repungnant_canary

This has little to do with socialism/capitalism and more with that fact that the economy was centrally (terribly) governed and most of the products were exported to the "friend nation USSR"

If you could even get all that, and if you could you had to queue for days

If you consider that a car weighs hundreds of kilograms but its contact surface with ground is something like 100 squared centimetres, that pressure makes sense

Or this one damn fork!

Compulsory quarantine for people coming from the US into EU is gonna happen very fast

Interesting. Do you know why it is like that in the US and not in some other countries? Is it because the jury makes the decision?

Public services have this one difference that they're governed by a democratically chosen body

Depends on the country

Can't the attorney appeal the verdict in the US?

This reminds of the story of some company not shipping to the Rhode Island because it's an island not a state. Maybe someone here remembers more details

"We love unregulated markets" - we say in unison

Also, isn't lemmy.WORLD supposed to be a worldwide instance? I can discuss jury nullification as much as I want because I'll never be in the US jury. From my point of view, if I discussed jury nullification and got banned for it, I would treat that as a quite aggressive restriction of free speech.