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One of the main arguments for Brexit was that Britain would be able to negotiate its own trade deals with other countries on its own. Nearly 5 years after Brexit has come into effect the UK has only negotiated trade deals with Japan, Australia and New Zealand, and as this video explains none of them are particularly good deals for Britain. With Trump preparing to impose import tariffs of 10% or 20% on all countries, the British economy is going to suffer even more. The most surprising is...
Thread 'Do you know the 0€ banknotes?'
The euro is probably the only currency in the world that issues banknotes with a face value of zero. These are collectibles and there are hundreds of different designs, but they are genuine —although unofficial — banknotes with real security features like holograms, microprints and UV ink. At present there are over 5,000 unique designs. They typically cost €2. I think that they make great souvenirs — much better than postcards, t-shirts or tacky items like snow globes. I've been...
I've been using an ad blocker on my browsers for many years now, both on PC and smartphone. I really hate ads so it's not even optional for me. For example I never watch YouTube on my TV because I cannot enable the ad blocker on it, and I would rather not watch YouTube at all than watch it with ads interrupting all the time. Some browsers already have an integrated at blocker by default like Brave, which is one of the best browsers on the market. It's essentially a version of Chrome...
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