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Oh wow Switzerland must have some amazing gold mines with huge reserves
They found it mostly in between teeth.
Actually, the same issue as with billionaires. The country became so wealthy that it can afford paying for what happened during WWII.
The Netherlands does photo lab equipment? I would've figured tulips, produce, something like that. Or EUV machines from ASML
Or EUV machines from ASML
That's possibly what it means, since it uses a photolithographic process.
Aren't they closing?
Flavoured water… wtf?
I had to search this one up it's so bizarre. "Flavoured water" covers the following:
"Waters, including mineral and aerated waters, containing added sugar or sweetening matter, flavoured; other non-alcoholic beverages, not including fruit or vegetable juices"
So it's very broad really. Still bananas.
OK, looks like it's probably Red Bull.
"Red Bull is a well-known energy drink originating from Austria."
Take data with a grain of salt. Spain is by far the worlds largest producer and exporter of olive oil, for example
The Czech republic has non optical microscopes only because FEI (part of Thermo Fisher Scientific) has its manufacturing plant there.
Since there are basically two manufacturers of election microscopes on earth (the other one being Zeiss) and one of these bad boys will settle you for millions of dollars, this explains how it's the country's main exports.
Before being aquire by Thermo Fisher Scientific (in 2014 or 2015, not sure) FEI's annual gross income was around $1B, so around the figure cited here.
Source: I worked at FEI when it was aquire by Thermo Fisher Scientific.
Thanks, I was wondering because nobody mentions our "dominance" in the field here... The Brno Technical Museum has an exhibition of some Czechoslovak-made electron microscopes but from what I understood, they became obsolete like much of Eastern Bloc technology.
Anyway, it's not our main export by a long shot, it's just the biggest category where we happen to be #1 by volume. Our country has relatively cheap labor and most of our exports come from assembling various mechanical devices, notably cars.
Have you been to the Czech Republic, anyway? How was it? Do you speak Czech? I see you didn't capitalize the R, which is a common mistake by Czechs because we don't have title case.
In 90's there was some investment in our production and it was saved and modernized.
Now Brno is also development and research hub for electron microscopes and non optic imaging. And it isn't only the cheap stuff that is made here - from few thousand $ simple inspection devices to multiple million $ for FAB's in Taiwan.
Our car centric economy is pain, there are loads of other things that we can be #1 or at least one of the main leaders in development... Now when car sales slows our economy tanks.
Switzerland takes its gold from all the mining sources legal and illegal and mostly produces and exports gold bars.
And don't think, they are huge plan. They are actually small factories.
For example: https://maps.app.goo.gl/xhwWjYqs5YaMa4Y17
What's Enzymes?
Greetings, country(wo)man, do you have an ear to lend me?
Non-optical microscopes sounds cool as fuck. Had no idea.
Ireland looks interesting
Fucking ENZYMES?? I know that they're important and everything, but imagine being at an international conference or something and bragging about being the enzyme guys 😄
Interesting that Ukr is a top exporter of seed oils. As I recall, RFK Jr was going on about seed oils recently, which is a first for me when it comes to the conspiracies. I feel like I've heard of most of them, but blaming seed oils for problems was kinda novel.
The whole seed oil thing isnt that much of a conspiracy as it is completely blown out of proportion.
The core of it boils down to: An imbalance between Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids causes and/or worsens inflammatory conditions. Seed oils (sunflower, canola, peanut, soy bean), especially the highly refined varieties, typically contain was more O-6 than O-3 fatty acids. So, if you stop your brain there "seed oils bad, use olive, avocado or (as our chronically online right wing twitter users probably prefer) non vegetarian or vegan fats like butter or tallow".
This however ignores and oversimplifies things massively. First of all, the balance between fatty acids is just one factor for inflammations. Secondly, hardly anybody consumes only one type of oil exclusively and especially not necessarily in the relevant amounts. Fried your mushrooms in canola and added them to a salad dressed in olive oil? Shouldnt be a problem.
The real issue that doctors warned against was the amount of (seed) oils hidden in already highly processed foods - every type of fat is replaced by a cheap, neutral tasting oil, most often canola, sunflower or soy bean oil.
Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the context. I thought this was just some new seed-oils-cause-autism thing.