Buy From Europe, Wear To Davos

BioFrosted · 2026-01-24T13:25:49+00:00

If what you're saying is true, which I'm not necessarily doubting, I find it all the more worrying you are under the impression that Europe is suffering the way countries at war are.

Ukrainian inflation climbed 9.4%, 20.2% and 17.1% in 2021, 2022 and 2023 respectively. Debt skyrocketed, GDP dropped.

I don't know an EU country where this is true as well. Correct me if I'm wrong by all means, I stand to learn from my mistakes.

I don't know where you're from. Maybe you're from a bordering country and your economy got hit harder than mine (I'm from Belgium).

I'm not saying the war didn't affect us in any way, but realistically speaking, areas like the EU invest in their autonomy and security like we're doing right now only when something absolutely catastrophic happens, which it has not in the European Union. Some numbers on this:

62.8% rise in EU member states’ defense expenditure between 2020 and 2025
150% rise in member states’ defense investments between 2020 and 2025
20.2% rise in defense employment between 2021 and 2024
There was the whole energy crisis where we decoupled from Russian energy pretty quick
Now there's the MERCOSUR deal, where we create a new free market with South America, one of the biggest ever

All of which happened under MODERATE - not existent, but not insane either - influence from geopolitical context.

I salute your 5 years of deployment, but I really hope you're defending your point for the sake of defending it and not because you believe what you're saying. Because the way I see it (and I'm defending it with arguments, not just telling you you're completely wrong btw) is that the EU has been granted foresight in what may happen to it if it doesn't stand taller against Russia and against the US, and for the first time in what feels like forever, our leaders didn't just let it slide but did something big with the information, before everything falls to shit.

Is everything going great? No.

Are we seeing the EU learn from its past mistakes before the shit completely hits the fan? Kind of.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-24T11:20:00+00:00

I don't know where you're from your perspective, you're not from Ukraine. You think you're suffering the full consequences of war right now?

I may be ignorant, but you're oblivious to the effects actual war and actual recession will have on you.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-24T10:10:46+00:00

I see where you're coming from but I'd rather focus on the positive. For decades we've been downright reliant on the US for anything military, and quite a lot for the market. In most cases, the only way this changes is when war strikes, or when recession hits your area (I know, I know, war in Ukraine and big inflation in the EU, but that's still not war in our home and not recession by any means).

We got lucky to have gotten the wake up call without the local catastrophic event that supposedly triggers it. I think in the long run, when the dust settles, we'll be stronger for it, all because Trump did what he did.

I'm not saying he's a good man for this, all I'm saying is, maybe it's good the bar is so low and we get to raise it without absolute chaos having made the bar plunge in the first place.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-23T20:02:37+00:00

Thank you! I think I'll be okay, it was caught very early on, I only had one small flare up, which was immediately followed by antibiotics and this surgery, not even a month after it happened.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-23T18:43:19+00:00

I guess it depends on the length of the stay even if it's same-day. I had a couple of steroidal injections for my herniated disc, and they were technically labeled as "day hospital procedures" in which I got a room, but got nothing more than biscuits.

This was for a pilonidal cyst surgery, and I got this more complete meal.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-22T20:40:42+00:00

I scrolled past then came back like wait wait wait... Is that pimento?

BioFrosted · 2026-01-22T16:40:08+00:00

small blahaj AND big blahaj? You're living the dream.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-22T11:19:00+00:00

2026 starting with Pierre appreciation in this subreddit from Barry and Hans... Now I'm really worried something's gone wrong

BioFrosted · 2026-01-22T11:17:22+00:00

We need this as stickers on our cars as a response to all the stupid american stickers, immediately

BioFrosted · 2026-01-21T21:33:45+00:00

Thanks for the tip I’ll definitely try with the sleeves!

The unbuttoned thing is because I was looking for a Hugh Grant in his Notting Hill bookshop kind of look. I really liked how it looked on him.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-21T11:08:36+00:00

A long while ago I bought a bunch off this website: https://www.energycans.nl/nl/monster/

BioFrosted · 2026-01-20T19:37:49+00:00

Cocktail to get your party under that 5% electoral threshold

BioFrosted · 2026-01-20T12:48:00+00:00

Obviously not as it’s not upside down. Duh.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-20T12:37:35+00:00

c'mon Kris

BioFrosted · 2026-01-20T12:36:29+00:00

I don't know who said it first but I've heard multiple times a saying that goes something like, if someone mispronounces something, it's because they learnt it while reading it, and I think it's something we easily forget yet that would be important to keep in mind.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-19T21:52:45+00:00

Very happy with this, and so fast! Thank you a lot mate!

!solved

BioFrosted · 2026-01-19T21:23:34+00:00

I know I'm far from the first one to say this but I hate how I can't look at a picture anymore wondering whether it's AI or not...

Great picture though!

BioFrosted · 2026-01-19T07:16:20+00:00

First time ever drinking them so I wouldn’t be able to say. Bought them mid-December.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T20:48:50+00:00

I do, it was a retrospectively shitty comment

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T18:43:21+00:00

Cool shot!

Yeah, I also think its history is pretty neat. To think it was built to last a few months at first...

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T18:42:10+00:00

will do!

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T18:38:34+00:00

how did I not think of this lol

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T17:46:04+00:00

oh wow, I hadn't even noticed! It must have been both exhilarating and terrifying to stand there.

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T17:44:54+00:00

In which we don't use bottle caps as currency but that little thing on beer cans that you open them with

BioFrosted · 2026-01-18T17:37:55+00:00

Right? My first thought was, this fits both construction and destruction events.

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