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My best friend is visiting Denmark currently to hang out with me for a week and she wanted mcd last night so we drove there and have never seen our mcd this empty before. We were literally the only ones there. I'm so proud of my fellow Danes.
For me, I'm mostly focused on replacing digital services as I believe they are way more important than groceries, but I shop for the star too and avoid american products more actively anyways. I dunno how big of an effect it will have in that regard, but with the tech stuff, I think that is where we can hit them the hardest and protect ourselves the most, so that is where I put in an effort. Went back to buying dvds and blurays and cut off all streaming services except for filmstriben, but that doesn't count. I also left Meta and reddit and have deleted my youtube app and cut significantly down on my youtube "spending" if you can call it that. It feels great.
The next step will be to change my personal email and that is going to be a bigger undertaking that I don't look forward to. Urgh. Eventually I'll have to look into Linux too or something like that despite being a tech illiterate idiot.
We had the first discussion in my company yesterday about how our company is tied up in American tech and what we should do about it, if anything in the near future. A similar discussion has begun about the entire Danish digital system which is also mired in American tech. What do we do about that? It'll be a very long and very slow transition and I don't even know if the alternatives for that beast of a system exists yet.
All I can say is that I'm kind of excited about the future. Worried too. Very. But excited nonetheless. I'm a pessimistic optimist.
If you can't switch to Linux, they won. If we are so helpless and tied up into a single system, we let them own our lives and values. Then they can fuck us over all they want, and we will have to take it up the back without complaining.
I switched to Ubuntu. Took me 2 days to adjusts. Everything I use is in a browser anyway.
I didn't say I would never switch to Linux, just not right now. As for my company, switching to Linux or another operating system + changing emails and other subscription services isn't something you just do over a weekend. That stuff takes time.
I have made that fast and easy changes by now because they cost me nothing and with some of the bigger changes, it takes some more thorough conversations and some research before decisions can be made. I'm not like trump. I don't snap my fingers and make spur of the moment changes without considering the longterm effects. Especially not when it comes to my livelihood.