Thanks. That graphic is great.

Thanks, that helped a lot… I didn’t even consider many smaller kingdoms. Don’t know why.

Since Italy became a country in 1861, there has been a surefire way to know who is and isn’t an Italian citizen: look at their parents.

🤔🥴 Somebody is going to have to explain that first sentence to me…

I know there was an “Italian Kingdom” around that time, did that change it’s status from something to a country?

Yeah, I must have deleted the other links when I was adding in the quote by mistake. It was more to point out that he is sticking to it, and the link to the UN site was to refer to the main link on the BBC site and also the Guardian link (now added back in) but I messed it up trying out another Lemmy app. I am now back on PC and Raccoon.

I knew it was Australia, didn’t realise that there was such a monopoly. Still possible, just makes it harder. Are there stores that aren’t part of any chain? They’re dying out here, usually the owners have signed up to a franchise.

It’s unlikely to happen anyway, but there should be a way that we can universally stop greed.

Boycott the stores that use them, it might help them change their mind behind they become the norm.