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Cake day: March 11th, 2025

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  • Everyone was happy when they could outsource dirty and labor-intensive jobs to China and benefit from the cheap products. China gladly took on these tasks and built a monopoly. Now, it is the sole source for most minerals and rare earth elements because everyone else stopped producing them. China is now moving up the value chain, processing these raw materials into higher-value products. However, the world has become so dependent on China’s mineral supplies that countries cannot block trade with China without risking their own production halts, since China could also stop selling the materials they rely on. This is already happening with rare earth minerals and other critical resources like tungsten.

    Only way put of this would be a long time strategic investment into local manufacturing capacities, but it will cost a lot and take a lot of time. And China will dump the prices until those companies go out of business again and then we are back at the start. Happened with solar, is happening with batteries, I wonder what will be next…




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    4 days ago

    Ich finde Nutriscore ja eigentlich eine schöne Sache, wenn es einem hilft vielleicht mal die gesündere Variante aus dem benachbarten Regalbrett zu wählen. Aber welchen Sinn ergibt denn ein Nutriscore bei Öl? Es ist Öl, mit Öl drin. Kenne kein Öl das ungesunde Mengen Zucker enthält oder kalorienreduziertes Öl, wo man dann vielleicht mal ein Glas mehr von trinken kann. Das ist Öl, wo man eine Spritzer an den Salat oder in die Pfanne haut und gut ist.