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cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/8592

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/26942340

for the filter: Elon

 

Originally posted on Reddit

 

I've been trying for a few months to get rid of any stuff made out of EU (even before it was mainstream lol), and here are my conclusions at the moment:

Groceries: It's pretty easy. I try to go to local stores, but if I need to go to a supermarket, I go to Carrefour, Mercadona or Froiz, all european, and I've reached to the point that EVERYTHING I buy is european (mostly spanish, portuguese, french or italian).

Clothes: This has been tricky. To buy sneakers has been more dificult than I thought it would be. There are a lot of european brands that actually make it's products in China, Bangladesh, etc., so I had to look very close. Finally, I buyed Victoria sneakers and I'm very happy with them. For shoes and boots, Pikolinos is a very good brand also. Miguel Bellido shirts are very good as well.

Furniture: Well, Ikea is the obvious choice, but I do preffer to buy on spanish and portuguese stores that also have prety good quality for a good price, like Lufe.

Sports: Only sport that I play is climbing, and my last pair of climbing shoes are Tenaya Ra, and I couldn't be happier with them. La Sportiva has amazing products also, being italian and as far as I know, still manufacture in Italy.

Technology: Oh man, this is a pain... I don't want to throw away my iPhone 13 mini until it's done, but when the time comes, I don't know if there are going to be any alternatives. Fairphone, probably, but the components are also from China, right? And anyway, I will struggle with a big phone, which I hate. In PC I can move from Windows to Linux, but the mayority of the PC parts would be made in USA.

Good news is that the only USA page that I actually visit is Reddit, as I don't have Instagram, facebook or any other social media. Bad news is that it will be virtually impossible to leave Whatsapp.

Well, this is it, I guess that all of you are struggling with the same, being the technology the real issue, cause the rest is pretty easy to find alternatives even better.

My faith in Europe has risen since few months back, and I hope it's not too late for us to being able to compete in this new world that is emerging, where if you depend on any way on USA or China, you're lost.

A hug from Spain to all of you, european brothers. And sorry for my poor english.

Originally posted on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Ja echt abnormal

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 hours ago

Updated the post. Thanks for the feedback!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

No it doesn't. If Google stops supporting it, the community forks it and continues development. Has happened often in the past.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Reiner Populismus halt. Die wollen die Gesellschaft so weit zerstören bis sie leicht kontrollierbar ist. Faschismus 101

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Ja! Gibt sogar Vorfälle in denen Kinder in die Notaufnahme müssen, weil Eltern ihnen das einflößen.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Trigger für schwurbler vermutlich

 

What European email services do you use?

Please recommend other interesting email services by your experience.

I have switched from Google's Gmail to ProtonMail and kMail. I really like both, kMail (by Infomaniak) have very similar app interface to Gmail so you will get used to it very fast and also have big storage for free and very good offers for paid plans 👍🏼

Originally posted on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

No. Brave builds on top of the Chromium engine which is from Google but open source.

 

Originally posted on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

So eine schwachsinnige Unterscheidung aber du wirst recht damit haben.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Effektiv vorbeugen und heilen mit Chlordioxid

Das ist für mich durchaus ein Heilversprechen.

 

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/7469

Edit: from the comments it looks like Gerband is way superior to Tesa and also from Germany.

Originally posted on Reddit

 

Edit: from the comments it looks like Gerband is way superior to Tesa and also from Germany.

Originally posted on Reddit

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/9301725

While I find the wiki-style site for European alternatives ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ ) very helpful and have started using it fairly regularly, I feel like it misses an option to just look up a brand or company and easily find out where it's from. Maybe that is already an option and I haven't found it. If so, please point me in that direction.

If not, what I would hope for, is a quick and simple place to check if a given brand or company is perhaps American owned (or more generally where it's profit ultimately goes). For example, I seriously doubt my mother in law would be able to know that Toblerone is an American owned brand. The current wiki pre-supposes that users already know this.

The average EU citizen is in his mid 40s and likely not all that tech savvy. Purchasing power skews towards older folks anyway, so it should be a goal to get this demographic on board. Does anyone have a starting off point where one can easily find the information on a specific company or brand on the go? Could something like this be added to the current site ( https://www.goeuropean.org/ )?

 

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58586751

Macron, who has been calling for years to direct defense spending toward EU products, said he wants to convince other European countries that are currently “buying American” to shift to local options.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

It's quite counterintuitive but most stuff is not an asset but rather a liability. You have to maintain, clean, store it. Messiness comes from having too much stuff. It's almost impossible if you only have things that are really meaningful for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Keep us up to date on how it tastes! :)

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