Mr Crabs is definitely not acting as if he was a CEO of a million $ company.

It’s not either or!

I agree with all of you, but…

We need institutions that can both challenge and rival Big Tech. EU has been doing okay, great in comparison, regulating Big Tech. Small to medium companies have big part of the market, but are constantly eaten up big bigger ones, and have hard time combating many mono/duopolies (like mail or social media, which technically are easy to keep diversified).

I don’t know what is the answer. Federation that do not collaborate with Big Tech - thank you, Fedi - are a great way forward. Consumer movements (e.g., Buy European) and smaller companies getting their niches working with Big Tech and only slowly diverging from it (see, e.g., Ecosia) can also have an impact.

The article poses a wrong question. But a related question is interesting: How do we challenge Big Tech at scale? In this sense, Europe not having any tech giants might be lucky for the world at large, as we still have enough power, talent, and influence to pose the challenge. How do we do that?

I’ve lived in Poland and Sweden.

In Poland, Allegro dominates, it’s much more convenient than Amazon.

In Sweden, I used Amazon once. There is no other general website like that I know of for first-hand stuff, buy you can get half-price new stuff from sites like Tradera or Blocket, or Vinted (very European), or Sellpy. I would try to pass by a charity store first, but for example for shoes it is very hard to find what I am looking for and in size 47 there.

For first-hand stuff, in Sweden, I just search (or know websites for the kind of product I am looking for), and rarely would Amazon be even competitive. For example, to buy books I often use Adlibris, and while it is not as nice as the local bookstore, they do sometimes have things I would have trouble finding otherwise (including a broad selection of books in English).

That moment when you criticize China on a community hosted at lemmy.ml

American AF. It’s just their Dutch daughter company doing the official purchase for legal reasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyndryl?wprov=sfla1

How is this anti-trans?

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for. Understanding how memes are used for, sniff, ideological reasons, is what I’m interested here. I appreciate the antimeme nevertheless.

What was the original?

Lol, this is the dumbest thing I’ve heard in the long time (The story about sitting making the workers lazy, your comment explains it great, thanks!).

Wait, what? Do cashier’s stands in other shops in US?

Yeah. The Swedish government should have just bought the company (the current one would never do it, though) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If your Finnish… Do you know how it compares to SailfishOS (I guess the latter is more popular in Finland than elsewhere).

Yeah, I think the point about US, Russian or Chinese news is crucial. I will leave US aside for a while - a situation there is very dynamic, they used to be a bit more like the EU in this regard. But in Russia and China, clearly, there is no independent media. They have propaganda instead of public debate. Thus, you hear about positive things happening there, as this is the goal of propaganda. In the EU, there is a vital and highly critical public debate, which focuses on shortcomings. This is a strength, since the issues cannot be just ignored - but the feedback of negative information from the citizens reaches also outsiders. In US, one thing seems to go well - bussiness. And while they sure do get a lot of money, there is also one more kind of propaganda, that might influence the view: marketing. Unfortunately, in a world where in many sectors more capital comes from investors than customers, you can get far with just marketing…

In brief, I think there is an issue of reporting here. Things seem bad in the EU, because bad things are reported in the EU. This reminds me another anecdote: You will read in many places that Nordic countries have low income inequality, but high wealth inequality compared to other countries. Indeed, if you look at the tables, this seems to be the case. You will find many complex mechanistic explanations of this phenomenon on the internet. But if you read into the original Credit Suisse report (https://web.archive.org/web/20250401062226/https://www.credit-suisse.com/media/assets/corporate/docs/about-us/research/publications/global-wealth-databook-2022.pdf), you can find this paragraph:

The distributional data have certain fairly standard features. The unit of analysis is usually a household or family, but is in a few cases the (adult) individual. Household sample surveys are employed in almost all countries. The exceptions are the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden), which use data from tax and other registers covering the entire population. For all other countries, except the United States, the wealth shares of the top groups are expected to be understated because wealthy households are less likely to respond, and because the financial assets that are of greater importance to the wealthy – e.g. equities and bonds – are especially likely to be under-reported.

I’ve been using it for a few months. Runs smooth and is easy/intuitive to use. Got me off Google Photos and One Drive in one go. I love their blog, it was one of the main reasons why I chose them, since they describe very well how to do different custom things (e.g. setting up Joplin sync, or downloading photos from Facebook before you delete them/your account).

I thought this is exactly what this project addresses?

It’s my arm!

Well, at least you will be able to scroll Lemmy at high speed as you stay extra 2h onboard the train ¯_(ツ)_/¯

I used to search with Ecosia, but the Bing-sourced results were sometimes really poor quality. I’ve recently gave one more try to Karma Search. While it worked really poorly earlier this year, I am very positively surprised by the quality of the results! (Of course, the “quality” is my vibe at the moment, and idk if there are good ways to benchmark search engines)

Thanks! BTW, what a beautiful profile picture you have!