Unfortunately if you’re buying from any marketplace, there’s always a chance the seller is managing it from Amazon.
If it’s a small seller with only a couple items, there’s a better chance to avoid Amazon compared to bigger sellers selling many items.
Lots of people put up the same products on every available marketplace, and they fulfill their orders with Amazon because it’s easier to ship everything Fulfilled By Amazon.
You buy on ebay, they buy from themselves on Amazon and drop ship it to you via FBA.
Arguably the most evil company in the world.
In the first photo, the lock is attached to the rack and to the bike’s fork only. If you remove the front wheel, then neither the bike nor the wheel is attached to the lock anymore.
The second one has the bike placed “wrong” on a bike rack so that they are able to lock the wheel and the frame to the rack.
The guy next to the boulder is rotating a log coiled in a rope. That forces the short log closer to the boulder, pulling the large lever down. It’s levers on levers on levers. The whole system is quite clever.
Despite exit polls clearly predicting a victory for Dan, Simion declared himself the president of Romania in a post on social media.
That remains to be seen
Nobody knows because nobody who’s tried to follow through has reported anything happening.
Not every instance blocked them, but many did.
The fear of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish got a hold of the fediverse when Threads was originally announced.
Luxembourg is landlocked, it’s not their fault.
You are not in traffic, you are traffic.
Maybe someone didn’t want to be committing crimes against humanity