Yes. Not precedent as in American law where “they’ve done it this way in the past so we don’t need to think about it again and just copy the previous ruling” but precedent as in other cities have now seen a) it can be done b) how to do it. This makes it easier to do it in their cities. It’s also in a highly influential city when it comes to laws and courts.

That’s more like a credible source, thank you!

I agree with the statement but I’ve downvoted this as I can find no reference to it anywhere on the BMA website or any other official public communication.

What I did find was an article about it here, and when questioned for a reference the author responded with an ever unhelpful “I have been told it is on the members only part of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website.”

OP, if you can provide proof of this I’ll gladly turn that downvote into an upvotes.

Not to mention the constant paranoia and assumption that you’re stealing from them whilst saving them an immense amount of labour costs. Cameras watching your every move and “UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA”.

Makes for such an enjoyable shopping experience…

In the short term, definitely.

In the long term I’d hope that it collapses like the Trump administration appears to be in the very beginnings of. So cruel and incompetent that large percentages of the population finally wake up to the shit oppressive capitalist system we live under and force genuine progressive change to improve all our lives. No more Tory light, actual fucking socialism.

Billions of people live their lives working all day every day, to what end? We have so many amazing machines, computers, robots, we don’t need to be working all our days all day to make some rich pricks who purchased a factory more money. Productivity is so immensely high. The Bread Book came out in 1892 and argued then that productivity was high enough to not need all of us to be working as much as we do, productivity eclipses that now by an insane amount. We don’t need to be constantly stressed and doing the bidding of some prick boss and yet that is the experience of the majority of the population across the world.

All so they can watch the number in their stock portfolio go up and up. Literally dragons hoarding gold for no other purpose than to hoard it. And brag to the other dragons about how much they have.

We’re genuinely at the point that the ancient Greeks dreamed of, of being able to eat figs, have orgies, and play with the arts all day and yet we all get up and commute to work and back instead because wealth is so unevenly distributed.

You’d rather see nonsense then. You can’t dissolve a country. A country doesn’t go bust, stop trading, wrap things up and shut down. It may have hyper inflation and gain a poor populace but it cannot shut down. It can always leverage for credit because it will always exist. The terms of credit may be awful but the ability to raise funds somehow is always there. Literally printing money, bonds, government takeover of private institutes, whatever, there’s many many many more levers available to a government than other entities.

A country cannot go bankrupt. Therefore the title is bollocks, therefore a downvote and move on is warranted. Even if the content is good, they’ve spoiled any respectability with the title.

This is exactly why the new lemmy.world rules where moderators should challenge everything instead of removing bad content is bonkers because it encourages nonsense and misinformation.

Countries can’t go bankrupt… anyone who puts that in their title is full of shit.