They’ve misunderstood. They’re referring to the function where customers could download the book files directly instead of in the app, and then transfer the files to their kindle.

Calibre-web isn’t Calibre. It uses the same database, but that’s about it, unless you use the optional conversion mod on the linuxserver container.

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.

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.

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

Post-war Japanese culture is very american though.

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

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.

One of the early successes of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was when they took out a barracks of foreign volunteers because around 40 of them were ex-british soldiers and Russian intelligence linked their phones to historical records collected outside British army bases.

USD is purely used because it has hitherto been stable. Previously it was sterling. Not something to get knotted up about.

Is it right-left? A year ago the Iranian regime was the devil for rounding up and slaughtering women for not wearing headscarves but now the Ayatollah is some sort of Socialist martyr just because Israel was the one who took him out. Its fickle and not based on true conviction.

Reality Checkpoint

They do.

It wouldn’t be fair use at all.

The F-35 mainly uses Pratt & Whitney engines; the RR engine is for the B variant. Although, 15% of every F-35 is designed and built in the UK.