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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When the $1 coins were released, most stuff in vending machines were still within the cost of a dollar. Thought I'm not disagreeing with your comment. Coins, for the most part, are relegated to coin jars and aren't really "spent" in the same way that bills are.

The problem is that coins generally are just so inconvenient. I only hold onto them for the rare occasion where I need to feed a meter.

Edit: This conversation reminded me of a great YouTube video on the subject of how the shape of money makes it useful

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I would pay good money to have Trump be in sort of a Truman Show situation, where he's Truman and everyone around him are actors.

He gets to be president but inside his little bubble.

He can be a dictator and then have his long lost father make an appearance around sweeps.

We get a sane president.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 59 points 10 months ago (5 children)

It's one of the jobs of a bank though. They are supposed to exchange damaged bills and then exchange them with the mint, who then destroys them.

Honestly we need to get rid of the $1 bill generally but that's a completely different post all together.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 10 months ago

Jesus fuck. I didn't think about that.

Well now I'm convinced to not vote for Biden! Thank you comrade!

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 136 points 10 months ago (10 children)

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

If anything, I'd love a diff of each edit vs the ability to ninja edit

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

TBF....voter intimidation is likely to be coming from the Republicans. I wouldn't trust any sort of hotline they post, even if it was in good faith.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Voyager had it's own "Measure of a Man" episode a la the EMH in Season 7, episode 20 "Author, Author". A lot of the same themes were there. But what has bothered me for years is at the end of the episode, it's implied that there is a number of EMH units that have been "reading" the Doctor's holonovel, and building a resistance.

This was never explored in any future Star Trek, was it? It wasn't talked about in Picard or Lower Decks. And Picard had the whole AI plot line.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 10 months ago

Because of racism.

If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.

- Lyndon Johnson

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 10 months ago

Dude...He fucking signed into law that fed kids.

If anything, he's earned it.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 10 months ago

Of all the shitting Trump does to immigrants, he signed the bill into law that required giving each naturalized citizen a Glock and an AR-15 upon taking the oath.

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