We were tied with US companies for our business, and this year I decided that I was done with that crap, got a VPS, and MXroute for the company email, deployed Next loud, ans we’re saving around 6,500 dollars per year on infrastructure (used to be it cost us 6000 yearly 😁) and nobody Ia trying to upsell us on shit we don’t need or want.
Drop them all, they’re just expensive garbage anyway.
is all this deserves in response.
Goat Gardener says that removing cabbage from the garden is bad.
Even if it where true: That is money well spend. 115 billion over 10 years is not that much for 27 countries combined anyway.
Afaik the EU27 countries public expenditure for 2025 alone was 9.32 trillion[1]. So we are talking about ~11 billion a year vs 9.32 trillion which is ~0.1% of public expenditure of the EU27. I think if we want we can handle that.
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/GOV_10A_MAIN/default/table?lang=en
Don’t forget all the new local companies and jobs that will pop up to keep their systems online.
Translation: US Tech giants discovered their hostile actions cost them their customers.
Canada needs to ditch US tech giants as well. Long live the Fediverse!
Joining EU might help with that.
Money well spent 💅
And staying with the USA might cost 100 billion per year in overpriced fossil fuels contacts and cleaning up USA’s military adventures.
Oh no… They’ll have to find some other countries to funnel their tax avoidance through. Might I recommend Russia now that Trump is pals with Vlad?
My landlord told me it would be expensive to buy my house too and yet
Totally worth it and we’ll recoup a large chunk since the money will be going to companies that pay their taxes. Not doing this isn’t even an option anymore.
Cost who?
I thought America didn’t need anybody else? According to the clown in charge.
And not ditching them would cost them €511B
