Ok, let me expand on that. Drivers in Hungary tend to be more attentive and in control of their vehicles, but also more aggressive than in Western Europe is what I mean.
Not "thousands", hundreds of thousands. Biggest Pride in Budapest ever, by far. And a lot of people joined exactly because of the ban.
Local media even found a guy with full on nationalist getup marching who said "on a normal day IDGAF about gays, but today I'm here in solidarity since if they can ban Pride they can ban anything".
Most drivers are good at driving, terrible at being good people. So it's not like you get cut off a lot, and there is less texting and driving than in other places, but there are more people road raging. I've seen someone getting brake checked by police, and I've also seen someone brake checking police.
Traffic jams happen, but it's not LA level. The roads are terrible though. The motorway that this thing is on is notoriously unsafe because it has much tighter turns that it should have, and it's rated 110 kmh rather than 130 as a result, and that is still too fast.
There is a segment of highway near Budapest where cops often hang out on an overpass with a speed camera. Teslas do a light phantom brake under that overpass, like going from speed limit to 80% speed limit, because apparently the car learned that that's what it should do there.
I wouldn't have believed it's that stupid, but there is a whole discussion on local owner groups about that specific spot, and I've also seen it first hand from the passenger seat.
Reason I don't move to the US despite "the wages are better" #321. I never had to deal with this. If I was the person in the car, I would have just sent an email to Consumer Protection, and they would have dragged the dealer to arbitration. BTW arbitration here doesn't mean "court-but-paid-by-the-company", that's illegal, it's just that they try to cut through this exact bullshit without going to court and incurring fees. If the company representative does not show up, it's grounds for a quick judgement against the company at court afterwards, and the authority also reviews if the company should even have a business licence if this keeps happening.
No I meant the way people interact with each other. People in Budapest are the same, you actively have to ignore others to go about your way, too many scammers and weird people around. And also people fighting public transit vehicles.
But then a Serbian motorcyclist broke down a few weeks ago in the city and a bunch of locals made it their mission to get him the parts needed to continue his journey. Another occasion, a bus broke down, the passengers got off, and helped push it off the road to avoid a traffic jam.
I assume that's just like every bigger city, right?
AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.
The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn't full of tourists because they didn't think that the railway station buffet was so good.
BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a "fast casual" crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I'm saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.
Ten years and counting here, fuck if anyone knows at this point. My personal (maybe a bit cynical) take is that it really doesn't matter as the amount of coding skill you use maxes out in the first few years of your career (for 90% of us anyhow), after that cat herding skills and pragmatic system architecture is what's important. It becomes more important to know what not to do rather than the opposite.
So it doesn't really matter how fast you are at leetcode if you can navigate the particular brand of spaghetti your workplace is cooking, plus points if you are able and willing to grok new kinds so you can hop jobs because raises are so last century.
Far be it from me to protect this idiot, but wasn't the whole ruse he was trying to do aimed at getting the wind out of Israel's sails by claiming he destroyed Iran's nuclear capabilities?
And I really don't know who leaked the BDA pics, but it would benefit Israel and the regime change band for his lie to fall apart, right?
When you have someone blow the double of the whole healthcare budget on Ukraine fearmongering, who has been supported by a practically unlimited EU budget, it becomes hard to campaign on Ukraine.
Magyar pledged to have a referendum on Ukraine joining, when the question actually comes up. I don't know what else he can do right now, considering the situation.
Most Hungarians support the unconditional early joining of Ukraine BTW, and a lot more support it if conditions are kept.
They just approved funding to rearm Europe in the sense the EU military budget will surpass the US military budget, and all of it can only be spent domestically in the EU.
What is your source for that?