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  • PhoenixDog@lemmy.worldtoscience@lemmy.world•Literally
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    3 months ago

    There’s a new push from the right with the whole trial with Fauci that everything he said was a lie and that the vaccine didn’t actually work, social distancing didn’t actually work, and masks didn’t actually work because some dipshit American politician made something up and the right ran with it.

    So now the right has their weekly walking papers of “We were right all along!” because why have facts and evidence and you can have Rand Paul of all people invent a false narrative and the sheep follow right along with it.

    Let’s ignore all the other countries who leaned into the vaccine and social distancing that didn’t lose a fraction of their population compared to America to Covid. Let’s also completely ignore the fact that Trump of all people was at the forefront of Operation Warp Speed to accelerate funding and research for mRNA vaccines.

    But no one has ever accused Americans of being smart.










  • Keep in mind that most off-brand products are literally the same brand name product in a different container.

    In Canada we have a few off brand labels like No Name and Compliments. Take ketchup for example. The off-brand ketchup is literally the same brand name Heinz or French’s it’s sitting beside, but for $1.50 cheaper. That’s because the off brand companies like Wal Mart and Loblaws pay for production cycle time at the main plants. So a run of Heinz ketchup will actually be a run of No Name ketchup. Heinz gets more money for the use of production time than they would selling that line of their own brand ketchup.

    If you’re brand loyal to something, you’re just willing to pay more for a name, not the thing you want. Sour cream, mayo, toothpaste, even soap is all the exact same as the brand name stuff you’re buying.

    Most of the time you can tell where it came from by the production stamp. All companies have their own number so the no name ketchup would have the same product number stamp as the brand name one because it came from the same facility.