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Bayerns Gesundheitsministerin: Deutsche Krankenhäuser müssen sich auf Kriegsfall vorbereiten in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Klingt für mich etwas nach Panikmache. Das Gesundheitssystem muss sich immer für Katastrophensituationen wappnen, sobald die Wahrscheinlichkeit für deren Eintritt mehr als 0% sind.

DAE feel like DuckDuckGo is now just as good as google for the vast majority of searches? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

I like DDG a lot more, especially because of the bang shortcuts. But I transitioned recently to Qwant. It also has bang shortcuts and is hosted in Europe.

I believe to this day that he bribed the IQ test in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

His IQ is definitely not 145

That's why he needed to bribe someone into saying that he has. ;)

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Europeans boycott US products to protest against Trump tariffs (www.france24.com)
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[MEME] I'm sorry for not posting an actual alternative, but I had to.. (europe.pub)
 

Originally posted on Reddit

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Conclusions after months trying to buy from EU (europe.pub)
 

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

Don´t buy 3M from the USA, Gerband/Tesa is from Germany in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 12 points 19 hours ago

Updated the post. Thanks for the feedback!

What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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

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European alternatives to Google's Gmail (europe.pub)
 

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

What apps have you tried to "de-google" yourself? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

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

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Cats would buy European (europe.pub)
 

Originally posted on Reddit

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Don´t buy 3M from the USA, Gerband/Tesa is from Germany (europe.pub)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
21 comments fedilink
 

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

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Don´t buy 3M from the USA, Gerband/Tesa is from Germany (europe.pub)
submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

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

Originally posted on Reddit

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List of companies/brands by home country (www.goeuropean.org)
 

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/ )?

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Macron to EU colleagues: Stop buying American, buy European (www.politico.eu)
 

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.

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Europe have some quality sneaker brands (europe.pub)
 

There are some amazing sneaker brands from Europe. Few of them are :

Adidas (Germany), Puma (Germany), VEJA (France), Salomon (France), Diadora (Italy), Karhu (Finland), Gola (United Kingdom), Superga (Italy), Hummel (Denmark), Munich (Spain)

Adidas and puma is obviously my fav but there are many others.

Please share your fav European brand for our sneaker heads :)

Originally posted on Reddit

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 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.

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

Good points

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

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

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This is also the way to a more meaningful and fulfilling life!

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

That's why I'm a big proponent of the Anticonsumption and Minimalism Movement. :)

https://europe.pub/c/Anticonsumption

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/[email protected]
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Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first (europe.pub)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
21 comments fedilink
 

cross-posted from: https://europe.pub/post/6784

I see a lot of posts of people complaining that some import products from the EU are too expensive in their own country - namely there was a viral post about someone from Bulgaria sharing that the German Fritz Cola is 2x more expensive than the US alternatives.

In this movement no one is asking you to buy Fritz, buy Bulgarian alternatives first - I am sure there are plenty of bulgarian cola alternatives.

If you live in Bulgaria (ofc whichever country actually) this is best thing to do:

  1. ⁠Buy as local for your city, region you can get (support small companies, mom & pop shops, farmers etc)
  2. Buy generally Bulgarian stuff to support your own economy
  3. Buy EU stuff to support EU economy
  4. Buy Canada or any other ally nation stuff to support good relationship
  5. Buy from USA, China etc (arguably buy Chinese before american)

Ofc the list is just an example on the thought process, you can also make your own list based on your own convictions

Originally posted on Reddit

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Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first (europe.pub)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
0 comments fedilink
 

I see a lot of posts of people complaining that some import products from the EU are too expensive in their own country - namely there was a viral post about someone from Bulgaria sharing that the German Fritz Cola is 2x more expensive than the US alternatives.

In this movement no one is asking you to buy Fritz, buy Bulgarian alternatives first - I am sure there are plenty of bulgarian cola alternatives.

If you live in Bulgaria (ofc whichever country actually) this is best thing to do:

  1. ⁠Buy as local for your city, region you can get (support small companies, mom & pop shops, farmers etc)
  2. Buy generally Bulgarian stuff to support your own economy
  3. Buy EU stuff to support EU economy
  4. Buy Canada or any other ally nation stuff to support good relationship
  5. Buy from USA, China etc (arguably buy Chinese before american)

Ofc the list is just an example on the thought process, you can also make your own list based on your own convictions

Originally posted on Reddit

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