- lance20000@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
Good, fuck the USA and it’s garbage products. It’d be harder to do if they weren’t shit now, but perpetually cutting quality is basically the USA’s motto. Now they are experiencing it in the government.
- 1 year
Exactly this. And then try and sell us their shitty stuff that’s doused in diseases and add tariffs to it?!?! Just to suck profit out of formerly allied countries, and force them to suffer for your own gain??!
Big Fuck you USA.
- 1 year
Doused in diseases?
What do you mean by that? That sounds like biological warfare.
- ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzEnglish1 year
There is a long-running disagreement between the US and the EU because the EU does not allow the purchase of US poultry since it does not meet EU food standards. Put bluntly, they keep too many chickens in a too small coup, and diseases spread between them as a result on top of the sheer cruelty of it all. To compensate, they give them a lot of antibiotics, which has the effect of creating and spreading resistant superbacteria. At least that’s the allegation.
- lance20000@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
Man, I wish. Preschool rocked.
You should come with me because grammar and punctuation don’t seem like a strong suit.
- 1 year
Also it was probably free if you’re in the EU, unlike the dude above you, lol. His parents had to get another job to pay for school.
- 1 year
My Netflix membership is 10 years old. I’ve cancelled it yesterday. Also my prime membership.
1 yearAlldebrid.com is French. Just use that for streaming with Stremio or Kodi + Seren
- mrhenry77@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Our family Netflix subscription ran for over 10 years and yesterday I canceled it. I also canceled my subscriptions for discord, chatGPT, claude and dropbox. BOYCOTT U.S. SOFTWARE
- HollowHawk@lemmy.zipEnglish1 year
Just learned claude is also US. The only European AI seems to be Mistral.ai
- mrhenry77@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
yes, it is not bad, but a few months behind here is the ios app: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/le-chat-by-mistral-ai/id6740410176?l=en-GB
actually works well free and generates really good images with blackforest api
- sasquatch7704@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Honest question, not making fun, not judging: why do you have a subscription for chatgpt and Claude? Do you use it that often? Or is work related?
- mrhenry77@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
work related. tbh i have even more AI subscriptions that I cant cancel (yet)
- 1 year
While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.
This first US company they (and everyone) needs to boycott is Meta.
I’m in Canada and Facebook is huge for my business. We get more bang out of a free social media post than paying for advertisements anywhere.
I fricking HATE IT.
On a personal level, I almost never use facebook. I refuse to put it on my phone and really only use it not to post stuff for the business - which I do through a 3rd party social media app.
- Jack@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
“All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz
FB is huge in Canada for personal stuff too, me and my friends do not post meal pic or vacation or things like this, but damn marketplace and some hobbies group are strong there. Just the “Made in Canada” FB group grew from 50’000 members to 1.1 million in less than a month.
FB can be easily replaced with Lemmy, it’s just a question of age/generation I guess
Lemmy is more an alternative to reddit. Friendica is the alternative to FB from the fediverse
- WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
no not really, its a totally different thing. you cant follow people here, nobody here uses their real name, and you can’t limit visibility of content to just friends. marketplace is also not a thing, and that feature is not just yet another community
Pretty sure you can follow people on mbin.
I wish Friendica would take off more.
I said that a Facebook group is like a Lemmy community, not that Lemmy can replace Facebook. You got friendica for that (never used it though) For marketplace replacement, Flohmarkt is coming
Aren’t there actually tiktok alternatives I’m the Fediverse, rather than suggesting something that’s use case is different?
Edit: I meant to say Facebook alternatives…
Absolutely! Remove all meta apps and close your accounts. Zuck is a big suckup to Trump and his software collects and sells your data as if there is no tomorrow
- Daemonia@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
That’s true, but first we need to reach enough people to get the movement going. In the meantime they should just turn on their adblockers.
- 1 year
Meta is bad although I would argue that X and Tesla are worse.
- HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish1 year
Norway walked that back.
Norway says it will keep supplying fuel to US navy after company calls for boycott
- Galolinn@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
It was a private company that decided not to provide their refueling services to the American Navy, not the Norwegian government. What the government is saying is that they will not be not doing the same that Haltbakk Bunkers is doing. But this company stays firm. The practical effects will probably be minimal, since they are an important but rather small actor in the sector. But as a Norwegian, I am proud of them! (And not so much of my government).
Really awesome what Haltbakk Bunkers is doing! Proud of dutch pension fund ABP selling all their tesla stock
- 1 year
This would help the American people fight the Oligarchs. Godspeed, friends.
- humourme@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
can you imagine if the movement that we are experiencing in canada takes place all over europe? that would be huge
I think it will. China has announced sanctions on particular US companies. I’d like to see more of that on Trump-positive businesses.
And so: Hello Lemmy! Here I am! Left ‘socials’ like reddit, dropped hotmail and google accounts … i’ts not much but it’s start
- Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
Cancelled a bunch of subscriptions after trump support for Ukraine. Seems like the only language americans understand is 💸
- 1 year
American here: genuinely, go for it. If you want to be even more highly targeted, you can also take a page out of Canada’s book: they’re encouraging people to target things that are produced in red states specifically, in addition to a general push for a boycott. Bourbon (from Kentucky), for instance.
- 1 year
As an American here, I think I might join them. Start buying more Canadian goods.
- Lightor@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
That “Made in America” logo is going to start being viewed very differently than when I was a kid.
Support your local breweries and buy their sodas and not coca cola <3 I do this and ngl Oettinger cola-mix and Riegele Spezi are amazing
Some people want them. Dont live on just water like me. So better them drinking local things
- rollerbang@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
I mean, there’s way more selection than just water that is still healthy.
- GaMEChld@lemmy.worldEnglish1 year
We will play with squirrels instead of video games! And wear bedsheets instead of clothing!
- 1 year
Literally the only thing I miss about living in a Germanic country lmao
- 1 year
That’s my point, I don’t live in a Germanic country anymore and Apfelschorle (Rhabarbershorle too) is the only thing I miss
Trouble with that in the UK is Coca-cola is the only soft drink really that hasn’t bowed to the sugar tax and changed their recipe to be full of artificial sweeteners.
I absolutely can’t stand the taste of these sweeteners and some even make me feel kinda of bad after drinking them.
- 1 year
As a mexican I can say that this will be really hard, mexicans love so much Coke btw we have popular alternatives like red cola, but I’ve only seen masons consume that product
- 1 year
it won’t be hard when you understand that USA is selling you on their diseased junk just to profit off of you. We need to wake up to the fact that they are not selling us good products. They are selling us JUNK with no government oversight that is now full of GOD KNOWS WHAT just to keep it cheap, and turn a profit at the expense of your health and hard earned money.
https://www.buy-european-made.eu/
https://european-alternatives.eu/
And for us Canadian, there is always https://madeincanadadirectory.ca/
- Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish1 year
Thank you!
As a Canadian, I have no problem supporting our EU friends.
And to be honest, just looking at the list you can tell that the ethics within those companies are completely different than what you find with the American alternatives.
Even without a dictator leading the States, buying European would still be better. 🤭
Pretty wild, actually!
- aldfin@lemm.eeEnglish1 year
Gotten rid of nearly every US digital service I have. Physical stuff I will still probably roll with my Apple devices until they wear out since they’re relatively new, but almost all the data and apps are basically European and/or open source services. Work related stuff remains the challenge. Next phone will be HMD.
