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And when’s the last time you actually needed that folder? At one of my employers they were openly embezzling public (EU) funds. I did report that to the authorities, they are still hot on the case with no results 2 years later.

Nothing has consequences, at most a bit of bad PR, or fines that get paid from your bonuses that you aren’t getting.

There was the Spanish Flu if pandemics count

Man, I’ve been to these meetings.

Shitty MBAs have a shitty idea, and when you go “that’s impossible to do / directly against any sane set of values / clearly and plainly very, very illegal”, they just go “don’t worry about it” and have you do the stupid shit. When it comes crashing down, responsibility is usually distributed like when you take a turd and throw it in a high speed industrial fan, everyone gets a little.

Then you have a choice between either becoming so jaded and cynical that it’s not even funny anymore, or switch jobs. I’ve had too many jobs.

Nobody is required to work. You can also starve.

It’s not noticing a sign next to roadworks in a city, sadly not uncommon.

I meant km/h, 30 is a fast cycling speed, 50 is the usual residential area speed limit.

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Guilty as charged. To my defence, I’ve had 5 exams in the past 3 weeks, and I’m officially undead.

Yeah, but there is water in every brain cell as well.

If all the water goes, every cell goes simultaneously.

Have there been cases like that already?

Depends on the jurisdiction. In some places in some conditions going 50 in a 30 is a criminal act that can result in jail time.

Then if you have ever gone faster than the speed limit, you are a criminal. That makes most people in the developed world criminals.

That aside, the point is that naming someone a criminal has moralistic baggage, and by saying that anyone that breaks laws is a criminal thus immoral, you imply all laws are inherently moral.

What makes someone “criminal” as a quality? Breaking the law? Killing people? Are all health insurance workers criminals too?

He shot a man to death who killed thousands. He’s a vigilante if anything.

I’ve tried a whole bunch of Europe, and there is plenty of hatred and idiocy to go around.

I fear for our future.

Catching individual errors is fine. Having all errors be ignored by default is weird.

Don’t worry, we’re working on it.

Jokes aside though, not all of Europe, and we’ve all got our own very serious issues as well.

One thing I never understood with the US. With how they killed George Floyd on the street in front of everyone and they were set to get away with it - my first thought would have been that what would be different if they did that to me? I’d come up with nothing, and that’s terrifying.

People are arguing about the legality of the death sentence, but a cop can kill you with impunity any day, even tomorrow, with no reason, even in your home. If you are reading this while you’re trying to sleep in your bed, or sitting on the toilet, there are people who could kick down your door and murder you, legally without consequences.

How can you tune that out? How do you live like that? It wasn’t like that even under communism, at least not after the 70s, and the period before left a collective trauma on half a continent.

Oh, you’re right, I guess on the one hand I’m from the happiest barracks so to speak, but what I meant to say that there it wasn’t uncommon to know people with cars, it wasn’t some “you have to be a politician or CEO equivalent” thing, more like a “most people don’t have one, but they do know someone who has one”.

TBH it feels like it was similar than trying to save up for a house from zero for young people now. It’s not entirely unrealistic, but the average person won’t get there.

The peeps I know were teachers and they did own a car, the same car over 30 years though. There were no traffic jams though.

Having a Western car though, that was the real shit. I knew someone who had a VW Golf in the 80s, now for that you had to be high in the pecking order.

Knowledge will break the chains of slavery!

TBH I expect it to be the same as everywhere where there are a lot of people with imperfect oversight.

There is going to be some children working just like in the southern US.