TwistedFox

While I have no doubt that the EU has corrupt politicians, It’s no where as visibly bad as it is in the US. Most of the people who could bring this forward get something out of what he is doing or contributing to them, and they would rather turn a blind eye than risk losing whatever he is giving them.
For some it’s helping out their base, for others its something more monetary.
There are mechanisms there, but they only work when the people watching them are invested in helping the citizens.

That’s definitely a part of it. All of the MS web platforms rely heavily on first and third party cookies. You can’t even log in properly to Teams if your browser is in incognito/private mode.

Because the majority of them are elected by the community that they serve. The rest are assigned by the current sitting state government. While this does result in politically aligned judges, in theory it ensures that the judges align with the current desires of the population. In practice, the whole thing is so twisted, convoluted and corrupted that it’s just a nightmare.

Back a long time ago when I worked as a cashier, it was store policy for us to bag everything for the customer. They could offer to bag, but we were expected to just start bagging automatically unless they interjected.

not just sent through, but indefinitely stored on the cloud server, despite advertising that it was not cloud-connected. It also generated facial-recognition based IDs for people which was also stored, and every single device could be connected to through an non-authorized connection request from VLC player.

Tone down the maliciousness a bit, and Trump would be a good inspiration for Alpha Complex’s Friend Computer.

On that bar, on KBIN, is Threads, Microblog, and People. I hear that KBin is still in early stages of development, so hopefully it will get more filtering and federation options in the future

I keep seeing people mention clicking on Communities, but I don’t see that. Am I missing something?
My top bar has "All, Subscribed, Moderated, Favorites, and then a bunch of magazine suggestions. I don’t see Communities anywhere.

Edit: Just noticed that this is a Lemmy threaed, is it because I am looking at it via kbin and the communities tab is only in Lemmy? This fediverse thing will take some getting used to.