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Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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9·4 days agoWait until you hear about the Alderney pound, Manx pound, Jersey pound, Guernsey pound, Falkland Islands pound, Gibraltar pound, Saint Helena pound, …
which ones are accepted where is... complicated:
from wikipedia:
Throughout the UK, £1 and £2 coins are legal tender for any amount, with the other coins being legal tender only for limited amounts. Bank of England notes are legal tender for any amount in England and Wales, but not in Scotland or Northern Ireland.
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Bank of England, Scottish, Northern Irish, Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Gibraltar, and Falkland banknotes may be offered anywhere in the UK, although there is no obligation to accept them as a means of payment, and acceptance varies. For example, merchants in England generally accept Scottish and Northern Irish notes, but some unfamiliar with them may reject them.[142] However, Scottish and Northern Irish notes both tend to be accepted in Scotland and Northern Ireland, respectively. Merchants in England generally do not accept Jersey, Guernsey, Manx, Gibraltarian, and Falkland notes but Manx notes are generally accepted in Northern Ireland.[143] Bank of England notes are generally accepted in the Falklands and Gibraltar, but for example, Scottish and Northern Irish notes are not.[144] Since all of the notes are denominated in sterling, banks will exchange them for locally issued notes at face value,[145][failed verification] though some in the UK have had trouble exchanging Falkland Islands notes.[146]
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0·5 days agothe edit history on Shehbaz Sharif’s tweet shows that it began with “Draft - Pakistan’s PM Message on X” when it was first posted 😭
2·5 days agothanks, i edited the post to link that instead
12·6 days agoYou asked a question and answered it yourself?
I posted the 10 points according to one source and then said
There are many varied but similar versions of these points circulating elsewhere
The US military takes enlistees at 17 and a half years old. Usually from poor families.
I believe the US lets people enlist at 17 (with parental consent) but they don’t deploy them to combat before they’re 18.
I encourage you to you watch this movie, btw.
And see also:
You’re ignoring the fact your article also doesn’t provide source
Which article are you saying doesn’t provide a source? I see only two articles linked in this thread and they both refer to several sources 🤔
I am sincerely baffled as to what your perspective about this story is.
Do you believe that EU and US officials are spreading Russian propaganda via the Associated Press about Russia supplying drones to Iran (which, as you said earlier, you believe they do not in fact have the ability to manufacture) and therefore Russia’s denial is actually true but also part of their cunning plan to deceive us?
Or what?
Of course Russia denys it
But… just a few hours ago didn’t you deny it too? 🤔
(“No they aren’t” was your first comment in this thread)
No they aren’t, Russia wouldn’t have purchased thousands of Iranian drones if they could produce them domestically.
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Russia put out propaganda
The original link in this post is to an article by the Associated Press (syndicated on a website owned by Bell Canada) and it cites “U.S. and European officials” as its primary source to support the claim made in the headline that Russia is supplying drones to Iran.
I’m curious: did you call this Russian propaganda after reading only the headline, without actually realizing who is saying what here?
Correct me if I’m wrong but I suspect that after you read the article and see that Russia in fact denies sending drones to Iran (and says the seven trucks they just sent have food and medical supplies) you’ll probably change your mind and decide that they probably are in fact sending drones.
for one thing, you’re in a country where this once happened 🤦
I am a white European Spanish woman
Race is a social construct and in the eyes of your friend’s racist dad you are apparently not white (even if he might have classified you as white if he had only your appearance to go by and hadn’t seen your name).
Here are a few somewhat relevant wikipedia articles:
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Hispanic_and_Latino_Americans
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_whiteness_in_the_United_States
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census
and also, outside the US:
3·19 days agounfortunately, like its predecessor (Nokia’s Maemo/Meego), Jolla’s SailfishOS has never been (and has never had plans to be) fully free/libre open source software.
many components of it are freely licensed, but not nearly enough to constitute an actual mobile operating system you can use.
to all five of your questions: yes
The headline VW to shift from cars to missile defence in deal with Israel’s Iron Dome maker strongly implies that they are going make less cars as a result of their military business, but the article actually says this “shift” is at one of their car factories which they had planned to shut down next year.
The article also neglects to mention some relevant information about the VW Group such as its origins and who owns them today (although they are a publicly traded company, the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, the German state of Lower Saxony, and the Porsche family respectively own 10.4%, 11.8%, and 31.9% of the shares, and the Porsche family holds 53.3% the voting shares).
7·22 days agowhat happened next? (do the terms actually allow you to cancel it immediately for no cost, or is their $10-per-month-for-nothing offer an alternative to paying a cancellation fee?)
Supersingular isogeny key exchange (SIKE) is very secure post-quantum replacement for Diffie-Hellman…
SIKE!
