kitkat from Nestlé, M&Ms from Mars, and Daim from Mondelez. And in truth, none of those deserve really your business.)
All of that stuff is terrible for you anyway, I wouldn't consume them even if they were made by my next door neighbour.
It's about breaking habits.
And that can be difficult, especially if it's not a conscious habit. I noticed that when I canceled amazon and audible and chatgpt, etc.
How is ChatGPT already such a habit? What are you people prompting about all day? I am genuinely curious.
It turned into my replacement of Google for shallow questions.
I now use leChat which has less intelligence but more crisp unemotional up to date information.
I also use it for most texts as spellcheck or feedback.
Right now I'm using it as a step by step guide to figure out why I am failing to install Ubuntu on wsl to try it out. Not quite working yet though.
It turned into my replacement of Google for shallow questions.
Might be worth keeping in mind that AI-tools 1) consume huge amounts of electricity and 2) tend to hallucinate.
Why it's not great:
1) is self-explanatory.
While 2) isn't relevant for creative tasks, it is problematic when you expect facts. Unless you know the answer yourself, you can't be sure the AI hasn't just given you some bullshit, even if it's only about spellchecking.
Yea, as someone who uses it daily I know it's limitations very well exactly because I use it so much.
Ps: playing graphics intense computer games costs more energy.
playing graphics intense computer games costs more energy
If your alternative to using AI is gaming, that's sure a valid point.
It's more about the discussion itself.
Many who use the energy usage argument against AI usage are extremely often unaware how much energy the things use which they use daily.. and a lot.
Binge watching streaming videos, gaming, and google searching, YouTube etc. All uses energy and if you calculate usage per person per day per hour average it's often the casually used stuff that adds up way more
I see. I think I‘ll be sticking to different search engines for now. Maybe I‘ll check out leChat or something similar when nothing comes up. Though most search engines will give you AI answers already anyway and they‘re not really helpful in my experience. My browser already has a spellchecker so I‘m good on that front too.
I believe it but reporting was done based on a single internet survey with self reported answers.
Ifop study for NYC.eu*** ***conducted by online self-administered questionnaire from 14 to 17 March 2025 among a representative national sample of 1,000 people, representative of the French population aged 18 and over.
If it was a random representative sample, what difference does it make that it was conducted online?
I was wondering how did they measure economic impact this fast, hence I was interested in the source of this claim. People lie in surveys and say things that make them look better, even anonymously. A lot of modern speech is aspirational in general - we say things we want to be true but aren’t necessarily true, wishing them into existence.
By this argument, we should never trust any survey outcome because we can never be 100% sure that no one lied. Even in personal interviews, people can lie.
Maybe I missed the point?
Yeah, I don’t trust such surveys at all. Phone surveys tend to improve things a bit but internet polls are very hit or miss even under strict protocol. We’ll know true impact in a couple of months when statistics bureaus publish something more concrete and in the meantime we can approximate based on things like quarterly fiscal reports and some broader macroeconomic data.
People upvote this post because it makes them feel good even though nothing concrete was presented, which pretty much proves how unreliable humans are ;)
"Toi know quoi? Fuck toi." *un-freedoms ton fries *
Here's an idea, how about we all just stop using anything that involves a corporation if we can help it.
Unless it's one of the good corporations like Costco.
I find it no longer difficult to avoid McDonald's - not cheap as it used to be and we have alternatives for same price or a couple of euros more. Mdco is no longer fast to prepare food. They also have reduced size of burgers (big tasty that use to be larger has now the same size of a big mac).
Of course they're free to not join, but I struggle to understand how McDonalds can be the cheapest alternative? I don't think it is at all here in Sweden at least, not even close.
Yup. As a French dude I don't see how what they say is true. Typical teenager bullshit to me. You can get much better food for less. On top of the list, students have access to unviersity restaurant where based on income you can pay 1 to 3.30 euros for a complete meal.
I guess these guys also spend a lot on bars in the evening.
Yup. Local street food has always been cheaper than McDonald‘s. There might be exceptions to the rule but generally speaking theres a local restaurant nearby that‘s cheaper and serves better food than any big American fast food chain. Some people just have bad habits.
Yeah, didn't give any money to McDonalds in years, but it's not because I'm boycotting. It's just bad,and there are better alternatives everywhere
On the rainy Grands Boulevards in Paris on Friday, the branches of McDonald’s and KFC were doing brisk business.
There was little sign of “le boycott” – a movement among French customers to reject American brands and products made in the US, in protest at Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and anti-Europe rhetoric.
McDonald's - I (don't) like it. 🍔 ☹️ Coca Cola and Tesla too ☹️ ☹️
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Even French fries?
Why we would boycott our fries? (or more precisely, our Belgian fries?)
We have nothing to loose by boycotting USA food anyway.
Quite funny, in the Netherlands they are also known as „Vlaamse friet”, so Flemish. If I remember correctly they were taken to the Netherlands by Belgian refugees in the First World War, so that explains why they’re called that.
They’re now generally seen as Dutch here, though. And you only really see „Vlaamse friet” in advertising, because it sounds a bit more interesting. The common names are friet(jes) and patat (there’s a war going on between these two).