Well, no. He just asks his buddy Trump to tell the SEC to drop the charges in a few days. So no fine at all.

Probably more like a city / country problem

Well yeah, that‘s just how people work. Mastodon is unfortunately also not really a catchy name. Combined with the seemingly complicated system behind it, it probably never had a chance to begin with.

We used to say that conservative politics in the EU would still be considered left in the USA. Well, I‘m not so sure about that anymore.

Yeah, but for casual use almost all relevant devices have bluetooth nowadays

I used to dislike wireless earbuds until I tried them. They really are much more convenient, especially while riding a bike.