Australia

A lot of money goes to the US in IP licensing and services. We could make a big collective difference there.

Most of my software has been free and open source for years though I still pay money to Gaben for games.

If creatives can't use free software for some reason there are some alternatives to Adobe. Davinci Resolve is supposed to be excellent and is from Blackmagic who are Aussie(Melbourne) and have a lot of other cool high end gear. The Affinity Suite was from the UK but got bought by Canva who are Aussie founded(Perth) but not sure I would trust them and they look to have a lot of US VC. Also in the creative area Røde Microphones are Aussie(Sydney) vs companies like Shure from US.

I stopped all payments on Paypal and closed it but I had been meaning to do that for ages for other reasons. Amazon Prime went - they are a shit greedy anti-union, anti-Australian company anyway. No loss. Most streaming went over the last few years due to the great enshitification.

I am sure a lot of supermarket products are US owned but thankfully fuck all is made there.

https://www.ethical.org.au/ has info on company ownership.

Sure. I promise not to buy anything from the USA today. 😆

Looking around me, about the only things in my vicinity that came from the USA are my phone and iPad. And they were both purchased 2+ years ago. I don't think there is that much in my bubble that comes from the USA. Maybe some oranges or avocados at the shops sometimes? Whatever is on offer from the USA is going to be such a teeny portion of their export market that they aren't going to notice any action we might take.

Barcode numbers can sort of give an indication.

The first three digits are determined by the country the barcode was assigned in. The barcode can't tell you the country of origin of the product, but it's fairly likely the company that made the product is headquartered in the country indicated by the code (or at least has some administrative presence there).

Here's a list of country codes for reference: https://www.barcodestalk.com/learn-about-barcodes/resources/barcode-country-codes

Here's a Snopes article about what the country codes can't tell you: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bar-code-origin-point/

For computer services, I generally just look at the EU guides - because the EU is pretty good, and my main goal is to avoid mega-corps (not necessarily buy local stuff).

But for physical goods I do make some effort to buy locally made stuff. And fortunately we have good enough labeling laws that it is easy enough to tell what is Australian made and what isn't. (Not so easy to tell which companies are 'independent' though.)

Could be a good time to change from bourbon whiskey to scotch whisky?
Im aware they are similar in name only but another advantage is scotch is delicious without mixers, so your also not buying coke/pepsi/other as mixer, more bang for your buck.

I reccomend mokey shoulder or a 'sherry cask' blend for an easy going entry into scotch whisky if your new to it. Also avoid anything 'peated' at first, unless your a smoker.

Theres a list of Aussie made goods here Australian Made

Most American stuff isn't metric and runs on the wrong voltage. We barely import it. Even my baseball gear is mostly Japanese or Canadian.

Just cancel your Amazon/Disney+/XBox/Netflix/Google/Apple subscriptions. I'm sure most of that goes to the US. I don't trust they're not letting Russia spy on us at this point anyway.