depending on how you look, what your hair & skin colour is, you may be checked “randomly” while you’re walking home or when you’re crossing borders on a train. If your ID isn’t valid, they won’t just “not care about it”

that polite policeman passing you by with a “good day” would wake me up on the train to check harass me to see if i’m hiding who knows what in my testicles 🤬

Maybe it’s just personal experience

your experience doesn’t reflect Europe, it is a commentary about what you see in the mirror

Why would we uninstall France?

🤔

German state hits uninstall on France

😅

even the most sensitive information are collected through Microsoft and government sites use adobe too 🤷 Windows is the OS in almost all government computers.

not to forget all the WhatsApp use for official communication

facebook and xitter accounts of most government offices are still active

do France next

hand typed. Old habits

i’ll try to use markdown from now on

thanks for the link

(common people, this is the fediverse)

why wouldn’t you <s>make it FOSS and</s> release it through fDroid?

you don’t get your minerals from water, you get them from what you eat.

You can drink distilled water if you compensate for the possible demineralization.
If you think that by drinking distilled water, you’re missing out on all the forever chemicals and pesticides; you can still go lick a car tire and be done with it.

European Commission alleges age verification systems are ineffective in preventing under-18s from watching ☞ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/27/pornhub-three-other-adult-websites-eu-child-safety-investigation

“Today is a good day for minor protection online in the EU, because with the enforcement actions that we are launching … against four very large online platforms with pornographic, adult content, we are clearly showing that we mean it when it comes to the effective protection of minors under the DSA,” an EU official told reporters.

The platforms could resolve the investigation by producing forms of age verification deemed effective by EU regulators. But if the complaint is upheld they could be fined up to 6% of global annual turnover.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/03/pornhub-france-id-verification

Don’t say cash - lots of places don’t take cash any more.

where do you live?

here, afaik, they’re obliged by law to accept cash

ps: i checked. Cash can be refused only under specific conditions (Dirty, torn, counterfeit, more than 50 pieces &c

sadly, i too heard that from somebody 🤷

What? Anarchists have problems with killing now?

yes, at least one of them.

there are many anarchisms. Some never did put their beliefs above lives.

yes, i’ve heard/read “municipalists” talk/write about Rojava but no anarchist would think of archist authoritarian killers like PKK as a model (unless they’re trying to misinform)

what makes you think that this is related to anarchism?