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I mean, depends on where you live, they seem to own a few governments

No I meant the way people interact with each other. People in Budapest are the same, you actively have to ignore others to go about your way, too many scammers and weird people around. And also people fighting public transit vehicles.

But then a Serbian motorcyclist broke down a few weeks ago in the city and a bunch of locals made it their mission to get him the parts needed to continue his journey. Another occasion, a bus broke down, the passengers got off, and helped push it off the road to avoid a traffic jam.

I assume that's just like every bigger city, right?

The place was a part of my early youth, I was sad to see it go.

The original route would have been a different bridge, the police diverted them here because of a 30 people strong nazi counterprotest.

The organisers turned down the music during the passing to avoid the crowd marching to the beat.

AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.

The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn't full of tourists because they didn't think that the railway station buffet was so good.

BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a "fast casual" crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I'm saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.

We used to have the only McDonald's (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.

They "modernised" it last year.

Ten years and counting here, fuck if anyone knows at this point. My personal (maybe a bit cynical) take is that it really doesn't matter as the amount of coding skill you use maxes out in the first few years of your career (for 90% of us anyhow), after that cat herding skills and pragmatic system architecture is what's important. It becomes more important to know what not to do rather than the opposite.

So it doesn't really matter how fast you are at leetcode if you can navigate the particular brand of spaghetti your workplace is cooking, plus points if you are able and willing to grok new kinds so you can hop jobs because raises are so last century.

Yeah, unlike an outsourcing outfit an AI company won't take the fall when given shit requirement and shit pay they deliver shit work.

You just described most European cities I lived in. What are other US cities like then?

I'd love if there was, but each of those regions has a plethora of very different electoral systems.

Far be it from me to protect this idiot, but wasn't the whole ruse he was trying to do aimed at getting the wind out of Israel's sails by claiming he destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities?

And I really don't know who leaked the BDA pics, but it would benefit Israel and the regime change band for his lie to fall apart, right?

It would be illegal for the govt to do so I guess. Why would it be legal for the org to do it if it's specifically prohibited for individual officers?

The law should bind everyone, including the government.