God I can’t wait to be able to send the kids to get a kebab or pizza.
They’re only 2 now. Another 13 years or so and they can go fetch things on their bikes or scooters I guess.
I’ve had pizza delivered by the guys who work for the store, but never a delivery service.
where does our tax money go?
This is a pretty easy question to answer given that you’re talking about a public institution.
The only difficulty is that the answer is complex and requires reading and understanding many sets of financial reports and accompanying minutes et cetera.
a city near me just bought 32 benches at the cost of 70k€ EACH
That’s a pretty absurd claim, and simply not how budgets in public institutions work.
Sure there might have been some kind of fuckup so installation of one of 32 benches cost $70k, or any number of other plausible explanations, but large public institutions don’t just throw $2.25m EUR at the end of a quarter as a budget stuffing exercise.
How could this ever be a reasonable idea, regardless of this mother’s heritage.
Even if they’re only applied with good intentions, it’s still so obviously wrong.
I feel like people are somehow stupider.
In Australia in the 80s there was very strong opposition to the introduction of tax file numbers, similar to a social security number I guess - merely a unique identifier for tax paying citizens. It was considered an over reach by the government, and an unnecessary way to track and monitor citizens.
Now 45 years later those same people who were resistant to this type of identifier, like my parents, are nodding along with the conservatives who are trying to implement AI surveillance everywhere saying how necessary it is to protect us all from evil crime doers.
Yeah right. I guess if you process it so it’s just calcium or something rather than living tissue.
I find this really hard to believe.
I’m sure that unauthorised organ harvesting has occurred in isolated circumstances.
But I’m incredulous that it could happen on an industrial scale.
I didn’t realise that this was a thing.
I guess your body just kind of tolerates bone for some reason? Usually for transplants you need meds to suppress your immune system forever.
Here’s an example usage from cambridge dictionary: