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ResoluteRaven
1d ago
Multiple countries have changed which side of the road they drive on, adopted the metric system, or switched the alphabet used to write their official language, so clearly such reforms are possible, even if they cause a great deal of temporary confusion. The question is simply whether the inconvenience is worth it and if the political will exists.
ResoluteRaven
1d ago
I would eliminate pennies, nickels, and dimes as you suggest, but bring back a redesigned half dollar coin as well. I also prefer dollar coins to bills, and think having both in circulation is silly. The price reform is sensible, but as others have pointed out the $200 bill would mostly just help the money laundering industry.
Ioper
1d ago
I wouldn't trust Europe to figure out a way to manufacture toilet paper really. Low cost manufacturing or processing just isn't their strong suit.
Its funny you say that seeing as europe is the world leader in the production and export of toilet paper.
self_made_human
amaratvaṃ prāpnuhi, athavā yatamāno mṛtyum āpnuhi
1d ago
Yes, from scraping your anus raw with barely processed wood. The best feature of TP is that the designers managed to make it turn red to let you know it was done!
FistfullOfCrows
1d ago
Not only should masked ICE agents continue to deport illegals anywhere they could be found, there should be a mandatory ICE detachment in every school, hospital and government building. There should be ICE backed up by the National guard at fucking Target. Don't even get me started on what I wish they would do to the anti-ice protestors.
Stefferi
Chief Suomiposter
2d ago
I wouldn't trust Europe to figure out a way to manufacture toilet paper really.
My entire nation is screaming in pain RN.
FistfullOfCrows
2d ago
TBH, I'm ecstatic, can't wait for this fake meathead to get properly canceled.
FistfullOfCrows
2d ago
The animal did something wrong though, it strayed from the desired position necessary for the stream
You have to be fucking joking. Hasan Piker is the worst sort of vapid "fake" political commentator, he's using a dog as a prop for his stupid stream? The dog is just sitting in the corner and when it decides to stretch and move he shocks the damned thing. Fuck that guy. This is what the uncanny valley was randomly selected for in our evolution, to warn us of inhuman entities pretending to be human.
FistfullOfCrows
2d ago
By this logic we've bred ourselves to have thick assess, large tits and big cocks, we've also bred ourselves not to grug smash the other guy over a disagreement of who gets the booty.
functor
2d ago
What did people expect? The US places sanctions on China with a clear goal to keep the Chinese economy down and people expect them just to accept it?
The US occupied a neighboring country for 20 years killing hundreds of thousands of people and had massive airforce bases right next to China. Last week Trump talked about retaking the airforce bases so it would be easier to bomb China. The Chinese are just going to accept it? The US just stole tiktok and China is just supposed to accept it?
erwgv3g34
2d ago
The thing about changing how US currency works is that most people have a really hard time getting used to new coins and bills. We tried to have a $2 bill but many people just couldn’t adjust to the new type of bill and it didn’t really catch on. Ditto with multiple attempts to have a $1 coin.
That's why my proposal only eliminates coins. It doesn't add any. It does add a new bill, but one I think is easier to understand than a $2 note.
It’s almost as if a large part of our population learns how coins and bills work at a young age, and that knowledge becomes fossilized and doesn’t change.
I've noticed that, too. I mean, it doesn't help that American coins refuse to have a large Arabic numeral indicating their worth like most coins of the world do, instead using arcane terms like "dime", or spelling out the numbers in English. But I see foreigners have the same confusion with bills, which should be easy to read and use. That tells me they just memorize money by rote and cannot adjust to the slightest changes in design or denominations, the way most algebra students become completely lost if you change X and Y to A and B.
Jiro
2d ago
They figured out that a few million people said "it looks just like a quarter" and the modern dollar coins are colored gold so they can't be mistaken for quarters. They are still the same size and weight so vending machines can handle them.
Literally who? I've never heard of this bitch. And I paid more attention in school than most.
Okay, one Google search later, I now know who she is. But she is definitely not well-known. If you want a female American aviator, why not Amelia Earhart? Everybody has heard about her.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
Reading Iris's about us page, my impression is this is likely a transgender person
Without even clicking the link, the name alone is enough of a tell.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
We've had a decade straight of the absolute worst of the Blue Tribe not only being loud, but actually being in charge. We didn't win by evaporative cooling, the evaporative cooling started when we started winning.
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
Then why does everybody and their dog freak out about transgender therapies being banned for lack of evidence, and start appealing to patient autonomy instead?
ArjinFerman
Tinfoil Gigachad
2d ago
One tangential thing this video made me realise again is how curiously the culture of the right and the left is drifting apart even in more subtle ways now. This is the nth time I notice that a seemingly quite popular right-wing youtuber talks in a way that is just viscerally offputting for me
On one hand I kinda wanted to agree with you after seeing that Klein vs. Coates interview and some panel with Yglesias on it, back to back, on the other hand I don't know if we want to start judging political subcultures by incredibly popular influencers... or do you want to answer some questions about Hassan Piker?
As a right-wing listener of this sort of narration, how does it feel to you?
I can't stand the Quartering even on a good day, but I was somewhat surprised by Lunduke being thrown in the same basket. Sure he's an outragemonger, but most of the time I'd read him as jolly rather than angry.
PreformancePertension
2d ago
One sort of odd thing is that the $2 bill is not actually that uncommon, objectively: https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircvolume.htm There are about half as many of them as the $5, and nobody would be especially surprised to see a $5. But people don't spend/circulate them for what I can only assume are reasons related to business cash drawers not having a dedicated slot, so you'll never get them as change.
anon_
2d ago
This amounts to viewpoint discrimination in therapy
I think we generally permit viewpoint discrimination in professional services. You can't claim that the viewpoint of "disease is caused by bad humors" and the viewpoint of "disease is caused by spiritual rot" and the viewpoint of "disease is caused by microbial or viral infection" have to be treated the same by medical licensure.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2d ago
And they do, often. Physical cash has its own niche though.
faul_sname
Fuck around once, find out once. Do it again, now it's science.
2d ago
Ah I see, this isn't a hypothetical. I would expect too many special interests (lawyers, doctors, accountants, etc) for the Supreme Court to take the free speech maximalist position but I hope to be wrong.
Reading Iris's about us page, my impression is this is likely a transgender person, both from the pic and the picture-perfect set of male hobbies, any one of which I know women who are into them, but put together is pretty strong evidence of not being a natal woman... and of course, "most of my recent focus has been on transgender rights, especially in the workplace." (Read: I came out as transgender recently and now that's my pet cause.)
Either that or the most masculine woman I have ever heard of in my entire life. So, in that connection, "trans woman in tech is extremely progressive and doesn't like transphobes," isn't exactly a wild outlier. They believe this is an existential fight for them; I'd probably call my enemies fascists too if I believed as they do. As it is, I just find their intensity of feeling a little silly, and so it's easy for me to shrug it off.
But really I have a more specific pronoun problem with the website. I find it hard to take the website of a professional seriously when all of the pronouns are "we", and it's obviously just one person's consultancy. Just say "I," please. Don't pretend to be plural. (Wait.......)
(EDIT: Also, there's a publication "Published under my deadname.")
Shrike
2d ago
It's not an either/or, the US can pursue onshoring as a permanent long-term solution while pursuing other avenues in the interim.
The USA isn't actually capable of replacing China's role in the productive economy in any timeframe that's actually relevant.
Replacing China's worldwide economic production isn't necessary; what the US ideally needs to be able to do is fulfill domestic national security needs. Nevertheless, it's worth noting that the US (re)opened a single rare earth mine in 2018 and in a couple of years it supplied 15% of worldwide production.
This means no more harddrives, no more lithium batteries etc.
First off, it does not. It means the Chinese are putting regulations on export. If you read the article it suggest the Chinese will likely ban exports to defense companies. So yes, I suspect the tech and defense industries will actually be able to source harddrives, lithium batteries, etc. for the next 5 - 10 years.
Why? Well, setting aside the fact that the US actually has at least some rare earth mining and refining capability in-country (and is currently, as I understand it, in the process of building more, so 7 - 10 years to have at least some replacement for Chinese goods is probably pessimistic even if you don't assume the US invokes national security to cut through red tape), I'd just remind you that Russia has been able to source actually embargoed items for its military from Western sources despite the US having a much better ability to deploy soft and hard power worldwide to sanction them than China does to sanction the US. If the Chinese move to cut US defense firms out of the loop, that
- Does not impact the tech sector, and
- Is no guarantee that the US won't just import them via shell companies.
Off topic, but estimates of early dog domestication are 15,000 to 40,000 years ago.
When you go back 300,000 years, we're looking at fossil evidence of the first modern humans.
But dogs are one of deadliest animals in the USA, not far behind wasps.
I stand corrected then. Or perhaps it's because TP has given me hemorrhoids and sitting is agony.
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