Buy European

I’m having a bit of an ethical dilemma - I currently work for a large-ish American fashion retailer that sells a lot of European brands. It’s been a pleasure seeing a bunch of brands that we sell show up here. I’m in need of new jeans and have been considering shopping after work since I also get a staff discount.

The company itself fits my core values and hasn’t abandoned DEI, which is the main reason I’m considering a purchase. It is, however, still an American company and while the clothing is European, the money would still go to an American company and into their economy. For additional context, I’m in The Netherlands.

Thoughts? I’m currently on my way to a shift and won’t be able to immediately reply — wanted to post before I forgot :3

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I’m from latam working for an American company, I don’t want to help American companies anymore, I work as a CRM specialist for b2b saas and I don’t see big job boards like LinkedIn.

It's hard to find clothing not made in Asia. So I wanted to shout out Community Clothing, of Patrick Grant, Great British Sewing Bee fame. It's where I buy most stuff now, and I love it.

Hey. I know, a bit special interest and maybe not the right place for this but i was thinking about animated characters from europe as part of its cultural DNA and then startet to research them for all the countries including where to buy merch (to also support that industry). I will hopefully be able to comlete the list over time but i would be happy about help and feedback. So here is what i got so far:

European animation characters (sometimes with merch) in no particular order:

Finland - Moomins, Angry Birds adaptations: https://shop.moomin.com/collections/all

France - Asterix, TinTin, edit: + les Shadoks, OuiOui, Barbapapas https://boutique.asterix.com/de/ https://thetintinshop.uk.com/

Belgium - lucky luke, edit: also TinTin, Spirou & Fantasio, The Smurfs, Marsupilami

Poland - Lolek and Bolek, edit: +Reksio

Netherlands - Alfred j. Kwak, nijntje, edit: + Miffy: https://www.dewinkelvannijntje.nl/en/

Czech republic - krtek, edit: + Pat and Mat: https://czechmovie.com/collections/little-mole-krtek?page=2 https://www.czech-stuff.com/krtek-little-mole/

Spain - Mortadelo and Filemón, Superlópez, Pocoyó, The Telerín Family

Switzerland - globi, pingu, edit: + Titeuf: https://globi.ch/ https://www.pingu-store.jp/ (can't find a european one)

Portugal - tic tac tales

Italy - calimero, edit: + Corto Maltese, mio mao

Greece - Pandora and Plato

Sweden - Bamse, petterson and findus, the little ghost laban, editv + Lippi Longstocking, Arne Anka

Norway - Elias the little rescue boat, Ella Bella Bingo

Iceland - some lazy town characters

Denmark - Rita & Crocodile, Valiant Prince Ivandoe

Germany - the mouse, bernd the bread, cptn. Blaubär, edit: + the sandman, Werner, the little Asshole: https://www.logoshirt-shop.de/en/COLLECTION/The-Show-with-the-Mouse/ https://mausundmehr.com/ https://www.spreadshirt.de/shop/bernd+das+brot/

UK - wallace and gromit, paddington bear, danger mouse: https://wallaceandgromitvmf.shop/ https://store.paddington.com/ https://www.truffleshuffle.co.uk/cartoons/dangermouse

Ireland - puffin rock, Kiva can do, edit: + the book of kells, song of the sea, and wolfwalkers

Malta - ?

Cyprus - ?

Lithuania - ?

Latvia - Flow

Estonia - ?

Slovakia - ?

Slovenia - Medved Bojan

Croatia - Profesor Baltazar

Bulgaria - ?

Serbia - ?

North macedonia - ?

Montenegro - ?

Bosnia Herzegowina - ?

Albania - ?

Romania - ?

Moldova - ?

Austria - ?

Hungary - The rabbit with checkered ears, Frakk, pom pom, Mézga family, Szaffi, King Matthias, Magyar Népmesék, Ludas Matyi

Also nice read: animationineurope.eu

I've recently found out that Garnier is affiliated with Nestlé which is awful. Been using their bleach for a while now because it's affordable and vegan compared to other brands which aren't specifically marked as vegan.

Do any of you guys have recommendations?

Hello, I got a comment on my previous post recommending I post it here as well.

I had the Philips one but after about a year it's suction changed to the point where it's hard for it to pick up cat litter now..

It must be able to deal with a lot of cat hair and litter.. and preferably be under 500 euros.

Of course I think a corded one is better for my purposes, and I have mostly hard floors with a few small rugs.

The problem is that every year the quality decreases, so it becomes difficult to know which vacuums will still be good. For example, someone may have purchased the same vacuum 5 years ago and think it's great but the one sold today might not compare

Objectives

This initiative calls to require publishers that sell or license videogames to consumers in the European Union (or related features and assets sold for videogames they operate) to leave said videogames in a functional (playable) state.

Specifically, the initiative seeks to prevent the remote disabling of videogames by the publishers, before providing reasonable means to continue functioning of said videogames without the involvement from the side of the publisher.

Just saw that https://www.fractal-design.com/products/chairs/refine/refine/fabric-light/ had some chairs, any other suggestions?

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