Yeah, maybe I should try to read more carefully.

This is not a famous thing, it’s just that I’ve heard someone at a past workplace say this.

“Doing the same thing that got you here into this position will not make you successful in it, it may not even be enough for you to keep it.”

To be clear, he wasn’t saying it to me or anyone, he said it to himself as a life lesson he learned going through promotions and changing companies. The point was to stay humble and don’t expect your past accomplishments to get you through future challenges.

I think that’s why it says “emergency”. Asking for help is okay, dumping your problems over to me so it’s my “emergency” is not.

You can ask for help and give me some of your work, but not your responsibilities.

Otherwise anyone can just run around with a 10/20/50% off sticker and force any store to sell them whatever they want for much cheaper.

Or they can just steal it, it’s just as legal. In my experience this is law in a lot of the EU, including Germany and a bunch of Eastern European places.

In my case, it wasn’t a misplaced 90% off sticker, it was just that the normal price tag on the shelf was printed with one zero less. It was also a “premium” item at the time, so the price wasn’t that much off, just cheap. It wasn’t just a bunch of shrimp, it was ready made, cleaned, arranged into a neat circle with dipping sauces in the middle.

On the other hand, I had a thing where Microsoft was introducing Skype to a country where the local currency was around 200:1 to the dollar. They messed up the currency conversion, and it defaulted back to 1:1, giving everyone a 99.5% discount on consumer electronics. It was obviously not honoured, and the law was clear, so no lawsuits either.

Are political questions out of scope for this community? There is no rule like that in the sidebar.

OP is referring to the fact that the Ukrainian parliament was cozying up to the West, as the West was trying to get it as a close trade partner, which would have circumvented Ukraine’s reliance on Russia, effectively pulling it from Russia’s shrinking sphere of influence over to the West. Also, the revolution that started the open conflict has allegedly had a lot of clandestine support from the US.

They would have real tangible value and became an asset subject to speculation and manipulation like crypto.

Not really the case in most of the EU.

It doesn’t count obviously if it’s a misplaced item and the price is clearly labelled for another item. However, if a store leaves discount stickers on some product late, or mislabels some price, they are obligated to sell at that price. There is caveat that it only works if the price is believable, but I managed to get a ton of shrimp that just arrived at a Lidl 90% off one time. Family was eating shrimp for weeks.

I mean with the CSU/CDU out of the way, they might finally get around to doing it.

I guess Saudi Arabia, those guys are prudes.

Depends I guess, it was by and large, but as I understand contemporary intra-US flights are much more fussy than intra-EU ones.

Airport security inside the EU varies, they will make you go through the detector gates and X-ray your baggage, but they don’t care much as long as you are not bringing weapons or something. Amsterdam Schiphol let me through with a half-empty 2 liter bottle without me noticing, the security on the back trip caught it. I’ve traveled a few times outside the EU, but it was also pretty automated, the only extra step was getting in a separate line if you had an EU passport, since they had NFC chips that would make checking them automatic.

Security in general mostly takes 10 minutes, if everything goes alright you can make your plane even if you get to the airport 30-40 minutes before departure. It does not go always alright, so I try to arrive 60-90 minutes early. Leaving the plane is no fuss, I usually get away with calling a taxi right as I deboard and I don’t stop anywhere getting out. I’ve flown planes without assigned seating as well, the pilots put the baggage in the hold themselves, it was kinda like a long distance bus.

You can’t wait at gates, that’s true.

That said, airport security changes are pretty down on the list if you count the implosion of the USSR, the Yugoslav war, Georgia, and a bunch of other stuff happening kinda near it. From this side of the Atlantic, it feels it was only a big historical event because it shattered a perceived “invincibility” of the US. It never really fought a modern war in this century or the last where it was actually risking something other than expeditionary troops, mostly thanks to geography.

Generational trauma from WWII is still a thing today, imagine the effects of historical events since, and it kinda puts it into perspective why a few thousand people being bombed on a distant shore has people maybe even more indifferent to it than people in the US are to events everywhere else.

I’d say that COVID is also more universal. 9/11 is only that important for people in the US.

Most EU countries would not condemn you for doing either. That said, you are definitely on the hook for helping others if there is no risk to yourself or a third party in most civil law countries.

It’s a serious crime in most of Europe for example to drive past a car accident scene without verifying that help is on site.

This wiki page summarizes it well.

I just checked and it’s more of a crime in the Eastern EU, as most Western countries have fines or a few months of prison at most for this, while most Eastern Member States put you in prison for 2-3 years for it.