By gekko513
7-Eleven is 100% Japanese since 2005
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2025
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I am American but don't want to be anymore
Blue sky is an American non-profit?
From clothing down on the right column, never seen any of these available for sale here in the midwest
If I had to guess, the intended audience is Europeans.
Proton’s CEO supports Trump despite being an EU based company:
They support their pockets
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
Anyone know if Qwant's search engine is pretty capable? I would like to ditch Google, but it's hard b/c it has the best search results
Just tried it, it has very similar results as Bing.
Somehow I don't use/buy any of these? Like from either side of the chart... I guess I'm doing my part?
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.
There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that's bad and really shouldn't be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn't. Please don't share it this further, it's absolutely shit.
TBF, it says "European", not "good".
"Perfect is the enemy of good. Please accept this slop."
"Oh no this is wrong"... proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction
BlueSky is not owned by a non profit. First row.
I'm not in it but I have been told it's almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter
It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit
While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.
Also, "normal" for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It's misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).
I still believe BlueSky is world's better than Twitter! But it's important to be honest about it.
Totally fair
HERE We Go? Isn't that owned by microsoft?
DON'T SPREAD STUPID SH*** LIKE THAT.
What a BS honestly, I am fully anti Trump but this does not help at all. Why? Some examples:
- You think supporting European faschist enablers (e.g. Red Bull) is better than [insert random US company here] is just silly.
- Do your homework: Capri Sun is German, not American, gosh.
- Blueeky is NOT non-profit, stop spreading misinfirmation
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It still helps because you are buying european which is better for europe also you called every single company in the list fascist with this logic, a lot of them arent, idk what redbull did tho.
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It is german but pretty sure its sold by coca cola.
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How can you make appliances list without Miele?
If you are in the market for a vacuum cleaner do yourself a favor, go more expensive and get a Miele, especially if you have some carpets, most vacuums can do a job on hard floors, but damn the difference of vacuuming carpets either a cheap vacuum vs my Miele is night and day.
(Don't know about the rest of their products, but they are german and a family owned business)
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Mmm... ditch Garmin, strap a raspberry pi + car battery to your arm, & away you go.
Lol, or get a polar fitness watch instead?
Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.
This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.
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I live in the USA and I will buy foreign as much as possible. Until we make it illegal most likely
OK, but... What is the fault of the rest of the people in the USA?
This list has some issues, Booking.com is Dutch and Philips' Consumer division is just a name that whitelabels other companies products and is owned by a Chinese investment company.
Booking.com is owned by an American company though
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It's a shame it needed someone like Trump to actually get European alternatives more attention. They needed attention way before Trump.
Also the food and drinks alternatives are a bit odd. Many brands on the European side I don't recognize, probably because they're pretty local to whoever made this list.
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Completely missing are power tools and guns. So please buy Bosch, Festool, Hilti, H&K, Cz., Glock, FN.
Avoid American gun companies like Sig Sauer, and support Swiss and EU gun companies like Sig Sauer
All kidding aside also worth mentioning are Beretta, Benelli, and Steyr
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Omg, I'm boycotting USA ... since like forever, I'm so sorry, it was totally by accident, thots and players, I hope everyone recovers financially.
Tho the steaming one I do a bit ... differently.
(Also just boycott big corpos as much as possible, no matter the region!!)
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