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Re: European Alternatives

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Post by PlatoIsADisease »

mg794613 wrote: post #117
PlatoIsADisease wrote: post #55

Ugh, back to nationalism. I think there is some sort of Darwinistic reason for this. Maybe its inevitable. Not to say that the US didn't help spur this, but its just sad to see. When I was younger, I was such an idealist. Anarchy, open borders, free market open trade, pacifism. Even as Trump started getting aggressive, I kept trying to tell myself: "Well, these other countries surly know that most of the population d…

Can you imagine, knowing so little of the rest of the world, you call this nationalism without irony. Sir, please read up on Wikipedia what the EU is. What Europe is. Also, this is a very mild response to a "American first" new world order.

Depends on what level you are looking at. Did you know the US is comprised of 50 states with their own laws and security forces?

Pedantic. My state didn't vote for the US president, yet you are looking to buy from a different state now.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by whilenot-dev »

lmf4lol wrote: post #189
whilenot-dev wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really, no. Europe is neither a sovereign state nor a single political entity. It's a continent composed of many individual nations with a versatile history. I mean sure, your example shows that the virtue of being "European" represents a certain demographic and a sovereign territory. Again, it's a continent, so what?

yet

Probably never... European nations rather seem to enjoy forming Unions, Agreements and Organizations.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by toomuchtodo »

202508042147 wrote: post #166

Doing my bit: migrating my small company's db this weekend from AWS RDS to Hetzner VPS + volumes. Fingers crossed! Already done: replaced SendGrid with Sweego. Later: move domains from US registrar to EU based. The difficult bit is the Microsoft Office because we are also using Azure DevOps for code, tickets, wiki and ci/cd.

What EU based registrars would you recommend?

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by maigret »

lmf4lol wrote: post #192
skrebbel wrote: post #83

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You simply don’t need such inflated salaries if schools are free, roads are not broken, trains exist, healthcare is affordable, grocery stores are in biking distance, parks are good and free and plenty, labor laws are in your favour, utilities markets mostly aren’t dysfunctional and a 2-bedroom apartment doesn't cost $10000/m. Americans compare their salaries to European ones but never stop to imagine the insane high…

True. But the systems are more and more breaking down. Its unsustainable. At least what I can tell from Germany and the Netherlands. to see a healthcare specialist, you wait 3-6months in some cases. Not talking about the trains. Germany DB runs on time in only 50% of the cases. So thats a big problem

The trains that are 10 min late in Germany mostly not exist in many other countries. Sure Switzerland is the best, but Germany is pretty high up. It’s just less good than it used to be. Oh and you can ride almost everywhere for 60 EUR / month.

For healthcare if you get an IT salary you can either move to private insurance, or buy additional insurance, or just pay a consultation yourself for a fee that US people won’t believe.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by lukan »

carlosjobim wrote: post #193
skrebbel wrote: post #83

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You simply don’t need such inflated salaries if schools are free, roads are not broken, trains exist, healthcare is affordable, grocery stores are in biking distance, parks are good and free and plenty, labor laws are in your favour, utilities markets mostly aren’t dysfunctional and a 2-bedroom apartment doesn't cost $10000/m. Americans compare their salaries to European ones but never stop to imagine the insane high…

Do you want to live in a school, on the streets, in a train, in a hospital, in a park or in a grocery store? As long as housing is extremely expensive in Europe, nothing else matters except for higher salaries.

Housing is not extremely expensive in europe. Only close to the big cities it is.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by rkomorn »

PlatoIsADisease wrote: post #199
bildung wrote: post #139

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People in the US need to become more aware of the dramatic impact this current administration has on the world. A paper in the Lancet, not exactly your average leftie rag, extrapolates the deaths resulting from the sudden USAID defunding to amount to about 14 million people. That's about 10x Pol Pot. People around the world distancing themselves from these actions is hardly nationalism. https://www.thelancet.com/jour…

I'm sorry, my cognitive bias says 'Look! See! That proves my point at how great the US is/was.' 1 bad politician elected by a fraction of the population is enough to turn the world against us. Why bother with such altruism when a single election can turn everyone against us?

Altruism is not transactional.

If you think the US' "altruism" should buy us goodwill, then you're not for altruism, you're for good PR.

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by quicksilver03 »

vldszn wrote: post #108
quicksilver03 wrote: post #92

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I've seen the same thing, the site accepts submissions but there's no one to either approve or reject them. Unfortunately they did really well at SEO at one time, and more active alternatives appear far below in the search results.

Do you know any good alternatives?

I've been able to submit new entries to

https://eucloud.tech/

https://buy-european.net/

I've also found other problematic ones:

https://euro-stack.com/ (I couldn't understand how to submit a new entry)

https://www.goeuropean.org/ (all submissions fail with an AirTable error [sic] that the workspace is at the record limit)

Re: European Alternatives

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Post by carlosjobim »

lukan wrote: post #206
carlosjobim wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you want to live in a school, on the streets, in a train, in a hospital, in a park or in a grocery store? As long as housing is extremely expensive in Europe, nothing else matters except for higher salaries.

Housing is not extremely expensive in europe. Only close to the big cities it is.

It is extremely expensive almost everywhere when you compare to local salaries.
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