How is there no mechanism to remove him? I mean, ideally he shouldn’t have been selected in the first place but under the insanely charitable assumption that it was sloppiness and not active negligence that recruited him.
Sure, but this is the thing that really annoys me: my state has really good eID, it just doesn’t work with the EU stuff. It works with literally every other government service, most companies, often as physical ID, for payments, etc etc
Also, to give some more horrendous flavour to the situation, there’s an active political discussion of how to adapt jails for the unprecedented number of children they’ve started jailing (probably in violation of international conventions).
I have the exact same experience, though I think it might differ if you’re not white and/or middle class.
I’ve heard people make comparisons to the situation in the US in the ‘80’s, for mostly the same reasons (rapidly expanding inequality that follows particularly racialised lines and ensures many primarily racialised people have very low social mobility in combination with rapidly increasing demand for eg cocaine and other street drugs and a general culture that glamorises individual wealth). I don’t know enough to wholeheartedly present that as the definite description, but it does fit what little I’ve seen and experienced.
I had the exact opposite experience! I went through a lengthy process of signing up for and activating the weird nonstandard eID that most places don’t accept over the normal one I already have and use for everything, the only one they supported, only to be told I can’t use it without manually contacting the company, have them invalidate my activation and then go into some office to get manually re-activated.
They seem to have a general right bias because they consider the New York Times and the Washington Post to also be left-biased and that’s just preposterous. Though in fairness it looks far worse for Fox News.
The public are usually very for that after it’s been implemented. They hate it before, assuming you include people who live outside the area where it’s being built but imagine they might want to some say drive there in “the public”. It’s much more of a mixed bag if you don’t.
Japan has in general done so so little to make up for all the unspeakable atrocities they did. This includes the history of the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party, which is neither liberal nor democratic and which was, and I swear I’m not making this up, at one point a front for the CIA, which was actively involved in getting terrible war criminals in power and torturing leftists because of the red scare and all that.
Oh, and Nobusuke Kishi, CIA-rehabilitated war criminal and former prime minister, is literally the favourite grandfather of later prime minister Shinzo Abe. It’s as if Operation Paperclip had spirited away Göbbels from war crime allegations and a later prime minister of Germany would have been his grandkid. It’s wild.
It’s even funnier that none of this was related to Shinzo Abe’s assassination, for the record.
I have the same situation almost. We have fiber from Telia delivered to the basement of our apartment building where it’s converted to cable by Tele2, who rents access to Telia’s fiber. Neither of them were willing to sell me or the organisation that owns the building access to fiber, even though it would have required only activating an outlet on whatever fiber switch thing they have in the basement.
Tele2 also has a monopoly on internet access; it’s that or 4G/5G.
This led to the absurd situation where we have a special coax outlet, followed by a cable modem right next to the fiber switch to supply the intercom system with very very expensive and terribly slow internet.
I was worrying about precisely this. I’d be ok with blocking search engines if there was a better way of searching but AFAICT there isn’t federated search of any kind?
How is there no mechanism to remove him? I mean, ideally he shouldn’t have been selected in the first place but under the insanely charitable assumption that it was sloppiness and not active negligence that recruited him.