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London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by herpdyderp »

gyomu wrote: post #71
roughly wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Christ, yeah - I came here to post the same quote. What kind of horrific shit does one need to go through in life to become capable of uttering that kind of horseshit with a straight face?

Maybe we shouldn’t be casting stones from the HN glass house, because literally every other startup here has a mission statement that sounds as ridiculous as this

I wish they didn't, I have such a hard time figuring out what any of them actually do.

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by robertlagrant »

Symbiote wrote: post #123
Hilift wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This is completely incorrect, please don't spread culture-war lies on HN. The £12.50 charge is for old, polluting cars. Petrol cars made since around 2005 are exempt, and diesel cars since 2015. Vans from ~2006 and 2016 respectively. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/car...

A 2015 car is not old in a world of reduce, reuse, recycle.

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by vidarh »

actionfromafar wrote: post #125
cjrp wrote: post #90

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Separate police force too.

And in elections, corporations have a vote. Corporation votes vastly outnumber human resident votes.

Though they're outnumbered in large part because almost nobody lives in City of London.

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by IG_Semmelweiss »

tim333 wrote: post #147

The NYT has a much more detailed article on this. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/28/world/europe/london-smith... or https://archive.ph/dz5zY Including that William (Braveheart) Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered there in 1305.

Meat Market... indeed!

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by dylan604 »

herpdyderp wrote: post #161
gyomu wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we shouldn’t be casting stones from the HN glass house, because literally every other startup here has a mission statement that sounds as ridiculous as this

I wish they didn't, I have such a hard time figuring out what any of them actually do.

That's the great thing with such an ambiguous statement is that they can pivot at any point without having say they are pivoting. They are in a position to do what ever it is that someone inquires

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by dylan604 »

seizethecheese wrote: post #150
gyomu wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe we shouldn’t be casting stones from the HN glass house, because literally every other startup here has a mission statement that sounds as ridiculous as this

Arguably, startups should have absurd mission statements, while managers of the city of London should be more sober.

A sober Englishman? Is there such a thing?

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by fecal_henge »

robertlagrant wrote: post #162
Symbiote wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is completely incorrect, please don't spread culture-war lies on HN. The £12.50 charge is for old, polluting cars. Petrol cars made since around 2005 are exempt, and diesel cars since 2015. Vans from ~2006 and 2016 respectively. https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/ultra-low-emission-zone/car...

A 2015 car is not old in a world of reduce, reuse, recycle.

So reuse them with the caveat you have to pay a little when you drive in a certain 0.6% of the uk.

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Post by FredPret »

fecal_henge wrote: post #167
robertlagrant wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A 2015 car is not old in a world of reduce, reuse, recycle.

So reuse them with the caveat you have to pay a little when you drive in a certain 0.6% of the uk.

The most economically valuable 0.6%

Re: London's 850-year-old food markets to close

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Post by bearbin »

PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #64

The same thing happened to Covent Garden in the 1970s - the original site was closed, a new one was opened that over time became very evidently much better suited to being a large scale wholesale fruit and vegetable market. Everybody and their uncle bitched and moaned about it, but I think there are few people today who would argue that London would be better off if Covent Garden was still the central produce market…

The New Covent Garden Market itself is currently in the middle of a multi-decade redevelopment, they've slightly reduced the footprint and sold off some land for development, and the remains (still a massive area) is being _very_ slowly converted into a more modern design - sadly not really a market where you can actually go on foot to buy things, but a co-location area for lots of wholesalers to warehouse and deliver from.
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