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[โ€“] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 43 points 1 week ago

2.5 million is like a small regional advertising campaign. Like the scale of a regional furniture retailer might do.

[โ€“] Muffi@programming.dev 33 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hilarious. The EU still subsidize about 1.5โ‚ฌ per kilogram of beef. Maybe fix that shit first?

That was my first thought too. That's not even change. Somehow smoked beet slices are more expensive than beef slices.

[โ€“] dumnezero@piefed.social 31 points 1 week ago

Offensively small budget.

[โ€“] xxce2AAb 24 points 1 week ago

Great in principle, but that seems like a pretty paltry sum.

[โ€“] Niquarl@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago

Honestly 2.5M is so little I'm surprised it makes the news...

[โ€“] drmoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Pennies basically

[โ€“] 4k93n2@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago

they must have cleaned their couches recently

[โ€“] Damage@feddit.it 8 points 1 week ago

inflation is already working on that

[โ€“] HaiZhung@feddit.org 8 points 1 week ago

2.5M is the equivalent of, like, one house in a metropolitan city.

[โ€“] bassad@jlai.lu 6 points 1 week ago

Meanwhile the budget of French meat syndicate is 32Mโ‚ฌ

[โ€“] SunSunFuego@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

people wipe their asses with 2.5mโ‚ฌ is that even news?