Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump
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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).
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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?
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It turned inti 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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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Yea, as someone who uses it daily I know it's limitations very well exactly because I use it so much.
playing graphics intense computer games costs more energy
If your alternative to using AI is gaming, that's sure a valid point.
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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 au usage are extremely often unaware how mich 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
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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).
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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 bureau publish something more concrete and in the meantime we can approximate based on things like quarterly fiscal reports and some broader macroeconomic data.
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3 simple things that everyone can do.
**1. Use Mozilla Firefox as your default browser
**Avoid Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge.
Mozilla Firefox is an excellent open source and secure browser.
2. Don't give your data to facebook
Why are you telling facebook your gender, your place of birth, or the name of your employer ? Facebook doesn't need to know any that. The more info they have about you, the more money they make. If you still use that stuff, go to your profile right now. Delete these informations.
Remember to also visit Facebook privacy settings. Don't allow "personalized advertising"
3 Replace Google by Qwant.
Set up Qwant or Ecosia as your default search engine.
This is super basic stuff. But I wish more people did it.
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Kinda irrelevant in the context of boycotting both but they do:
All of that stuff is terrible for you anyway, I wouldn't consume them even if they were made by my next door neighbour.
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Boycott Coca Cola, McDonalds, Tesla, Walmart-we must continue to resist the Trump regime worldwide!
