By gekko513
Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.
Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.
These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don’t bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they’re just slightly healthier or at least don’t contain stuff that’s actively bad for you, but they’re still shit if that’s all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.
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I’ll just buy using temu or AliExpress. European brands are too expensive in my third world country
You will never avoid Coke. Just admit your impending failure.
Sad Element/Matrix noises q.q
Right! Tedomum.net is hosted in France 🥖
another propaganda attempt to disband the Europeans …
The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.
I think if you quit you’ll find you’re fine without it.
It’s hard because all my old Livejournal friends are on there.
You make facebook sound a lot cooler than it actually is.
Why don’t we(lemmy) get to suck the rigid cock of Satan? This is metal as fuck.
The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!
streaming: the right side, most of those are country specific.
Check out my stack! Any suggestions for alternatives?
Letterboxd is from New Zealand!
Looks really nice!
Though Lemmy.world is Dutch and I would suggest Qobuz as a better alternative to Spotify.
The main admin is Dutch, but it is hosted in Finland, unless that has changed.
What’s your experience with running /e/OS/ with banking apps and things like that? I’ve been considering a degoogled Android phone like Fairphone
7-Eleven is 100% Japanese since 2005
Boycott 9-Eleven instead.
I am American but don’t want to be anymore
Proton’s CEO supports Trump despite being an EU based company:
Proton is a Swiss company, not EU
Sure, but it’s listed in the image on services.
Europe is a continent, EU is the European Union which has 27 member countries in Europe that are not Switzerland.
Europe != E.U.
They support their pockets
Hello and welcome to the point!
Pretty ironic that the website that created this, buy-european-made.eu, is actually promoting their Reddit community. They should really switch to an EU-hosted Lemmy instance, and also join Mastodon, just like european-alternatives.eu: @european_alternatives@mastodon.social
This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.
The shareholders expect growth and therefore increase in the value of their investment, public benefit companies are however under no obligation to their shareholders to pass on profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. It’s definitely not a non-profit either though, it’s a different structure.
Plenty of “regular” for profit companies focus on increasing share value by investing profits back into the company instead of paying out dividends. That doesn’t really mean anything.
Edit: I see what you mean based on what I said. They expect a return on investment is a better way to phrase it.
