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.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck that.

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.

Edit: The Guardian has reported on it so it appears to be true, nice one!

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…

Grond

BBC giving free advertising in disguise, wtf? Evan Davis can’t have a podcast about heat pumps because they’re “controversial” but they can make fluff pieces for private corporations? What a shower of bastards.

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.

Cruel and unusual punishment from a Labour government. Great.

Interesting that £1k of benefits cheating will give the government carte blanche to look through your bank accounts but fraud and tax avoidance by the richest in society and HMRC can’t do a thing. Funny how that works…

“The only recourse you’ll have” is the whole point. You have no recourse on Reddit. There is no other Reddit server. There are many Lemmy servers, all over the world, with very different views and policies.

C o r r u p t i o n

Yay!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

If you eat meat, there’s no real reason not to eat haggis. It’s no more gross than eating steak or chicken when you get down to the nittygritty of it. It’s all animal bits at the end of the day. If you’ve ever eaten hot dogs, then you’ve probably eaten far worse “quality” than is in haggis. You’ll be surprised how delicious it is! Worst case, you don’t like it and don’t have it again, but I’ve yet to meet anyone who didn’t enjoy haggis after opening their mind to trying it.

And if you don’t eat meat, vegetarian haggis is pretty good too. Not quite The Real McCoy, but not far off.

European democracy has many, many flaws, but compared with Russian dictatorship, it’s a utopia. This is a ridiculous take.

Which country is it that invaded its neighbour again? Romania or Russia? Which country is regularly assassinating journalists? Germany or Russia?

What’s the point in mining the Moon if we’re just gonna leave what’s been mined there? Of course it would be removed.

Where did you get that 10% is what would be required to affect the tides? Why don’t we just say it’s 90% to back your point up even more?

The point is, if allowed, we’ll fuck it up like we fuck up every environment. Why must we insist on destroying everything just so some rich people can get richer? Climate change is upon us and instead of acting to prevent it we’re looking to do similar destruction elsewhere.

When you look up at the vastness and marvel of space and planetary bodies, are you desperate to see dump trucks, bucket excavators, and orange flashing lights looking back at you?

Until we’ve mined so much that the ratio of mass between the Earth and the Moon causes tidal changes and eventually the Earth pulls the Moon into the Earth and all life is destroyed. How quickly do you think we can speedrun that?

The industrial revolution was about 150-200 years ago and our planet is dying because of it. Can we beat that record?

Edit: also, who gets dibs on the moon? Something tells me the vast majority of the population won’t get a say and mysteriously, somehow, it’ll be American mega-corps doing the mining

Just works, sometimes. Other times you’ll be left with a blank screen and the need for a second device to search the mint forums. It all depends on the age and support for your hardware.

TLDR: The Gestapo and Stasi

Don’t look up.

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.