The free world is fed up with unhinged threats from the U.S. — and strikes back.
In my opinion, the greatest weapon you have is EU based open source software to replace all Apple, Microsoft, and Google services and products.
100% yes. Open source is not missing this:
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SFKNTZ-welcome_to_fosdem_2026/
Or the more technological political:
https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/
There is an opportunity here to wake people up to how shit so much of tech is and how to improve them. Before it was just nerds and economists who complained of the stifling of competition by the monopolies. Now it’s geopolitical and more and more obvious to more and more people.
I only wish this reached normal people. Most normal people seem to not give 2 shits about buying European. They don’t even try to care. But I do love that the media is making it a thing.
The US is used to having it’s millitary equipment subsidized by foreign buyers, now they are looking elsewhere.
I mean having ten flying Gripens is better than having 20 F-35s stuck on the ground because the US didn’t approve your mission plans and upload them to the fighters from their servers.
While your statement is correct, however per euro you get at least 2 gripens per F35 so the actual case is even more in favour of the gripen
Any good European producers of non enamelled cast iron kitchenware?
I can’t say yet if it’s good or not because it’s my first cast iron skillet and I’ve had it for a bit less than half a year, but so far I’m very happy with Maku and the price is good compared to some others I’ve seen on sale. Family-owned Finnish company based in Tampere, but also available here in Estonia. Don’t know about their availability in other countries.
From their “Sustainability” page:
Maku products are manufactured in Europe, Finland and the Far East in factories that, if located in a high-risk country, are committed to the amfori BSCI Code of Conduct by signing the document or are audited by a third party. We use the amfori Country Risk Classification as our risk country classification.
Edit: Now looking at it apparently it is enamelled cast iron.
I know nothing about this company but the statement that all is good because some manager has signed a document is a bit ridiculous
Oh I just copied that bit along with the bit that some shit is still made in Finland, to convey that not all of it is.
This is from March
Damn, almost two weeks early!
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