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sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
What do you need a $200 bill for?
We're in an interesting situation where inflation has made these chicken shit denominations worthless but large denominations are not useful since big transactions are handled by check, card, wire, etc.
I don't even know when is the last time I've held a $100 bill despite selling my last car for cash money. I got an envelope of twenties for it.
ChickenOverlord
1d ago
I might be pulling a mathcel move (so somone correct me if I'm wrong) here but it looks like Bluesky's decline has slightly accelerated in the last week: https://bluefacts.app/bluesky-user-growth?t=7d
Compare the last 7 days to the last 4 weeks. I would expect the figures for the last 7 days to be roughly 1/4 of the figures for the last 4 weeks, but in most categories it appears to be almost half.
No idea if this has anything to do with the CEO waffles nonsense or if it's for completely unrelated reason. Bluesky was already in decline anyway
sarker
It isn't happening, and if it is, it's a bad thing
1d ago
Put, like, Bessie Coleman on one of them but keep Andrew Jackson. None of these ‘literally who?’ Activist women like they’ve got on quarters now, though.
Coleman is definitely a "literally who." How about, like, Louisa May Alcott or something?
phailyoor
1d ago
Bluesky is apparently imploding
Big nothingburger. I don't see it actually affecting the user numbers much.
netstack
Texas is freedom land
1d ago
No, I’m pretty sure they just had a disjoint set of witches.
TowardsPanna
1d ago
Debased?
hydroacetylene
1d ago
Red triber, not going to watch a bunch of YouTube videos, but lots of blue tribe speech norms just come off as… some combination of effeminate, corpo-speak, and backstabbing. A ‘firm’ tone of voice is what an honest man who’s sûre of what he’s saying uses.
Pulpachair
1d ago
It’s a common tool for things like snake training your dog. A dog’s prey instinct and natural curiosity can get it killed or maimed in a number of ways, so it CAN be useful as a training tool to help stop dangerous behavior.
My proposal is that we redefine the system at 1/25 the value is to protect more long term inflation.
The quarter becomes the ‘new penny’, and we mint a new nickel, dime, quarter and bills appropriately scaled in value
hydroacetylene
1d ago
There are entire companies specializing in figuring out after tax price right now. Presumably ‘opt in based on your location’ would be a disclaimer on e-commerce sites not much different than ‘allow cookies’.
hydroacetylene
1d ago
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Declare goldbacks legal tender alongside the dollar
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Introduce a $250 bill with Trump on it, but completely change the dollar bills- there should be bills of different sizes(physical length) to help the blind. A nice set of decorations in bright colours might be good- celebrate US achievement(moon landing and stuff). Put, like, Bessie Coleman on one of them but keep Andrew Jackson. None of these ‘literally who?’ Activist women like they’ve got on quarters now, though.
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Pennies are stupid but dimes and nickels are useful for irregularly priced items. I’d say keep em.
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Pass a law requiring prices and salaries to be advertised after tax.
anti_dan
1d ago
Okay, but what if the state wants to regulate radio transmissions and gives the board the ability to impose sanctions on rogue radio broadcasters? Is the radio now a medical treatment?
Dirty_DemSoc
Registered Demoncrat
1d ago
In particular, I would argue that outside your odd lizardman, none of the smarter MAGA people believe the narrative. I think it highly unlikely that Charlie Kirk thought, in his heart of hearts, that Biden was committing treason for which his countrymen would sent him to the gallows if they knew about it. But the narrative played really well with the idiots, so he spread it.
As much as I’d personally like to believe that, but I doubt it. I’m on record several times advocating for people to actually assume that the “other side” probably believes what they say they do, and I think that’s the case here as well- while, as an admitted partisan, I think right-wing influencers are full of shit, I’m sure they genuinely believe that shit; after all, after decades of the conservative media ecosystem being increasingly divorced from reality (at an alarmingly accelerated rate in the last few years), it’s probably never been easier to buy into ‘your side’s’ narrative than it’s ever been before.
The ‘smart’ people on the right don’t necessarily have to be any better-informed than ‘the idiots’ that make up the rank-and-file. Possibly even the opposite; greater reasoning can easily turn into greater capacity for rationalization.
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1d ago
I'm in favor. Japan has a 500 yen coin and it's quite convenient.
Tractatus
1d ago
It is not a working dog, and "lay around to be a prop for a stream" isn't a job a dog is bred for, nor is it one we should be training them for, it completely absurd.
I don’t think Reddit is really perceived as being “neutral” any more. It never had the mainstream traction Twitter did, and my general perception of Reddit is that it was always a fringe platform, probably less popular than, say Discord. In my real world social circle, only one person uses Reddit, and the general consensus is that our Reddit user is a bit of a loose cannon.
Reddit is so inaccurate, I would get more fair and balanced reporting at DailyKos (another far left progressive site), and I really don’t think anyone in the real world has the same respect for Reddit that they have had for Twitter. Wikipedia, of course, doesn’t consider Reddit reliable.
As an aside, I have a lot of respect for Jesse Singal because he defended Alcoholics Anonymous in an era when the left wing media was using questionable (and ultimately false) science to claim AA didn’t work. Waffles indeed.
anti_dan
1d ago
And if the state delegates the power to a medical board because they think the 1st Amendment is icky then???
ActuallyATleilaxuGhola
Axolotl Tank Class of '24
1d ago
I admit I forgot abot Von Braun, so I deserve that.
NunoSempere
1d ago
Hoffmeister25
American Bukelismo Enthusiast
1d ago
it looks to me very much like you wanted a religion and went shopping and chose the one that suited your goals and lifestyle.
Then you have clearly missed what I have said, both here and elsewhere, about this church specifically. My mother was born into, and baptized into, the LDS church, before leaving it as a teenager. I come from several generations of Mormons, going all the way back to one of the earliest waves of Scottish converts. It is the only extant religious tradition to which I can claim to have an authentic ancestral connection; my dad’s side of the family, so far as I can tell, has not had any serious religious convictions for several generations now. Mormonism is all I’ve got in terms of an inherited faith.
One of the primary things that attracts me to this church is precisely the fact that I’m not just choosing it a la carte from a menu of options. If I was, this isn’t the one I would pick! I would just pick one that still allowed me to drink coffee and beer and a nice glass of white wine. I would pick one that didn’t have such an improbable origin story and didn’t require so much epistemic legwork to accept. The fact that I’m instead twisting myself into some knots epistemically in order to make sense of this church’s claims should be evidence to you that I’m not just opening up a menu of religions and picking the one that suits me the best.
Pynewacket
1d ago
Which is all well and good, but I just wish people who did this would be open about it instead of deceiving others about their embrace of self-deception over truth.
one of their self delusions is that they are unbiased of course. Rationalism isn't about rational thought but rationalizing our own biases.
RoyGBivensAction
Zensunni Scientologist
1d ago
I see from the $500 bill article I'm not the only nitwit to conflate the two:
In June 2024, Representative Paul Gosar introduced a bill into Congress which would, if passed, require the Treasury to issue $500 bills featuring President Donald Trump
Price including the sales tax is the norm in Europe, the lack of it was one of the biggest culture shocks the last time I was in the states. I understand some jurisdictions have passed laws against drip-pricing - the idea that the price indicated must be the final price (i.e. including the sales tax) seems like an obvious extension of that principle.
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