My apartment. I don’t like it very much but it was built in 1928. So “enjoy” is a stretch but I use it daily.

hard to be older than that

Usually, the word “democracy” is reduced to the word “elections” and here the field where the autocrats like to play.

That’s the problem. For a functional country, or “democracy” for short, you need mechanisms to prevent a collapse into autocracy. And general participation of citizens in decision making, which is related to my second point.

What I mean by “slave mentality” is better described as “rejection of personhood”. People supporting authoritarian governments reject their own status as a person, by rejecting their own (and everybody else’s) political agency. Usually by looking for some great leader to be a saviour, as long as you keep your head down and obey.
Political rights are what makes you a full person in a society.

But it is a lack of democracy institutions development. “Slave mentality” too, although I prefer different phrasing.

Hotels be like: yes 06:00-07:30 is the time most people eat, let’s have breakfast then

The amount of bags made is not fixed. If shops don’t buy bags from the manufacturer, they won’t continue making them in the same quantities.

Almost like prison is not a good way to deal with most crime.

By default property crimes should be dealt with by full confiscation of stolen property and 6 months of community service (or prison if the convicted so chooses). Each time they do it. With full effort of police to resolve every single case and express trials. No sentencing to harsh penalties as a deterrence, just a 99% chance you’ll be caught.

Isolated cases of violence, like a bar fight etc. Some counseling and community service again.

Consistently violent people are a different story. Say murders or multiple assaults. They should be kept locked indefinitely with annual review, until they pass some test to determine they are unlikely to be violent again.

Their shopping experience is so much worse than only 3 years ago. Whatever they are doing, they are doing it wrong.

Kidney stone? A friend who had it mention similar symptoms.

Trolls trying to argue in bad faith.

They use the fact that both race and gender are social constructs to try and trap you in a contradiction. Which is technically correct but their argument doesn’t come from a desire for a good outcome in either case.

wow holy racist batman

Yes, but it’s also the most logical place. What other activity do you dedicate so much time to? Maybe sleeping but it’s hard to build a community around that.

I’m starting to understand that many people never felt the sense of community, in the workplace or otherwise. Yes it’s possible.

The trick is that it doesn’t depend on the company, it depends on the people. Last time it happened to me, we pretty much all quit together because we were frustrated at the company but kept being friends afterwards.

Modern war comes with a live soundtrack

Back into corporate after working for a startup.
It’s mentally suffocating, socially isolating, career ending, source of hopelessness. I spend most of my life specifically avoiding this trap because I knew what’s waiting there, but sometimes life puts you in a situation of limited choices.

Something amazing happens when there are more than 3 levels of management. Even if you want to “create value for the shareholders” you won’t be allowed to.

Continue the war. Doesn’t matter too much when and against who. Constant war is the only thing keeping Netanyahu in power. They’re going to keep doing it as long as they can.

American Founding Fathers were not dumb - a lot of them had spent time in the 18th century Europe, which was an interesting place at the time. Full of wars and rebellions. Great for analyzing pros and cons of political systems, awful for an average guy. Keeping the general population armed was a good idea in the context.

What they failed to predict is the identity politics. That being armed or not will become a show of loyalty to your group rather than defense against tyranny. With those needing it the most being the ones to reject it.

BRICSV? VBRICS? BRVICS?

I don’t think anyone asked me that question phrased specifically like that. It’s usually “what do you find appealing about our company”.

But I was asked another stereotypical one - what my biggest flaw is. Apparently my answer is considered a good one “of course I have flaws but I’m on a job interview, I’m not going to tell it here”

He also didn’t invent a programming language.
For a file system you only get one murder.