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  • Oh yes it’ll go on for a long time and might never return to the previous state.

    American products got world wide recognition in a time when USA was the peak of western culture, technology and quality.

    With or without tariffs and boycotts, people everywhere in the world will once again have to question if they even want America products. This doesn’t go well with the increased consumer awareness that is happening everywhere else but in USA.

    UK turning down clorinated American chickens is the funniest thing today, like eew brother, eew what’s that?





  • bstix@feddit.dktoLord Of The Rings Memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comA classic
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    In that case, someone spend a lot of time cutting up a guitar in photoshop for no good reason.

    One thing is the size of the head stock and lower frets. That makes sense if someone did it manually. But then look at the frets 15 and upwards. Despite the low resolution, its pretty clear that they’re not in the right positions. Also notice the inlays. They’re in the wrong positions all over the board, even in the places where the frets are in the right place and right size.

    If someone wanted to do this in photoshop it would require more work to make it this wrong than to simply keep the original photo in those places. Why would anyone go out of their way to move the inlays completely seamlessly, while also making the other mistakes?





  • bstix@feddit.dktoBuyFromEU@feddit.orgEuropean Jeans
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    The supply chain of clothing is very international.

    Most European brands have their clothes manufactured in Europe. It does not matter if the specific brand is French, British or Scandinavian etc. They all use the same factories, roughly speaking. Parts of this might involve outsourcing to China and who knows where else the salary is cheap, but generally the sewing is mostly done in EU still.

    However. The textiles used for manufacturing almost always come from various parts of Asia depending on the material. For instance, silk and synthetic fabrics are from China, denim/cotton from India, wool from Turkey etc. It’s very difficult to find textile elsewhere in any meaningful quantity. It might be possible to find a few tiny brands doing something local, but overall, Europe is in no way self-sufficient in textiles. An outlier is Italy. Italian fabrics are known for good quality, but they cost more, so it’s mostly used by luxury brands all over Europe.


  • Unpredictable things happen at that speed.

    Forget about braking distance. The reaction time is the difference between life and dying before you even know it.

    I know of one example where a motorcyclist killed himself that way. Nobody knows how fast he was going but it’s assumed above 250 km/h, on a regular highway. Down the road is a cross section. A lorry was fully stopped at the crossing and preparing to turn right onto the highway in the same direction as the motorcycle. The lorry driver checked both directions and saw that the road was completely clear as far as the eye could see, hundreds of meters.

    A split second later he heard a bump and pulled over to check if he had hit an animal or something. He found a massive hole in the back and the debris from a motorcycle. There was no brake marks or anything indicating that the motorcycle had even attempted to brake or steer around. The theory is that the motorcyclist might have glimpsed at the speedometer or something for long enough that he drove the entire visible distance before being able to even react.

    Obviously he was a fault himself, but the point is that at speeds like this, you no longer have any capability to predict what happens next.

    If your friend thinks that cool, he might as well play Russian roulette. At least that doesn’t put innocent people in danger.