That sounds like even their leaders assume they’re horribly stupid…

That’s something I never got about cops in the US. Everywhere in Europe, there are always two cops per car, at least in the places I have been.

I don’t think your conclusion is correct and a correlation between the two numbers is by far not enough to assume a causality between the two of them. I would rather assume there are a lot of other factors being involved. Like e.g. the education system, especially the amount of years spent on education before starting to work, the general wealth of the society, the social securities provided the government, like e.g. health care, unemployment support etc.

Not that new given that a law informally called the “The Hague Invasion Act” exists for more then 20 years and it’s only purpose is being a threat to the ICC .

Wikipedia: American Service-Members’ Protection Act

What an amazing time to be alive that those few words are providing all the required context.

He’s not and btw the proper name for this used in German is “Misere” which is originally Latin meaning “have mercy” but the word is also used to just described something as a really bad situation.

I wouldn’t necessarily call it civilized world, but yeah for basically every country that belongs to the so called “1st world” except the US it is and it takes a few years to become a police officer.

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Same thing with why do I need to pay someone to do maintenance my car, kitchen, AC, whatever works perfectly well.

Also why should we pay developers to do stuff like dependency upgrades and other maintenance or software just runs™