There are major cities in those countries with a few exceptionally gnarly ones, though. I don't blame if you're traumatized if you ever found yourself circling Arc de Triomphe in Paris, for example.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p0cx6tw7

https://www.404media.co/

Ex Vice Motherboard.

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[1]: At least ebaumsworld was notorious for the bad kinds of piracy. albinoblacksheep, newgrounds, and somethingawful, were the major hubs outside of other individual creator sites like weebls and lemondemon otherwise IIRC. Firth did publish himself on NG, and later on YouTube. But I think he only appeared as himself on YouTube like a decade or so after Salad Fingers first went viral. https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/276616 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBaum%27s_World#Copyright_infr...

I'd say it's a key factor to why it can sustain at all.

Compare to tech startups and big tech where I imagine the majority of those who would be able to drive a union are already intertwined enough in leadership that they feel prevented from organizing due to conflict of interest.

You know how to find your way for that from Wikipedia, I assume. From PostNord:

https://nitter.net/PostNordSverige/status/172767223321924818...

https://nitter.net/PostNordSverige/status/172773029292270847...

They don't always perfectly align on big nor small.

Source: My PR was merged in 2021, the changes are still part of Synapse, and I never signed any CLA. I don't think they'd be able to get enough sign-offs from historical contributors to pull off any actual shenanigans with the Synapse license.

Aside: I'm curious what these numbers would be for other European countries:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37758402

> Sweden has about 8600 people in prison so about 37% of their prison population is in there for "drug offenses"

Don't know if you picked Sweden in particular intentionally but they are very much an outlier of their own when it comes to drug-related crime. Simple possession of small quantities for personal use can still have you end up in jail or even prison for up to 6 months.

They're still all-in on the War on Drugs.

This is roughly what you should expect if you get busted carrying one joint in Sweden.

Source: Some people around my social circle smoked back in uni.

Because the perpetrators are often children/teenagers, in many places actually not. It's the underage factor making many of these cases challenging to prosecute.

If you listen to the PM, yes. Another major factor (actually the biggest?) is Sweden's among European countries relatively unique hardline and boneheaded stance on recreational drugs including cannabis, which has contributed to growth and strengthening of criminal gangs who fund themselves and maintain territory by drug trade, simultaneously silently pushing otherwise law-abiding citizens into the criminal sphere, furthering the split into parallel societies. Basically the opposite of the Portugal approach. There are arguments that the law on sex work (buying sexual services is a crime; selling is not) has been having similar effect.

If you believe it was naivete behind the open immigration policy, well, you could still say the same here.

I live by a different Japanese small town famous for its textile industry and there's at least one place still similarly using punch cards and tape. They exhibited some of it and a contemporary art piece made using it during the annual Fuji Textile Week last year.

Separately I also met an artist who's doing binary-hacked glitch embroidery and knitting with older machines in the area. I think they have stuff for sale from time to time and would be open for commissions. There's some pokemon/otaku/tech-related stuff if you dig through their insta.

https://nukeme.nu/tagged/Glitch%20Embroidery

https://glitchknit.jp/

After a couple of days, people would desperately go back and forth for upwards to an hour with it.

That's nothing compared to what current gen can do. People being more aware of bots being a thing in general these days isn't sufficient to compensate.