• FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world
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    • Constant viking raids throughout most of history
    • Nowadays we get a lot of shipwrecked yachts and other pleasure vessels
    • Very low taxes in the northernmost province, very high taxes in the bit next to portugal.
    • Similarly to ireland we have very low taxes for corporations. Ireland tends to attract more business this way because billionaires face persistant looting when they settle down in 2. It’s just in our culture.
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      I used to live on the 2’s Sharpie Cove, right as the two seas would smash together into one. The storms were immense, but it was the only point on the entire damn island free of seagulls

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        You’re right! They misspelled Br*ta*n!

        edit: Should have considered that we’re rendering markdown before I used asterisks so wantonly.

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            In the spirit of heeding your username, I shall engage.

            In markdown, if you use a single asterisk it doesn’t mean much unless it’s part of a list. However, if you use two, it will italicize the text between them. Britain, for example, would bring Brtan because the T and A (yes, I’m aware of the abbreviation) would be between them.

            edit: Seven days later, I saw this post again. I realize now you weren’t talking about the formatting but how many instances of the offending character to replace, like non global stream editing or sort of like ƒ.

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    Just because its shape vaguely resembles a 2, that doesn’t mean that the country is called “2”. It’s actually called 3.

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    It’s a big country, lots of cultural differences. Unfortunately the education system is pretty bad here.

    The only country name we’ve learnt to spell is Portugal. We’re pretty bad at all the others.

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    It’s nice and quiet, with little pollution.

    In 1952 we passed a constitutional amendment banning traffic from our air space, resulting in all transatlantic flights crossing the northern routes you fly today.

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    Why do euros, mexican pesos and peruvian soles have the same design? Grey/silver outer ring with a gold center

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      If I had to guess, probably all come from some sort of template coin made by a single supplier or made by the same machine that has template designs.

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    Forget about 2, have you tried hiking the “EURO” mountain range? It goes up into space!

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    Someone send this to Randall Monroe, how fucked would we be if we actually created this piece of land?

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    Well you know in 2 we have a nice weather… we intercept all the Gulf of America Stream