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Cake day: August 5th, 2023

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  • There’s just too much stuff that runs on quarters […] too much cultural staying power.

    “Because that’s the way it is” is never a good reason not to do something new.
    It’s always the case that things don’t change. Until they suddenly and unexpectedly do. Then in hind sight it seems obvious they should have changed long earlier.

    US dollar circulates widely in foreign countries […] There, US coinage is basically non-existent

    There’s no real reason coins couldn’t circulate in foreign markets. They don’t because the value to weight ratio is worse for shipping. But if the coin value went up to a dollar, and the dollar note wasn’t an option anymore, foreign markets would adapt just fine. Especially since the coins would circulate for decades longer.











  • TV news is dying anyway.
    Do you really know anyone under the age of 50 who gets their news from television?

    This is a nightmare. A very real step toward a fascist authoritarian dictatorship. Not not because of TV news. Because of what might happen to all other news outlets. He’s has the biggest social platforms bowing to him already.

    That’s why it needs to he stopped. Not because of loosing a medium that’s dying anyway. But because he wants to control all news media. We can’t let him have any.



  • Good idea or not is debatable.
    But at the SCOTUS level it’s just about weather or not the government has the power to decide if and how a Corp can operate in the US. Which it obviously does, since Corporations aren’t people and have no rights.

    Given the pro Corp majority on the court, this decision is a little surprising to me. I’d be shocked if they made the same call for a domestically owned Corp.