This is a thoughtful reply. I will just say that the UK also has public toilets all over the place, and a desire for people to not screw & get high in the cubicles. Ditto many other countries. But I've never been anywhere else with this door gap problem, where no-one gets privacy.
I did once use a UK bathroom in a supermarket where the lighting was all blue, which makes it hard to find a vein to inject. But the doors still closed properly.
Sticker price isn't the price you pay at the till. Why? Why do you do that.
Massive gaps between the walls and doors of public lavatory cubicles. This is not some mystical, advanced technology. Get it together.
I quit with the death of RiF.
For non-UK readers: UK councils have limited revenue-raising powers compared to local government in other countries, and rely on 3 sources of income:
This amounts to c. 7% of the total UK tax base, versus c. 32% collected locally in Germany or 50% collected locally in Canada.
Central government grants were cut by 40% in real terms between 09/10 and 19/20 from £46.5bn to £28.0bn.
Council tax has gone up 30% over the same period, but it can't go up more than 2% annually without passing a referendum (unlikely). Some councils in dire straits have recently been allowed to raise it 5%.
Local authorities have been underfunded for over a decade. Other UK councils which have already declared bankruptcy, either through running out of money, or through losing vast amounts of money in risky schemes attempting to replace missing central funding:
Apartments are residentially zoned. Hotels are commercially zoned (for good reason).
Turning residential homes into unregulated mini-hotels at scale depletes housing stock, and is a nuisance to residents.
This law effectively blocks residential homes from continuing to be used as hotel businesses operating out of residentially zoned areas, allowing residential units to once again be used as housing, and removing the nuisance to residents.
Please explain why you see this as a NIMBY net negative for housing.
How is a law ending the stealth conversion of residentially zoned areas into commercial a net negative for housing?
Zoning laws exist for a reason.
It was eventually removed from the woman’s abdomen in 2021, approximately 18 months after the initial procedure and a number of visits to her GP. On one occasion, her pain was so severe that she visited the emergency department at Auckland city hospital.
I wish this was surprising.
From heart disease to IUDs: How doctors dismiss women’s pain
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/interactive/2022/women-pain-gender-bias-doctors
‘I was told to live with it’: women tell of doctors dismissing their pain
In an earlier interview this month with Fox News, Ramaswamy said of the layoffs: “What [Musk] did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do with the administrative state … Take out the 75% of the dead weight cost, improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do.”
Unrelated:
Elon Musk admits X (Twitter) 'may fail' after sacking more than 80% of staff, charging for verification and rebranding https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12432129/amp/Elon-Musk-admits-X-Twitter-fail-sacking-80-staff-charging-verification-rebranding.html
"Media Matters' report said that X remains a "dangerous cesspool of content, especially for advertisers," noting that "since Elon Musk took over the company," X has restored extremist accounts and "placed ads for numerous brands directly on Holocaust denial, white nationalist, and neo-Nazi accounts."
“Elon won’t confirm a date, then says he needs surgery, and now asks to do a practice round in my backyard instead."
What is easily understandable, in far less than 10 minutes, is that a) this is incredibly hard to follow, and b) your mass-posting this everywhere does not comes across well.
If, as you allude to, you have retained legal counsel, I urge you to ask them if posting this all over the place and getting into internet bunfights is likely to impact your case... and I also urge you to follow their advice when they advise you to stop.