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   Rachel Greenham (strangenoises@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:49:11 JST Rachel Greenham

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   • Charlie Stross
   • Dan Sugalski

   @wordshaper @cstross the one exception: for each of these people, there must have been a first time, when they just thought, oh all right then, and the normalisation process began.

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     Jacek Wesołowski (jzillw@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:49:11 JST Jacek Wesołowski

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     • Charlie Stross
     • Dan Sugalski

     @StrangeNoises @wordshaper @cstross The normalization process begins long before that. There are their buddies who have done the same thing before. There's the ongoing narrative that "everybody does it" and "it's how things really work". There are various ways to convince self and others that this specific situation is exceptional.

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     Dan Sugalski (wordshaper@weatherishappening.network)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:49:12 JST Dan Sugalski

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     • Charlie Stross

     @cstross This is the thing that gives people who don't cheat the hardest time wrapping their heads around. It's *never* just one time, it's the one time you noticed.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:49:13 JST Charlie Stross

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     Note that this is relatively small-scale graft—failing to declare VIP suite access at a football match—but where there's one, there are usually more.

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     Charlie Stross (cstross@wandering.shop)'s status on Wednesday, 21-Feb-2024 03:49:14 JST Charlie Stross

     Michael Gove failed to register hospitality he enjoyed with a Conservative donor whose company he had recommended for multimillion-pound personal protective equipment (PPE) contracts during the Covid pandemic:

     https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/20/michael-gove-failed-to-register-hospitality-from-donor-whose-firm-he-referred-for-ppe-contracts

     Shocked, SHOCKED, to see corruption happening in this government! (Sniggers up sleeve.)