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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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Guess who now has a girlfriend! (Can't text her back sadly, since she's banned) (feddit.org)

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I was all set and then crushed in disappointment (lemmy.world)

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

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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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OpenAI Says It’s "Over" If It Can’t Steal All Your Copyrighted Work (futurism.com)

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Rubber shoes in motion (programming.dev)

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Europe have some quality sneaker brands (europe.pub)

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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

Need a new phone? Get a Fairphone! in c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I suppose they did that to make it as easy as possible to get into it. It's sad but it's just how it is.

Need a new phone? Get a Fairphone! in c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

shiftphone

Interesting. Haven't heard about them. Would you be ready to post a link to them into the community? :)

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

[–] tfm@europe.pub 3 points 1 day 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.

Need a new phone? Get a Fairphone! in c/BuyFromEU@europe.pub

[–] tfm@europe.pub 1 points 1 day ago (4 children)

That's so unfortunate. I'd still rather buy their phones than supporting Apple or any other soulless corporation. Even if they have the perfect phone

Don’t just buy from the EU, buy local first in c/buyfromeu@feddit.org

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Good points