Long story short: The Finnish defence ministry run background checks on anyone from outside the EU and EEA if they're trying to buy property. They regularly block Russians from buying properties. And this was suspected as another attempt, through a proxy.
The buyer didn't speak Finnish or English, has basically no connection to Finland, inconsistent buisness plan, has potential connections to Russia and wanted to buy a petrol station in eastern Finland, in an area that's about to get a new NATO base.
Here's basically all you need to know about him, to judge him as a person: He fell for Sacha Baron Cohen's bit "kinderguardians", which was about training toddlers with firearms.
Long story short: They are not combatting bots on their platform. They sold training data to google and these guys aren't paying, that's why they're suing.
Translation: They thought everyone would be crawling over eachother to contact them first.
It has happened multiple times now in different situations, where they set demands and/or set up meetings. And then they don't send out or prepare paperwork. They just assume that the other party will be so eager to meet their demands, that everything will be done for them.
Having three tiers is recommended(private-financial/governmental, private-personal/important-accounts, and "public" accounts), but most people stick to one. Which is why I usuaully recommend two, as a starting point for people not accustomed to multiples, forwarding, filtering, etc.
The VAST majority isn't structured or done from actual documentation or directly sent out from an organization. It's sumbliminally dispersed through different media. And people unknowingly, but willingly, spread it thinking they thought of it themselves.
There's been a push the last few days of the narrative that Al Jazeera is "independent media" that is being "suppressed". And they keep bringing up the youtube numbers as some big gotcha.
Depends on the car, but they're usally there to protect something. Removing it could mean water and mud splashing up near the belts, potential damage to the oil pan from rocks, etc.
It appears that it was just zip tied back on…
yeah that's not uncommon, just drive the front onto a curb, put blocks on the wheels, and use some sturdy zip ties.
Legal in most of of the US, you just need a tax stamp.