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  • My Lemmy instance where the top 80% most generic posts are deleted

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  • Oh, kinda like r9k!

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    Is the term "Apotheon" an ancient term?

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  • The title of this post made me think that you were a immortal confused by the evolution of language.

  • Substack open source rival Ghost is now connected to the fediverse

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  • Oh this is fantastic news!

  • Underrated pizza toppings?

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  • My toppings of choice are olives, mushrooms, and pineapple.

  • What are some cheap, easy, and healthy meals to make at home?

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  • OH MAN!!!

    My favourite thing to cook is stir-fry veggie-mix with mashed potatoes.

    I buy a myriad of vegetables in "bulk" (not that much, y'know, but the more you buy the more you have and the less you have to go back to the store) and cut them all up thinly, mix them up, and store them in the freezer. Carrots, cabbage of many varieties, chickpeas, regular peas, onion, french onion, leek, turnip, spinach... It's hard to go wrong with your choices.

    Yes, it does require some prep, as you can see, but it's just a matter of picking your prep day: the day you buy and prepare the veggies.

    When you buy the veggies, you should also buy potatoes. Peel and cut them up in equal chunks; store separately to the veggies.

    That's the prep done.

    Then, whenever you want to eat, you just take some of the veggie-mix, olive oil, salt, and your favourite herbs (garlic, parsley...) and stir-fry the whole thing! Take the potatoes, boil them in salted water, drain the water, mash them thoroughly (I like to mix some spices here too, like cayenne pepper and garlic).

    So delish every time! You can easily get the protein from the veggies, but you could also add tinned fish of your choice, I like tuna.

  • Wallets made in Europe?

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  • I bought a Ridge wallet a couple years ago and I've been very happy, though of course they're not a European company. I think maybe Ekster would be my go-to, were I in the market for a similar product, since they offer a lifetime warranty on their Pro wallets.

  • Thoughts on new Lemmy features to boost intent for posting more?

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  • IDK, if you want to post, you post. I don't feel that encouragement is really needed.

  • Scrolls Volume Seven - Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms

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  • I'll check it out, thanks :D

  • Good morning. What's wrong honey? Part III

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  • I can still see the illusion, though the popcorn is clearer.

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • I just think this year has shown as that USA as a country can’t be relied on and it would be dangerous to continue to do so. Hence why avoid their products.

    Well yeah, you're a reasonable person. I really don't trust the average consumer to be a reasonable person, though. Hey, call me paranoid!

    I’m a bit confused why you think this isn’t about avoiding USA products and why you say it with such confidence. The president of USA said/did bad things, the movement started/skyrocketed to avoid USA products, its not rocket science.

    I'll be upfront. I say it like that because I think it needs to be that.

    This movement started out protectionist; you're right about that. It was about culling imports from the US, and it was jump-started by negative feeling regarding the US and Trump's policies, namely the tariffs. Protectionism is nationalistic, by the way. But boycotting is fickle and vapid, for most. Coca-Cola, Nestlé... They get boycotted occasionally, but it never works. The same would be true for a US boycott. That's why this can't be a boycott, it needs to be something else, which is why I want to push that perspective and that sort of approach. Now, this movement already has some other characteristics: it's pointing out alternatives rather than just showing what not to do, it's focusing on internal benefits (GDPR, warranty, consumer protection) rather than a rejection of foreign goods, it's uniting people rather than dividing... So it's already become quite different than when it started. I remember seeing "Boycott US" flyers, but now I see "Buy From EU." I saw American flags with a cross over them, now I see EU flags. At this point, I think it's not so much aspirational on my part, and just accurate to say that it's not about boycotting the US.

    I didn't meant to make it sound simple or obvious... Or event that I'm particularly confident. I don't want you to read this and think that I'm talking down to you or something, I'm really just saying what I think. I just feel like these paragraphs I'm writing sound a little conceited, sorry about that!

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • Please be careful with quoting! You need to add a a double-paragraph after the , otherwise it all gets joined in a single quote block.

    I mean sure, but I’m saying these tend to not be the kind of people who want to avoid USA products. Like, afd members are probably not boycotting Teslas or twitter etc right now, if you know what I mean.

    I suppose that's true, but there's levels to this. AfD is fascistic, no? You're going into ultra-nationalism there. It's not that you're either not a nationalist or AfD. I know that's not what you said, but what you did say just doesn't really mean much, IMO. Nationalists can easily support the idea of rejecting foreign products! That's something very nationalistic. I don't think we should mistake nationalism, in general, with the worship of capital; they are often connected because conservatives are hypocrites, but they are not the same. AfD, from my understanding as an outsider, is just another fascist party rising in the EU with the strict goal of furthering capital and their own interests, using populism as a tool to get people on their side. I hope I'm making sense here...

    No I don’t mean american liberals, i mean its more liberals in general (canada, EU…) supporting this kind of movement

    Uh, no, I disagree. I don't see a lot of liberals supporting this at all. Then again, I'm on Lemmy where seemingly every other person is a leftist. I mean, a big part of the movement, from what I've seen, is a critique and rejection of American free-market capitalism, which is not a particularly liberal position at all. You see people clamouring for state adoption of decentralized social media, and the idea has been pushed (on Reddit, and I believe here as well) of an EU-funded public social platform for EU citizens. I don't think that sort of position aligns with liberal policy; rather, it aligns with a leftist, socialist perspective. I'd say.

    I really don’t know why they called it buyfromEU or buyeuropean or whatever, but what i’m noticing is that if you want to avoid USA products, almost every alternative is from EU (as long as you want to avoid China too). And it’s not really about EU anyway, people promote Canada or UK stuff all the time.

    It does have the EU flag, but it's about Europe as a whole. Even when they say EU, it's shifted to include the UK and other non-EU countries. It's just that the EU has better regulations, so it's usually a better choice, as a consumer.

    Also, I'm pretty sure it got called Buy From EU because they wanted to create some sort of tribal attachment and appeal to a broader cultural connection, therefore highlighting the cultural divide between Americans and "Europeans." Culture, culture, culture... Huh, I wonder what ideology has such a focus on culture... Bingo!

    And please, the goal is not to "avoid USA products." That's not what this is about, and if you make it about that then it's not a question of if nationalism will creep in; it's a certainty. Make it about supporting EU-businesses, about strengthening the regional economy, and about showing that great products and services can be produced outside of monopolies!

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • The way I see it, they are direct opposite crowds.

    I think that's very naïve, to be honest. Ideological conflicts? I think conservatism is hypocrisy, and nationalism is inherently contradicting and artificial. "No hate like Christian love" is a saying for a reason. Those "crowds," as you put it --- and by the way, it's very easy for anyone to be roped in to any ideology, so I don't think it's really a kind of person that believes any given thing, more so a person that happened to have been exposed to this and that at some point or another --- are hypocritical, contradicting, and malleable. Well, that's my take, anyway.

    For example, do you think Canadians are in danger of going full nationalist because they are avoiding usa products now because Trump wants to make them 51st state?

    Yes!

    If anything, it’s mostly a liberal movement.

    Do you mean liberal as in American liberal, progressives? That does seem to be the case, for now. I'm not saying the movement is nationalist yet, I'm saying I think the rhetoric is a little iffy, and I'd rather avoid going down those routes!

  • LibreOffice is a free, open-source office suite developed by TDF, based in Germany.

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  • You're taking it too literally. I don't know if nationalists tend to be anti-EU, though you're right that a lot of them are, but I was using nationalistic there very loosely to refer to the negative aspects of nationalistic ideology as applied to Europe --- and the EU, in particular.

    That being said, it's very easy to get hooked into a Buy European craze and then shift into Buy YourNation, which can quickly turn into "We're better than everyone else and if you don't think that you're a traitor" and so on and so on...

  • I'm looking for a toothbrush that doesn't contain any plastic, but I'm having a hard time finding one.

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  • Well, I didn't say fuck small independent businesses... It's just that we're in the Buy European comm, which is about European goods and services... And American is not European...

    That being said, the goal of the Buy European movement, in general, isn't to screw over American businesses of any size, but to strengthen and support European businesses. If you're buying from the US, consider buying from Europe instead. That's how that goes.

  • 🌱 Seitan 🤤

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  • Seitan is violently underrated! Enjoy :D

    Edit: Oh snap, is this Pixelfed?!

  • I'm looking for a toothbrush that doesn't contain any plastic, but I'm having a hard time finding one.

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  • One of the co-founders is German, but it seems the company itself is American.

  • I'm looking for a toothbrush that doesn't contain any plastic, but I'm having a hard time finding one.

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  • Well, this isn't really what you're asking but maybe this link can help?

    There's also Gaia Guy (which is Canadian AFAIK, not European, but... Maybe close enough?).

    You could look for horse hair or boar hair toothbrushes and see what you can find.

  • Are old people usually attracted to other old people?

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  • to mate as soon as ready, so there is some natural attraction towards that age.

    Are you sure?

  • I've updated the Digital Independence cheat sheet for leaving big tech

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  • I didn't want to mention this on Reddit because there's many more people there, but are you guys aware of P-Stream?

    It actually replaces Netflix. The legality of the service is... Questionable, at best, however.