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Saladman posted:
To be more specific, it's nominally independent of the Euro, but the entire currency policy is that it must maintain the same conversion rate to the Euro at all times. So in theory Denmark could opt out, but in practice it's a palette swap. Also we aren't directly bound to support the Euro countries, which I think was relevant when Greece got hosed.
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When I take a stroll across the border into Denmark the shops take Euros anyway. 
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Saladman posted:Lebanon has also been fully legally dollarized for at least 25 years, so much so that it was used interchangeably (and in mixed bills) with the lira up until the end of 2019. Now it’s even more common, and the lira is just used for small change. actually the new-fangled euro is pegged to the older danish krone
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Mar 4, 2024 15:46
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Wrong. All of us are using the Kosovo Euro
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Antigravitas posted:When I take a stroll across the border into Denmark the shops take Euros anyway. That's called Tysklands Odde, the German Peninsula, and it's not really Denmark. Also it's just common sense in border regions to take birth currencies. The real question is why you're going over æ græns in the wrong direction to shop? Germany is notoriously cheaper than Denmark
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Mar 4, 2024 16:02
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I assume you're being hyperbolic but it would be pretty funny if Jutland in its entirety was considered the German Peninsula
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Mar 4, 2024 16:08
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It's called Jut Land because it juts out of Germany.
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Mar 4, 2024 16:13
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 Slesvig-Holsten should just annex Jutland and secede from Germany.e: I travel light and buy local groceries. Also, Danish yogurt.
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Antigravitas posted:
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Phlegmish posted:I assume you're being hyperbolic but it would be pretty funny if Jutland in its entirety was considered the German Peninsula Northern Jutland is an island in itself, so only up to below the brim is the German Peninsula. But yeah, Copenhagen centrist hyperbole.
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Mar 4, 2024 16:57
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Since they dug the Kiel Canal all of Denmark is technically an island.
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The Chicks Club Blast? Sounds like a fun Friday night
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Ras Het posted:Wait til you learn about the Danish krone Vincent Van Goatse posted:Since they dug the Kiel Canal all of Denmark is technically an island.
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Mar 4, 2024 18:03
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Would be worth a dollar if we weren't shackled to the Euro. We could've ridden Novo Nordisk to the moon. last time denmark tried this it basically unified germany so what im saying is this time it'll unify the EU under the prussian boot
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Mar 4, 2024 18:05
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Shout out to the Chicxulub impact event! Without it we’d still be small proto-primates. We wouldn’t be here to get this ice and tattoos.
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Mar 4, 2024 18:10
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Smashed all of Europe's windows, allowing Frédéric Bastiat to compete economically with the dinosaurs.
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Mar 4, 2024 18:12
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:last time denmark tried this it basically unified germany so what im saying is this time it'll unify the EU under the prussian boot
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Archduke Frantz Fanon posted:last time denmark tried this it basically unified germany so what im saying is this time it'll unify the EU under the prussian boot Is it not already?
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Is it not already? they hosed up and now its in the iron first of a bunch of waffle eating bureaucrats
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Mar 4, 2024 18:53
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Antigravitas posted:When I take a stroll across the border into Denmark the shops take Euros anyway. I live in Washington and when I go to Canada all the shops near the border take US dollars and give me Canadian change. It's better to exchange money for any big purchases, but I'm not going to sweat the exchange rate over a soda at the gas station.
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Air Skwirl posted:I live in Washington and when I go to Canada all the shops near the border take US dollars and give me Canadian change. It's better to exchange money for any big purchases, but I'm not going to sweat the exchange rate over a soda at the gas station. In that case you at least have a proper border though (not saying it's a good thing). Private Speech fucked around with this message at 00:57 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 00:51
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You could go between the US/Mexico/Canada borders without a passport when I was a kid. Thanks for ruining a good thing, Bush.
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BonHair posted:To be more specific, it's nominally independent of the Euro, but the entire currency policy is that it must maintain the same conversion rate to the Euro at all times. So in theory Denmark could opt out, but in practice it's a palette swap. Also we aren't directly bound to support the Euro countries, which I think was relevant when Greece got hosed. The gulf states do the same thing with the dollar, to circle this digression back to the original map that started it.
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Jean-Paul Shartre posted:The gulf states do the same thing with the dollar, to circle this digression back to the original map that started it. That plus Eritrea and Djibouti, and much of the Caribbean, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_circulating_fixed_exchange_rate_currencies Kind of surprising that Bermuda is pegged to the US$ and not the GB£, and same with Aruba instead of being pegged to the Euro - or just straight up using - the Euro. Also I wonder why "Falklands Island Pound" and "Panamanian Balboa" are listed as separate currencies, but not e.g. Scottish pound, when they're literally identical and printed/minted by the UK and US, respectively. E: Looks like those pseudo-currencies get their own Forex code for some reason that isn't quite clear to me, whereas Scotland still uses the GBP Forex code. Saladman fucked around with this message at 18:54 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 18:46
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Saladman posted:That plus Eritrea and Djibouti, and much of the Caribbean, apparently: Maybe because Falklands Pounds and Balboas aren't interchangeable the same way scottish and english pounds are. You can pay for something with scottish banknotes in england but you can't pay for something with Balboas in the US.
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Saladman posted:That plus Eritrea and Djibouti, and much of the Caribbean, apparently: I guess it makes sense. Those places like Aruba are right next to the United States, especially if you count Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands and whatnot, and like it or not, the US dollar is the world's reserve currency. The euro is a distant second...I think? Not sure how it actually compares to the yuan or whatever, but it doesn't really matter compared to the undisputed number one, namely the $.
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Weembles posted:you can't pay for something with Balboas in the US. Well, you can. The "Balboa" is literally US dollars, like not even a palette swap, they are literally verbatim exact US dollars. Their coins have different stamps on them, but they're printed by the US mint and they work just fine in vending machines in the US. Bank accounts in Panama are in US$, there is no transaction fee to use a US account in Panama or vice-versa. E: Except their dollar coin is different from the US's. The others are identical. Saladman fucked around with this message at 18:57 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Weembles posted:You can pay for something with scottish banknotes in england
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The automated machines will take them but yeah otherwise you're just trying to convince people this weird money they almost never see is not fake.
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Trying to convince the bartender at 1am that Monopoly is a place in Lanarkshire.
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Remember working at the charity shop and the manager was sure that The Pen would detect all fraud. Yeah if it's printed on office paper maybe but I don't need an iodine pen to tell me that. Thus demonstrating that the function of the pen is not to detect fraud per se but to serve as the illusion of a higher power to appeal to in times of crisis *schniff* OwlFancier fucked around with this message at 20:16 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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France having a longer border with Belgium than with Spain doesn't seem right, but maybe its northern border is just exceptionally irregular. Don't you run into a sort of 'coastline paradox' when trying to measure the length of a border, anyway?
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Only where the border is naturally defined. Land boundaries generally run from monument to monument and don't have that problem. Even ones defined as crests or catchment boundaries probably have an agreed upon survey that fixes it to a bunch of line segments. As for your water defined ones, sure you could investigate whether this pebble sits in Kentuckistan or Musoria, but usually it's just going to be reckoned to whatever resolution that the surveyor drew it on a map.
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Bringing this over from a Ukraine thread, an emblem that incorporates a very interesting map:
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Powered Descent posted:Bringing this over from a Ukraine thread, an emblem that incorporates a very interesting map: which euiv mod is that?
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That owl looks like the logo of a college sports team
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What's with the Spanish border having 2 numbers?
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Air Skwirl posted:What's with the Spanish border having 2 numbers? that's andorra
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