I am as well

Not everything is about the US though

Plus, if they sell to people in the EU they need to charge VAT anyway on the shipping. Some exception apply, but you as a person will not run into them.

As somebody who works as an accountant: The web version of Excel is shit and the desktop version is far superior.

Things like extensions, power query among other things just exist in the desktop app and not in the web app.

I switched to Linux Mint saldy I need Windows for some things so I dual booted. Got sick of that, so now I have a VM with Tiny11.

But it has been miles better than gmail for decades.

There is a difference on how the holiday season go based on religion, but also based on country. Like f.e. in The Netherlands the gifts are more traditionally exchanged on the 5th of December because we have Sinterklaas then, which is basically based on the same Saint Nicholas.

Living in The Netherlands means I can check out with iDeal (will become Wero) and often even without an account.

With Amazon I have to check I am on the right store to get actually normal priced shipping (3-5 euro instead of 20-30 euro). If they have something on Amazon.com I can only pay with a creditcard instead of all the normal options other versions of Amazon offer. The only thing Amazon does correct and most other North American stores don’t is add the tax to the price which they are supposed to do.

Same in Europe when buying from North America stores. Listed price is 100 USD so I assume it will be 100 EUR, by the time I received the item I have paid close to 160 EUR and often you need to spend going through filling in your information before it gives you that total price and sometimes they unfairly compete with their prices before tax with other stores with prices after tax. Which is illegal, but hey/

In most places the tax is included in the price and often mandatory because nearly every country in the world can figure out a way to do exactly that.

A lot of webshops in The Netherlands refund the full purchase price including shipping and the bigger once also pay for the return shipment.

The US is less one country than the EU members are and we are a long way off of becoming one.

Yeah ofc, it’s another way of funding a company and the investors want their return on investment as well. Our savings, pensions, index funds etc are also investing in these publicly traded companies and we also want whatever roi we can get.

Governments just need to do their fucking job to prevent ani consumerism. But considering there are still a lot of people defending stupid rules and regulations (especially about anti consumer practises in the US) I doubt it will change anytime soon.

It’s so dense and stupid to generalise everybody. It’s not like the US has more than 2 parties to vote on and the country is already having an us vs then mentality which cause people of the “other side” to disprove of anything the “other side” does. Does comprise even exist in US dictionaries?

Probably 10-15 years ago or something

Yup, but most people have savings or some kind of pension, both are often put into the stock market by the bank or pension fund to give us the interest we want.

We need to try and exercise more of our power as stakeholder in these companies, in the end we still have the power to not use products from these massive corporations. Stop order from shit like Amazon, but go and order from smaller stores, switch search engine and browser, etc.

I bought it because 7-zip was shit back then so yeah ill stick with WinRar

Meanwhile Google wont even update street adresses that are 10+ years wrong ffs

Because we live in 2025 and swearing hasn’t really been sensored for decades? Or is the US not following that trend either?

People should really learn to understand that there is a lot more nuance to be had around politics. Having criticism on somebody doesn’t mean you sight up to “the other side”.

Thank you for sharing your criticism

It’s calles the Gulf of Mexico, people should stop using different names in different languages and use the actual name.

Like The Netherlands is called The Netherlands and two of it’s provinces are called Holland