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On a "what's reasonable" level, or on a "gets you called in by a minister or MP to be yelled at" level?

Solidarity to all of the folks who have had to work with elected officials. I got ripped a new one because I recommended we disable a PHP project in the mid-2000s because a hay bale reporting app (report counts of bay hales on farms) due to an RCE bug. Within a few hours of the app being disabled there was drama from a politician who got a phone call from a prominent farmer...

Speaking of the power of farmers… https://youtu.be/rStL7niR7gs?t=439 The relevant clip is just 20 seconds long.

That is excellent.

Relevant - John Mellencamp using his hit song to siphon off subsidies to his family and relatives.

https://reason.com/2005/04/15/cash-on-the-scarecrow-pork-on/

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