"That the janitors were cleaning the building with bare hands and wet rags the next day." Are you sure they weren't licking the floors clean with their tongues

"That the janitors were cleaning the building with bare hands and wet rags the next day." Are you sure they weren't licking the floors clean with their tongues? So here you have two memes popular on HN: USSR was teh suck, and Japan is filled with disciplined professionals with a code of honor prepared to fight Godzilla. No wonder this crap gets modded up. Next time it would be nice to have an analysis of the nuclear regulations in the USSR then and Japan today, and a case study of how they were followed and what happened.