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The U.S. boycott remains strong. Why many Canadians are digging in their heels | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)

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[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Canadian investors divested from U.S. equity funds in the first quarter at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic, moving their money into more conservative investments, according to a new report from Sun Life SLF-T.  But people aren’t cashing out. Overall withdrawal rates remained stable, suggesting that investors are staying committed to their long-term savings.

[–] No_Eponym@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I mean, he is actively cutting the SEC for his own scamy benefit, he is tanking the dollar, he is ruining the economy, he is defenestrating the rule of law and due process, and he is doing his best to overthrow the federal reserve. Also, Republicans kind of hate a lot of the companies in the Mag 7 and are all on board for antitrust suits against woke oligopolies. If equities are investments you hold for the long haul, regardless of how the US has done in the past, how can you see current actions working out well for investment in the future?

Get off the American meme stock market rocket, chances are growing it will do a SpaceX to your investments.

[–] StarshotJohn@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (19 children)

I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya'll not watch/play any American media?

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

I only watch US media with Canadian actors. So, I guess most of it.

[–] rumimevlevi@lemmings.world 1 points 2 days ago

I pirate them

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Only sort of facetiously, it's all filmed up here anyway.

Yes, the tech and media giants are harder to avoid. Ali Express has left a lot to be desired as an Amazon replacement, although I haven't quite given up. For streaming, CBC Gem is publicly funded. The boycott is mainly targeted at physical products.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Speak for yourself and being mainly physically targeted, I came to Lemmy to get off of Reddit, I miss the local community as many people do not have the interest in figuring out Lemmy. I have cancelled all of my streaming services from the US, if there is something I want to see that is strickly on a streaming service I put on my pirates hat and sail the high C’s, other wise I watch it on the Canadian Channels app (with my pihole on so that I do not see ads so that it becomes less valuable for the Canadian channel to continue paying for it) I subscribed to CBC Gem+ or whatever it is called and watch Canadian content on there. I us Unwatched to watch YouTube so that I am not paying Google, I feel for the non US videos I watch but they are still getting money from Google but Google is not getting it from me.

One of the first buy Canadian things I did was move my blog hosting from a US provider to hosthero.ca and changed it from .com to .ca then I looked at my iCloud stuff and started finding other options. Sure they are not all together anymore and do not easily communicate together it is however far less expensive than what I was doing before. I was using Apple’s hide my email feature I had 60 some email address (I think). After going through all those addresses and finding out what was dead or not I moved something like 45 addresses to my hosthero email server, and I started moving more things that did not already have their separate email address to my address. I would later find out that my ISP changed to an exchange server, I have no idea if they have to pay Microsoft for that or what but I have been transitioning all of the emails I get from there to there own email address. This is not a short process and I am up to 120 some email addresses, all of the pseudo-random email addresses are forwarded to 1 of 5 email accounts that I check. I can have unlimited free trials for things if I so choose (have not done that with this yet, I had done this a couple of times for things in my iCloud days). I do not trust myself with hosting my own password manager so bitwarden is not really an option for me so I went with 1password, for my cloud storage I just downloaded everything to one of my pi’s but I was having all kinds of difficulties with hosting my own VPN and NextCloud crashed on me a couple of times so I decided to go with sync.com. If there was any real competition for youtube I would not be sneaking in via other apps I would be using the real alternative platform.

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[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sometimes, though I have been prioritizing CBC originals lately I'm still finishing Handmaids Tale

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[+] atro_city@fedia.io -9 points 3 days ago (12 children)

What about US tech?

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What US tech? You mean the tech they buy from south-east Asia and slap their logos on?

[–] Subscript5676@lemmy.ca 7 points 3 days ago

While it’s true there’s a lot of that, AWS just dominates the cloud, and many of our own tech companies here in Canada use AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, not because they’re cheap, but because they have good uptime guarantees, security guarantees, easily allow you to deploy worldwide and provide fast access to customers almost everywhere (especially major markets like the EU and Asia), and provides companies access to a large talent pool who know how to use these systems. You’d be hard-pressed, as a business owner and/or CTO, to use other options and handle all those downsides yourself, slowing down your ability to do business. The only other potential non-US alternative here is probably Alibaba, but they’re not even close to being considered competition internationally.

Aside from Apple, the big tech companies down south are big and hard to displace not because of what most people know them for, but because of this large arm of software infrastructure that basically serves as the literal backbone of the consumer-side of the Internet.

And for those who think that we can just build that infrastructure ourselves, take note that these companies have been doing this for at least a decade, and spent billions and probably trillions doing this in the US and abroad. AWS itself claims that between 2011 and 2022, it invested $108.9 billion in USD, just within the US alone, and they have data centres in many parts of the world. Not discouraging anyone, but you have to think about where that kind of money has to come from.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I divested from US tech decades before it was cool.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pepperidge farm remembers! (Is there a famous canadian farm one could use in this meme?)

[–] stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago

Uhh... Probably don't want to use that one.

[–] Reannlegge@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I have stopped paying for US services, my future computers will either be from outside of the US, or used with a clean install of some flavour of Linux. It will be difficult to transition myself away from Apple when the time comes to update my phone or tablet but it will happen eventually, there are plenty of non US phone and tablet makers who do not use iOS or Android. Once Trump burns down the US even more competition will come around.

After reading some more of your replies, I have personally dropped almost all of my US online stuff. Apple still has some to backup my iPhone and iPad but I am trying to get away from that to, it just involves me figuring out what is up with my old Mac and getting sync setup on there and backing up my iPhone and iPad onto sync via my Mac.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago

What about it?

[–] BeBopaLula@piefed.ca -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Is this “us tech” in the room with us now?

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

It might be listening in an destroying your democracy. It might also just be the tinfoil hat scratching against my ear.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes.

There is likely a device running US software in the room you are in.

[–] BeBopaLula@piefed.ca -1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It was a psychiatric question. Zoooom.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know the joke, but it doesn't really work in contexts where the answer is just "yes."

[–] BeBopaLula@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Hmm did you not see the second half of what you wrote?

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