skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago

I guess not so much in the grander scheme of things, but it’s astonishing and depressing in equal measures that Britain doesn’t seem able to have kept hold of any of its own beloved home-grown brands.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It's distressing how many British sweet brands now have a chain of ownership leading to the US. Mondelez famously bought Cadbury's, and Bain Capital (y'know, Mitt Romney's company) own most of the "classics" like Barratts, Fox's Glacier Mints, Poppets, Tavener's, Mojo chews, Barker & Dobson etc. The only big non-American company left is Nestle, and they can also fuck wayyyyy off.

It's only Terry's and Tunnocks left now, and even then Terry's are owned by the Fr*nch.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Simple, all you need is a 6 ohm resistor and a 0.18457216 ohm resistor in series.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

I'm sure the numbers are irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, but it still brings me satisfaction to upload loads of long videos to Facebook, all set to Visibility: Just Me, just to cost them more in storage than they earned off me in ad revenue.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 week ago

It's weird that this hasn't already long since happened. Most every Asian country I've been to has had its own local payment systems.

There seems to be this idea that Visa & Mastercard are somehow too big to be usurped, but it's all illusion.