petrescatraian

Wait, can you actually purchase music through Qobuz? And download it for an unlimited number of times in different formats (mp3, ogg, flac etc.)?

@Lennarthellman wish there was something European for purchasing music as well. Bandcamp is nice, but it's too much money I'm giving to the US on every purchase.

@dogerwaul They'll probably just brand it as a sales platform and not care about sellers anymore. They'll get some cut from every sale, and along with the ad business they'll have lots of profit.

Russky Mir

@zaxvenz One of the few moments I'm proud of my country. Probably the annulment of elections last autumn here made other European countries aware that not anyone can run for a public office if they act against democracy. We also had another candidate that was barred from entry two times, but that one was more prominent than Călin-Russian-wisdom-Georgescu.

For big purchases it doesn't, indeed. But for online shopping, would it work if you select payment on delivery at checkout, maybe?

CC: @EUCommission

Done. Hopefully they'll see my tag

@coldsideofyourpillow No worries, thank you!

And the idea would be to have something even my grandma can use, not some nerdy solution, any thoughts?

Use cash

A well-deserved achievement. Well done, @Tutanota!

@latenightnoir well, we needed a landmark and the US was there for us right as we left communism. However we mostly failed to internalize its values and we kept things going even after joining the EU. Most of the European values seem like they're more at home in the Western Europe (France, Germany, Austria, BeNeLux, the Scandinavian countries, hell, even the UK) than in Eastern Europe and in particular in Romania (can't really tell about how our former Warsaw pact neighbors are doing).

For most of the population (except most of the richer and educated class in the bigger cities), America is the land of the brave, home of the free, the land of all possibilities that they see in those cheap Hollywood movies they see on TV every evening.

@zaxvenz kinda common among European conservatives. They all act like everything's business as usual and we can still rely on the US and the West still has a collective voice. Here in Romania basically everyone is interpreting the White House administration's policies as a good thing (edit: or at least fairly justified). They'll be in for a surprise in the next 4 years.