The enforcement mechanism is banning local banks from allowing your customers to transfer money to you.
Most people aren't going to mess around with crypto.

You can choose a social media platform that fact-checks and censors the way you want it to. A free-for-all would be a toxic sewer of spam that nobody would want to visit.

It is different where you don't have a choice and you are forced to live with someone else's censoring decisions.

Toddlers are waaaaay more intelligent than A"I".

If you just download a copyrighted work, the actual losses suffered by the copyright owner are pretty minimal, maximum the cost of a legal copy of the work.
If you use it for commercial purposes or distribute it to others, then the losses suffered by the copyright owner are much higher. In the UK at least, it also makes it a criminal rather than merely civil matter.

FreeBSD is a "permissive" equivalent.
It is my daily driver, but it doesn't do everything that Linux can do, and I do also use Debian.

But there is a side-contract that says if you distribute the source code, as is your right under the GPL, they won't renew your contract to receive updated copies of the binaries. That bit is sailing pretty close to the wind in terms of compliance with the GPL.

As far as I can see, it has no more legal standing than an executive order from me demanding that everyone call it The Gulf of Cuba.

$150k is much closer to $0 than it is to $400bn (Space Karen's wealth).

In the US, it is "Gulf of America". In Mexico, it is "Gulf of Mexico", in the rest of the world, it is "Gulf of Mexico (Gulf of America)", but we still call it "Gulf of Mexico".

In the UK, tobacconists aren't really a thing, and the majority of shops either don't take cash, or have only till that takes cash.
In European countries that do have tobacconists, they don't just sell tobacco, they also sell things like bus tickets which it would be entirely appropriate for a 9 year-old to buy.

In the UK, the tax is £0.5295 (66 cents) per *litre*, plus a 20% sales tax on the cost including fuel tax.
Our vehicles are much more efficient, so the cost of fuel per mile driven works out about the same though, and it is a smaller country so we drive fewer miles.

Stellantis is a relatively new company that was founded about 4 years ago. That's probably why you never heard of it.

Certainly at my local farmers market, which is within walking distance of an Elizabeth Line station, so not particularly rural, they all take Apple Pay / Google Pay.

I thought the purpose of the $x.99 pricing was to force the shopworker to have to open the till to give change?

In the UK, everyone, and I mean everyone accepts Apple Pay and Google Pay. I never carry cash when I go outside now.