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[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 144 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I want to cancel my american owned subscriptions and I'm a american

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 56 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 10 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (8 children)

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.

[–] Fredthefishlord@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 2 months ago

Friendly reminder that practically speaking most countries have committed genocide if they've been around longer than a century ish.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everywhere in the world had slavery.

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[–] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 29 points 2 months ago (17 children)

Eagerly awaiting European owned competitors to american big tech products

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It might not cover everything, but here’s a nice list:
https://european-alternatives.eu/

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[–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 14 points 2 months ago

https://cryptpad.fr as an alternative to Googles online office suite.

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.

[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

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.

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[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago

The real cancel culture.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then do it, is someone holding a gun to your head?

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 14 points 2 months ago

Real American question

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

Haha I don't actually have any to cancel.

[–] modifier@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Do it. I canceled all my streaming and music subscriptions about a year ago and would highly recommend it to all right thinking people.

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[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 73 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Canada here! Literally cancelled Netflix last week and talked to my SO about using the money instead to pay for a seedbox lol.

Also trying to do a grocery run without buying any American products is a challenge but doable! Loading up on Dr. Oetkers pizza and Romanian pasta

[–] StaticFlow@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Are there some good Canadian seed boxes?

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

WTF, I always thought Dr. Oetker was just another brand of some American multinational. It's apparently German.

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[–] sykael@startrek.website 67 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just a reminder to use your local library, they'll often have plenty of movies and TV shows to rent either at a very low price or fully free. Perfect complement for the seven seas

[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 15 points 2 months ago

Local library here has streaming services with lots of classic movies (watched some Akira Kurosawa flicks). And other streaming services thru there have educational kids' stuff. Also, free museum passes. Telescopes. Musical instruments. Video games. Online newspapers and magazines. Pretty badass.

[–] bababu@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago

some libraries even have a small streaming service, so you don't have to leave the house

[–] CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 months ago

Local libraries rock.

[–] tazzy@lemm.ee 36 points 2 months ago

Cancelled my Netflix and prime and subbed to CBC gem.

One big problem with our country is that our own identity and culture has been eroded by American pop culture. It’s honestly good to get away from American media and focus on Canadian made content otherwise we our identity and culture just blends into American culture and I hate that.

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 35 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Canadians were some of the OG tv pirates. They were the hookup for hacked satellite boxes in the 90's.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 9 points 2 months ago

It's why most of the shows I watched as a kid had the maple leaf in the corner.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I tried searching for this but only found recent news. Anywhere I can read about this? Wikipedia, article, or book?

I love tech history.

[–] seathru@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

There's a little bit in this Wikipedia article but I can't find much either.

IIRC it mostly stemmed from a lot of US tv channels not being available in Canada at the time. So to make them available, they started hacking satellite descramblers and Direct TV cards. Then they found a giant market in the US willing to buy these boxes and cards to get free tv.

There were people in the US making them too, but the Canadian stuff was more reliable and updated quicker when Direct TV changed codes.

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[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] ODGreen@slrpnk.net 23 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Nice rock you live under.

Trump's been threatening to Anschluss Canada as the 51st state and been planning on tariffs and other fuckery to harm Canada. So a lot of Canadians are cancelling services provided by US-based companies and pirating entertainment instead.

[–] rfr_Foglia@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago

I did know about the 51st state thing but wanted to know more about the boycott. thanks.

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[–] ad_on_is@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Hey Canada, just so you know: I'm an European, and I watch "Son of a Critch" and "Shoresy"

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] albert180@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the reminder. Just cancelled

[–] Yerbouti@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Suckers come from both sides of the border

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 7 points 2 months ago

Ukraine had to start banning Russia funded slop after the invasion...

Maybe doing it before the invasion would have been better.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

regardless, this would be a good time for countries to strengthen laws protecting against foreign ownership of media companies and heavily regulating foreign media companies operating in countries instead of opening up the floodgates and letting american companies control the culture.

[–] Aconite@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago

I cancelled two weeks ago expecting it to be difficult, but I don't really miss it. Maybe something happens when you get old, but I just don't have the will to commit to a series or a binge watch anymore. What I've started doing is borrowing movies at the library, which is free and takes forever, but is oddly charming.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

the quality and selection are better on certain websites with weird little cartoon character avatars

[–] DaveX64@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eco-Max makes good dish soap and other products like that here in Canada...free shipping in Canada and you can get it at Walmart:

https://store.eco-max.com/

[–] Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Did you mean to comment this somewhere else? Or am I just not getting something?

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