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I really wanted to like Qobuz but the recommendations are terrible. Like I’d be listening to deep house and it would suggest Johnny Cash.

I suppose this qualifies as an unpopular opinion, but it’s some of the most cringeworthy pseudo-intellectual garbage I’ve ever read.

You view nature as useless and hostile, but you ignore its most basic undeniable benefits – food, oxygen production, climate regulation. You view cities as clean and efficient utopias, while ignoring that they’re plagued by crime, air pollution, industrial waste, disease outbreaks, noise, social isolation, and the urban heat island effect. Your preference for steel and concrete over living ecosystems doesn’t change the fact that those ecosystems keep you alive.

You identify as an anarchist (lol, of course you do) but you admire “Soviet tech optimism” which was based on central planning, state control and authoritarianism. You argue in favor of neoliberalism which is directly opposed to anarchism. You claim to be anti-degrowth and pro-sustainability, yet degrowth promotes sustainable technology. Your political viewpoints are a confused, incoherent mess and maybe someone more knowledgeable than me in that area will take the time to point out your other contradictory statements and misrepresentations.

You don’t consider what happens if most plant and animal species die, or its devastating effects on food production, the climate and human survival. None of that matters to you because your worldview doesn’t extend beyond your home and wifi network. Of course the fact that billions of people find comfort and purpose in nature is incomprehensible to someone like you whose life is devoid of meaning.

Your “meat flesh prison” comments are especially pathetic considering that all human experience (including your miserable urban-online existence) is mediated by biology. You can delude yourself into believing you’re above the disorder of the natural world, but you still rely on the very biological processes you claim to despise.

This is an embarrassingly bad take and you come across as someone incapable of forming real human connections. Most of the rest of us will be out embracing the chaos, beauty and unpredictability of the real world while you wither away, unhappy and unfulfilled, in the sterile prison you’ve created for yourself.

I’m in the US and a store a few minutes away sells Keogh’s chips which are Irish. My girlfriend is crazy about them so I buy a bag every time I go there.

Don’t forget Gårdschips!

Haha yeah that’s a tough one! I’m in Colorado where Colorado potatoes are almost as ubiquitous as Idaho potatoes, so honestly lucked out there.

As an American mine is Europe/Canada > the rest of the developed world OR blue states > Mexico > other countries > red states. It’s surprisingly easy to avoid food from red states. For tech/online services I prefer European over everywhere else.

Every day those of us who voted against this shit are horrified reading the news. Before the election we warned everyone who would listen that a second Trump administration would be the end of this country as we know it. MAGA is well on their way to realizing Project 2025 and our institutions and leaders that were supposed to protect us have completely failed us.

MAGA will continue destroying our institutions, they’ll start disappearing more political opponents and they’ll keep threatening the countries that were once our closest friends. Things will only get worse and a lot more violent. Most Americans won’t fully realize what’s happening because our media is controlled by MAGA billionaires and over the past half century conservatives have successfully dismantled public education to the point where half of Americans are too stupid to be able to distinguish between facts and opinions.

And yet so far nothing has really changed for the vast majority of Americans, their day-to-day lives remain the same and things more or less function as they always have. They’re comfortable enough that they’re not going to risk their life or imprisonment to rise up against this fascist regime, if they’re even aware of what’s happening. The ones that are informed and care will attend rallies, listen to NPR and write their representatives.

So I completely understand you want to see Americans go French Revolution on MAGA, but this is the reality of the situation here. Americans are too comfortable, stupid and whipped to mount any substantial resistance to MAGA.

Salmiak is not popular worldwide. I love salmiak, but almost no one I mention it to is familiar with it.

I use Inleed and I’m really happy with them. It’s a Swedish company with servers in Sweden and France. My WordPress site was super easy to set up through them. Hosting is as cheap as €2/month and you can buy your domain through them too.

If I lived in Europe and was looking to buy a new phone, I’d consider getting a Fairphone (Dutch) pre-installed with /e/OS (French degoogled OS).

My favorite gum is Swedish and made by Flux. It contains fluoride. It’s usually sold in pharmacies in Sweden and you might find it in the other Nordic countries as well as in Germany. I live in the US and have family in Sweden, so every time I visit I take a bunch of Flux gum back to the states.

Absolutely avoid traveling to the US if you don’t have to, but New York and New Orleans aren’t total dumps as portrayed by these cherry picked images. I’ll also point out that residents of both those cities overwhelmingly oppose Trump and vote heavily Democratic. And New Prague? Never heard of it!

Agree, I’m in Colorado and Mammut is well loved here (I own a Mammut jacket myself). Haglöfs makes top-notch backpacks and I wore exclusively Salomon shoes for over a decade before switching to zero-drop.

Most of these European brands are pretty easily found here if you know where to look. As for the American brands, Columbia is utter trash and Marmot isn’t much better.

I was at the rally! I was one of the last people let inside before they closed the gate, and thousands of people that didn’t get inside watched and listened from outside of the fencing, so the actual number was more than 34,000.

Here’s a photo I took…

And here’s Bernie…

I switched from DuckDuckGo to Qwant a week ago and so far I’m happy with it. I’m in the US and it does a great job returning search results that are relevant to me here, even though it’s intended for people in Europe.

I also switched from Gmail to Posteo, ChatGPT to Le Chat and Firefox to Waterfox.

I plan to replace Google Drive with Nextcloud, sometime in the next few months when I have the time to set it up.

Google Maps will be the hardest to replace. I’ve tried 8 or so competitors and they all pale in comparison.

I switched to Posteo too and it’s perfect for my needs.

I’m in the US and people have been recommending this site for weeks and I don’t get it.

Why blindly trust them? There’s almost no info about how they arrive at their ratings and no sources provided anywhere. These could be completely made up numbers for all we know.

I wish there was a better site to use for this purpose because this one leaves so much to be desired.

I ditched Spotify recently after it started pushing MAGA/Musk content for no reason. I tried Deezer and Qobuz and really wanted to like them, but Qobuz had the most godawful terrible recommendations and Deezer’s Android app had poorly designed navigation and felt like it hadn’t been updated in a decade.

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