That sounds pretty reasonable and an angle I wouldn’t have thought of. Thanks!

And is that a problem? It’s a bank with customers all over the world…

Wait, you are telling me it ISN’T okay to bang the ex of your best mate for fun?

I wonder what manga that was… couldn’t have been Black Lagoon :rofl:

Not like there’s already more debt in the world than actual money.

Meaning, if at this second. Every debt in the world were to be paid. There’s not enough around.

Also, there are zero nations in the world without debt. And then banks are bitching that debt is bad…

This is a change that was made like 2-3 years ago because the majority of people said they weren’t part of a religion anymore. I was talking about the theological meaning of “no value” aka. You died, your soul is gone, your body has no emotional or physical value anymore :-)

That’s the only reason, not because of monetary reasons and you don’t want to know how many people break that law live on TV

You’d almost expect them to leak all of this to the DCS devs. Because you’know. They might implement it?

In my language we have two words, one is “Remains” and the other is roughly translated to “Surplus” but can translate it to “human cadaver” too.

The government and news agencies aren’t allowed to be use the word “Cadaver” anymore because that would mean that there’s nothing of value anymore. Some people instead think that even if the soul has left the body, that said body still holds value.

In this case, I can kind of understand what they are trying to accomplish.

Your point about stolen artifacts is valid too, though there can also be valid reasons for not returning the artifacts. Like, for example the museological standards are way lower in said nation, meaning that most artifacts won’t be there in 100 years anymore.

Most reasons are bullshit, of course, not going to lie

Wait, isn’t there ALWAYS a remote kill switch called a fuse box/circuit breakers?

This seems extremely dumb, if all of my switches in my house fail I can go to my fusebox, kill the main and EVERYTHING dies, no question about it

Heck, these assholes bought the drilling rights for every piece of Antartica and the north pole where the snow would melt the soonest. Meaning “more oil”

How about just banning all oil and coal usage in 10 years? People will adapt. Just kill the industry in a single blow, with no-one giving a single damn afterwards

What? The city is responsible for EMT’s in the US? That’s a joke. We have a state run system, where hospitals can be privately run but can’t make a profit (read; get massive subsidies from the government) and all ambulance personnel are specialist that are under a government contract

Yeah, you know why? Because what if they WERE busy helping someone in that ambulance? What would’ve happened then? I don’t think the woman would have reacted any differently.

And that’s also the point I want to make here. I read the article and the best thing? The woman has her account to private now. Says enough, doesn’t it?

How would you have reacted if you were driving with your bike?

That they have closed doors and being stationary says nothing. They could’ve also treated someone inside of the ambulance.

I don't really care what the article says; I just picture the situation. But that's just me, who has been in situations like this and know how annoying it can be if people bother you whilst you ARE in an active emergency because they feel entitled or can't take a single second to think "Hey, maybe they ARE trying to save a live, maybe not, but this isn't the time or place for me to start an argument"

Counterpoint: How do I know if they are in an active emergency? I don't. They are EMS; their job is saving lives (and it's probably more important than yours), so who cares if they park incorrectly?

I understand that the US is different in that regard, but where I live you go around them, see the sidewalk? You can get off your bike and walk 10 meters as well, look behind you, is there a car coming? No? You go around them. It's really not that difficult.

IMAGINE, JUST IMAGINE laying in that ambulance with a heart attack, and some woman starts screaming at the medical personnel who help you that they have to move the ambulance because she doesn't want to walk 10 meters.

I used to assist EMTs and I really didn't give a single where I parked my car if I was called up, because I had to go and save a life. If I could get somewhere a single second earlier than so be. That isn't my problem at that point

In my nation EMS isn’t sent out if there isn’t an emergency. If you see an ambulance on the street? They are on the job, period

They are EMS, they can park wherever the heck they want to park. Imagine having to respond to a heart attack and having to park 3 blocks away.

Yes, they could’ve put the ambulance on the white lined area (I’m a non native English speaker sooo… Don’t know how you folks call that there)

That the NKs didn’t find use for the industrial equipment surprises me.

Flipside, yeah, this is pretty funny; on one hand no-one knew that they were this down the drain. On the other… The signals were there from the start

Like, a good example would be about the Yakuza in the early to mid 90’s. The journalism was there, it just wasn’t published because A) everyone was afraid of them and B) they lined everyone’s pockets not to write about what they did.

Good journalism isn’t propaganda, that isn’t journalism. Every idiot with a typewriter can make propaganda

Flipside, most news has to be sexy now because of social media. Every time there’s a mass shooting somewhere you read the last messages or see a video victims sent to their loved ones, it’s insane. I personally try to only consume text only news nowadays because of that

Yeah, English is not my first language :-)

That is true, but does that matter? Journalism is still journalism. Newspapers need to get money as well, if you have a certain demographic you need to cater to them… If the journalism is good, does it matter what gets published and what doesn’t?

Okay, true, he didn’t steal them, he just made them public… big difference, but the point I tried to make stays the same

Even for journalists what rakes in the clicks is important, you saw that with the Yakuza coverage in the early-mid 90’s in Japan. Papers didn’t cover them because the Yakuza gave them a lot of money. Same everywhere else, the news also caters to their demographics.

How is this not the onion? This seems to be a serious concern.

Yes, he stole top secret documents, but because of him, journalism was done. If he gets prosecuted, the US can just call every journalist a spy who looks dirty at the government.

And the best thing is? He ain’t even American, meaning the US can literally take everyone in the world because they see fit. It’s not about guilt or what he did, it’s about the president it sets

Well, send Musk there, he’ll love it.

Just him, though

How about just legalizing all types of Drugs? Portugal did it… It flipping works

This shit is every few years. Time to stop crying, if you ask me