Maybe we’ve always been the bad guys, but it sucks that the US is openly being the bad guys now. This isn’t the country I was indoctrinated to think it was. Sad.
I was at a bar a while back and the talk stuck with me. He was a Israeli who moved to America about twenty years ago and still visits Israel to see his family.
He said, “Americans have to stop seeing America as being #1 at anything.” We talked about Israel and Palestine, we talked about the current White House bs, and afterwards, I finally understood what he was saying, especially with the lens of him being an Israeli.
America is America. It’s a place that exists. The rest of the world has a lot better everything. It’s like living in a small backwater town: You know it’s shit, and it wont magically become something it’s not, especially if the Mayor and the Sheriff are inbred hicks who bang each other’s sister wives. Maybe you grow your nestegg until you can move. Or maybe you carve out a piece of the shit hole. But know that it’s a shit hole.
That’s America. Just keep milking because the lunatics are out of their cage.
The US have always been the bad guys. Even independence was about being able to do more genocide and land stealing without the British getting in the way.
Canada also has a brutal history of both slavery and genocide.
Accepting that is the first step to overcoming systemic racism and building communities that we can all thrive in.
You’re right. Everybody is just being dramatic and pretending they can’t afford to own a home. Especially the people having their homes repossessed. They are the biggest fakers of all.
You said people. There’s plenty of people who can afford a home. I get that it sucks for you, but there’s many who can. It isn’t just a rich person thing.
And no, I don’t think they’re pretending, I think you’re being overdramatic.
Cloud, Calender Sync, Contact Sync and Document Collaboration? I use a Nextcloud Instance provided and managed by my university (who have a contract with Nextcloud, a German Company)
Hetzner and many others sell managed Nextcloud Instances
For the Pictures I use a Photoprism Instance running on a VPS, but for Drop-In solutions you can also use a Plug-in for Nextcloud, or buy a managed instance, like on PikaPods
To be honest that was very over my head, but maybe I’ll do some research on it sometime. I don’t do self hosting so I would be looking for things that don’t need that to work.
I know its intimidating but getting a managed instance of nextcloud somewhere like Hetzner is really straight forward. You wont have to do much if any admin past the initial setup.
But services like Proton are a Swiss alternative to a lot of these cloud services.
end-to-end encrypted and open-source collaboration suite.
still really early in development but if you primarily work from the browser on a desktop/laptop, it works well enough. I’ve struggled with getting sheets working on a mobile browser but I really like that you could completely self host if you want or just pay them to do it for you.
I want to cancel my american owned subscriptions and I’m a american
I’m an American and I canceled mine years ago! (Except youtube premium)
Not trying to yuck someone’s yum, but what are the perks for youtube premium?
You get to pay for commercials.
No ads and unlimited YouTube music. I do the family plan for my mom, wife and young daughter. We get our money’s worth for sure.
jellyfin ftw!
Do it. I canceled all my streaming and music subscriptions about a year ago and would highly recommend it to all right thinking people.
Then do it, is someone holding a gun to your head?
Real American question
Haha I don’t actually have any to cancel.
The real cancel culture.
Maybe we’ve always been the bad guys, but it sucks that the US is openly being the bad guys now. This isn’t the country I was indoctrinated to think it was. Sad.
I was at a bar a while back and the talk stuck with me. He was a Israeli who moved to America about twenty years ago and still visits Israel to see his family.
He said, “Americans have to stop seeing America as being #1 at anything.” We talked about Israel and Palestine, we talked about the current White House bs, and afterwards, I finally understood what he was saying, especially with the lens of him being an Israeli.
America is America. It’s a place that exists. The rest of the world has a lot better everything. It’s like living in a small backwater town: You know it’s shit, and it wont magically become something it’s not, especially if the Mayor and the Sheriff are inbred hicks who bang each other’s sister wives. Maybe you grow your nestegg until you can move. Or maybe you carve out a piece of the shit hole. But know that it’s a shit hole.
That’s America. Just keep milking because the lunatics are out of their cage.
The US have always been the bad guys. Even independence was about being able to do more genocide and land stealing without the British getting in the way.
Canada also has a brutal history of both slavery and genocide.
Accepting that is the first step to overcoming systemic racism and building communities that we can all thrive in.
Friendly reminder that practically speaking most countries have committed genocide if they’ve been around longer than a century ish.
Everywhere in the world had slavery.
Thats not true
you be the first to give up your land and give it back to the Indians… but u wont :)
People dont own land anymore. We live and die in ever-inflating rental properties.
My parents are teachers. They own land. It’s not quite as impossible as people like to pretend. Hell, my 20 year old cousin has a house
You’re right. Everybody is just being dramatic and pretending they can’t afford to own a home. Especially the people having their homes repossessed. They are the biggest fakers of all.
You said people. There’s plenty of people who can afford a home. I get that it sucks for you, but there’s many who can. It isn’t just a rich person thing.
And no, I don’t think they’re pretending, I think you’re being overdramatic.
Eagerly awaiting European owned competitors to american big tech products
Tell me what you need?
Cloud, Calender Sync, Contact Sync and Document Collaboration? I use a Nextcloud Instance provided and managed by my university (who have a contract with Nextcloud, a German Company)
Hetzner and many others sell managed Nextcloud Instances
For the Pictures I use a Photoprism Instance running on a VPS, but for Drop-In solutions you can also use a Plug-in for Nextcloud, or buy a managed instance, like on PikaPods
To be honest that was very over my head, but maybe I’ll do some research on it sometime. I don’t do self hosting so I would be looking for things that don’t need that to work.
I know its intimidating but getting a managed instance of nextcloud somewhere like Hetzner is really straight forward. You wont have to do much if any admin past the initial setup.
But services like Proton are a Swiss alternative to a lot of these cloud services.
https://cryptpad.fr/ as an alternative to Googles online office suite.
still really early in development but if you primarily work from the browser on a desktop/laptop, it works well enough. I’ve struggled with getting sheets working on a mobile browser but I really like that you could completely self host if you want or just pay them to do it for you.
It might not cover everything, but here’s a nice list:
https://european-alternatives.eu/
Thank you!
Thanks!
Le livre des visages
Does that mean Facebook in French?
Oui
There are already many out there
Would love to hear about some you like!
The frama suite is good too, e.g. https://framapad.org/abc/en/
Yeah that’s the thing that stands out so much. That almost everything mainstream is either US or China. Come on rest of the world step up.
I want to cancel my residency and move to Canada.