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Snuggledick von Scratchensniff, soup-centric saint of rude dogs turned son of a bitch just to spite Muscovy.

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"Too Good To Go", Danish company that helps prevent food waste and save money on food at the same time
  • Ok but even if that was the case and they produce too much because they can sell the rest at a discount, it's not really "too much" if everything gets sold and eaten. Why would they produce less than there's demand for? I don't really see a problem as long as the food doesn't end up in a trash can.

  • "Too Good To Go", Danish company that helps prevent food waste and save money on food at the same time
  • But if someone buys and eats the food then it's not wasted, is it?

  • "Too Good To Go", Danish company that helps prevent food waste and save money on food at the same time
  • I disagree, at least don't see that for any of the stores participating in my area. They don't like overproducing either, everything they throw away is a loss for them. But it's also difficult to predict how much you'll be able to sell on any given day. Bakeries for example usually bake only once a day in the early morning and they have to make an educated guess about how much of each item will be sold that day, but it's never gonna be a perfect guess. Sometimes they're out early, a few customers will be disappointed and the shop will make a tiny bit less profit that day, and some other times they produce a bit too much that they won't be able to sell the next day so they'd have to throw it out. I just don't see how it's greenwashing trying to avoid that by finding takers for the extra stuff using this app. If someone eats the food then it's not wasted food.

  • "Too Good To Go", Danish company that helps prevent food waste and save money on food at the same time
  • Yeah, I've tried a bunch of places at first but now I have 4-5 favorite ones that always have good stuff. Some restaurants seem to use the app more as advertisement to get more people visiting, but I think that's fair too when they offer a meal for half the price in return. Also I never got any bad deals, it was always a good bargain even if I didn't end up liking what I got. It's kind of a plus for the app actually in my opinion because that I tried many new places that I'd normally not care about just because they were in the app, and I found some really nice ones this way.

  • Pinterest alternatives?
  • Ah I see, I thought it was about sharing stuff with your partner. No idea then. :/

    EDIT: Oh I just realized the person I replied to wasn't you, nevermind then. :)

  • Pinterest alternatives?
  • Sounds like any "visual bookmarking" tool would work for that. You could check out https://www.pearltrees.com/ for example (France).

  • Pinterest alternatives?
  • Always wondered this too! It's more of annoyance really cause it always shows up in image searches but then you can't download the full size image without getting an account, I've actually been looking for ways to block that page in my search results.

  • "Too Good To Go", Danish company that helps prevent food waste and save money on food at the same time

    www.toogoodtogo.com Save Good Food From Going To Waste - Too Good To Go

    Too Good To Go app is the world's largest surplus food marketplace. Download now and enjoy good food at 1/2 price or less, help the environment and reduce food waste.

    Save Good Food From Going To Waste - Too Good To Go

    I've been using their app for some time now and really like the concept: Basically it allows restaurants, bakeries, supermarkets etc to announce when they have stuff leftover that they'd usually throw away at the end of the day. You can browse those nearby shops in the app and reserve a "surprise bag" for a small amount, usually around a third of the regular price, but it varies. In the pickup timeframe (usally around 30-60min before their closing time) you go there, show that you've reserved the bag in your app, confirm that you've received it and happily walk home with a ton of surprise food for super cheap.

    After using it for a while I can especially recommend looking for food stalls at farmers markets as they often have lots of stuff leftover that they don't want to take back home when packing up so they're often super generous. Bakeries are also great, I regularly get a week's supply of bread, buns, pastries and cake for like 3-5€.

    EDIT: While it's made in Denmark the app works globally or at least all of EuropeAFAIK, definitely works fine with lots of participating shops in Germany.

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    MAGARegrets is Trending!
  • So, RFK is literally Jesus for preaching God's will that kids must die from measles? 🤔

  • European Skype alternative?
  • Yeah, for me the main point is not to help US companies make money, either by paying them directly or by giving them my data which they can can sell. With open source software that's covered most of the time, especially when self-hosted.

  • The german political Party of Progress officially supports BuyFromEU. The party has one seat in the EU parliament. "We support the strenghtening of european producers in times of global trade conflict
  • That's cool and all but it's a tiny obscure party that got 0.0% in the recent elections (they did get some votes but not measurable with only one decimal), so I'm afraid their approval of this movement won't have a huge impact.

  • Italian defence firm Leonardo to boost capacity amid geopolitical risks
  • Will "it would've been way cheaper if they hadn't ignored every single wake-up call in the last 10 years and started investing in defense earlier but it still needs to get fucking done and FAST or there won't be a democracy with polls anymore and your precious money is taken by Russian occupiers" be an option in that poll?

  • European Skype alternative?
  • But since the software is open source you can just take it and host it yourself, so no American company involved anymore.

  • Tesla warns Trump administration it is ‘exposed’ to retaliatory tariffs
  • I mean, yes they're not entirely wrong. On the other hand, at this point it doesn't really matter anymore. No one's buying that shit even at current prices, increasing prices with tariffs can't really make that any worse IMO.

  • We’re all living longer, but Mediterraneans live longest in EU, says Eurostat
  • Relevant research that just won an ig nobel prize.

    tl;dr: they don't live longer, they just don't report their dead relatives and pocket the pensions.

    https://www.medicalrepublic.com.au/maybe-its-the-mediterranean-diet-maybe-its-pension-fraud/110766

  • Weather applications
  • I don't mind the UI, but I also mostly use it as widget on the home screen where it blends in quite nicely.

    Outside Europe I have no idea, I'd just give it a try and see what shows up. I've used it on vacations in other EU countries though and it always worked just fine.

  • People who joined Lemmy in the last few days thanks to posts on /r/buyfromEU, how are you doing?
  • Well here's the thing, if no one shows up then there's nothing to moderate, and if people show up you can make one or several of moderators. ;) But you'll never find out unless you create a community.

  • gizmodo.com Russia Is 'Grooming' Global AI Models to Cite Propaganda Sources

    Instead of targeting human readers, Russian propaganda mills have pivoted to manipulating AI models instead.

    Russia Is 'Grooming' Global AI Models to Cite Propaganda Sources

    Russia is manipulating global AI models by embedding its propaganda within them, a tactic termed "AI grooming," which raises concerns about the potential influence of these models on public opinion and the reliability of information disseminated by AI systems.

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    [EN] ARTE - La plateforme culturelle européenne | Direct, replay et +
  • Just talked about this in the comments of another post. If you already have a VPN it might be worth checking out the libraries of German public broadcasting services ZDF and ARD as well, they too have an impressive selection of series and movies. Most are European productions but there's also some popular US/Netflix stuff. For example ZDF has the series Rookie for free at the moment. Content is German but they often/usually also have original audio for non-german productions.

    I've cancelled all my streaming services lately and grew to really like the offers of public broadcasters. It would be great if we could assemble a list of European public broadcasters along with some relevant information, for example if they're geoblocking (VPN required), which languages they usually offer and so on.

  • European public broadcasters launch joint trusted news portal
  • Yeah that's annoying, and the page relies heavily on JavaScript, not even article links work without JS, otherwise I'd make my own feed/have the page crawled by inoreader. :/

  • TIFF Unlimited is a great Netflix alternative if you're also looking to get European content
  • Germany's public broadcasting services have pretty decent streaming sites too, mostly European productions (love all those dark Scandinavian crime thrillers) but also even some US blockbusters. Unfortunately geoblocked as well but a VPN should fix that. ZDF and ARD are the two big ones and then there's a bunch of regional ones in top, however they share most their content between them so chances are you'll only need one of those pages.

    Age restriction is a thing here too but only necessary until 22:00, apparently they assume kids are all in bed then and they don't need to check your age anymore. :)

    EDIT: Arte is a French/German cooperation BTW, they have both French and German productions and everything gets dubbed in French/German respectively.

  • news.err.ee European public broadcasters launch joint trusted news portal

    YEP News, a new multilingual news platform officially launched Tuesday, aims to provide trusted journalism from European public service media. By leveraging AI alongside human oversight, it curates and translates news stories into five major European languages, making quality journalism more accessi...

    European public broadcasters launch joint trusted news portal

    Direct link to the news site but the article is worth reading as well to learn what it's about. Basically a bunch of European public broadcasters teamed up to make a news site where you can find interesting news from all over Europe that you'd otherwise probably miss.

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    Welcome fellas!

    Welcome to the brand new NAFO community on Lemmy!

    I just created this community because I thought it's weird that there wasn't one already, let's see how this goes. This might be a good palce for more in-depth discussions, promoting fundraisers, organizing stuff and so on.

    If you're completely new to Lemmy, here is a good way to start. It doesn't matter on which instance you create an account, you can still search all over the fediverse and subscribe to this community on lemm.ee.

    Here is a list of clients/apps for Lemmy.

    Some other relevant communities worth checking out:

    Ukraine news: [email protected]

    Buy European, defund Trump: [email protected]

    Same but for Canadians: [email protected]

    Will add more if I can think of any, suggestions welcome!

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