Well no, as French and German Euros are equal. Scottish and NI notes are subsidiary to English notes - for every £ a Scottish or NI bank issues, they must deposit the same amount with the Bank of England.

The six Scottish and Northern Irish issuing banks buy sterling currency from the Bank of England using the largest denomination banknote, the Titan (£100 million). This is the only note printed in-house by the BoE. The issuing banks can then print notes up to the value of the titans held in their BoE account.

This used to be common throughout the UK, but the last English banks gave up their issuing rights in the C20th leaving the monopoly in England & Wales with the BoE. Scotland has a particular interest in having their own notes as they invented banknotes, and while they used English notes after Union, a 19th century poetic revivalist movement (also responsible for kilts and tartan) led to the reintroduction of the Scottish notes.

I mean feeding the military is fucked up.

Never heard of that.

For strictly passenger vessels yes, but once large amounts of cargo get involved shipping takes the win every time.

Rail is the most carbon efficient land transport, but anything on the water will beat it on emissions.

You mean bunker oil not diesel. First, it is what is left over from fracking so in itself isn’t polluting much extra in production. Then, as a ship is buoyant, it burns much less fuel per ton-km so it pollutes exponentially less than any other form of motorised transport. Planes are at the other end of the scale.

Mara Largo? The home of the bone apple tit.

I hope you don’t mean that. You pee in the dryer as vapour expands to fill a volume.

Good. Now, have your people tried doing that, but with a road?

It seems someone in your region needs to learn about bridge technology.

Post-war Japanese culture is very american though.

Hitler was never admitted to art school in the first place.

But he’s already had two consecutive terms.

(Some people are so terminally political they have their sense of humour surgically removed)

Socialism is just the highest tier plan on Taxes+

Did you forget the huge bombs going off in British cities too? Mad Cow? Black Wednesday?

At least round here if there’s no wiring to be done the ISP just couriers the boxes and lets the customer plug them in.

Not quite there yet. Still needs to implement ratings

The last time the US went isolationist, the League of Nations collapsed, Fascism spread from Italy to Spain and Germany, Japan went full military dictatorship.