Looks like your book is in freedom units rather than gold old chap units.

1 Imperial gallon = 4546.092 Milliliter

1 US gallon = 3785.4118 Milliliter

Thanks. I kinda knew it wasn’t great, but didn’t know the correct term.

I guess you could say ask the Catholic church about Irish mother and baby homes. But the meme was doing nations.

The Australian’s about their treatment of aborigines first nation Australians

The Irish about mother and baby homes.

China about Uyghurs

It also moves most of the population that is produced away from where people live and so out of their lungs.

And it cost an estimated $200bn to $600bn in 1999. Adjusted for inflation that’s between about $370 billion and $1.1 trillion in 2023 money.

Wonder how advanced it is. Maybe you could get away with avocado as loose potatoes as the shape is closer.

The point that op is rose tinting the past when all that’s happened is we’ve moved from one evil megacorp dominating the internet to another?

Ahh. So a newbie. There was a short time which was as you described, which you seem to have started your internet journey during. Before then it was IE and plugins otherwise loads of sites wouldn’t work right, after that is now with everything claiming it needs chrome.

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Lol you clearly weren’t actually using the internet years ago. If you didn’t have Microsoft internet explorer and flash plugin loads of sites wouldn’t work.

That’s a terrible reference. Do they mean the first quarto, second quatro or first folio?