A question from my federally mandated anti-bribery and corruption training.

A lot of people say lobbyists don't have a place in society, but what about those cages medieval cities used to hang corpses in as a warning to others?

They call that gibbeting, but have you considered an oubliette?
- I'm saving the oubliette for all the landlords so that I can call myself a housing provider with a cute, rustic basement apartment.
- build a toilet on it, call it the pooubliette
- Shit, I thought it was just made up to look cool in, like, faux-medieval settings like Dark Souls
We can't just put people in crow cages! That's inhumane! Which is why we use lobbiestes.

This just unlocked a core memory from when I had a temp job in high school at a major banking Corp and for whatever reason had to take their course on mortgage lending stuff.

At one point the instructor asked which out of the things in the slide was discrimination: refusing to lend to someone based on their race, their gender, their income level, their religion. I answered all of them and was gently corrected. The right answer was of course that all except income level was discrimination because poor people are not a legally protected class.

That last sentence is perfect.

Illegal: Handing a government official a $20 bill

Legal: Giving the official a $100k donation

Isn't the gift limit for public employees like 25$?
- In my state it's $5

The reminder that the only distinction of bribery and lobbying is that, if it is legal, it is lobbying, if it is illegal, it is bribery. There is no deeper distinction than that.

galaxy-brain

"If you were able to steal $1 million dollars without anyone noticing and catching you, would you do it?"

Why do HR people act like anyone is being honest when they answer "no"

Lol they said it out loud at the end.

Part of the trick is that the way lobbying is defined, both writing a letter to your senator and taking them on an all expenses paid trip to your private island then buying them a mansion count as "lobbying"