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Uncut Currency
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#112Steve Wozniak (the Apple cofounder) famously bought sheets of $2 bills, and had a printer perforate and gum them into pads. So he could literally tear off $2 bills, in front of people who might not even know it was real currency, to pay them. https://web.archive.org/web/20180311084811/http://archive.wo...
In today's stupefied America, it wouldn't be safe because the police will be called and the police escalate things into unnecessary violence. In the 60's through 80's it would've been fine, but not now.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
The US is so weird about its currency. The repeated attempts to get rid of the dollar bill (dollar coins, two-dollar bill, etc.) have all "failed". I put "failed" in quotes, because all it requires is for the government to do it. Take the one-dollar bills out of circulation, no discussion, done. At this point, take the two-dollar bills (no one will notice) and the penny as well.
A lot of people rely on the bills. You are completely out of touch with the people with your attempt to sabotage the printed currency.
Rely on what that couldn't be better served by $1 coins?
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
The video where he is showcasing it.. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDHTkowSkUM/
reading the comments gave me a headache...
Because they're doing what people do here so often - responding to the headline, not the 'article.' The headline and first sentence are outright lies. "...known for printing his own unique currency—$2 bills that he personally designs." Uh ... no? He doesn't print it, he didn't design it.
"He doesn’t actually print official U.S. currency, which would be illegal. Instead, [he] purchases uncut sheets of $2 bills from the U.S. Treasury..."
Well, yeah - that's why it makes sense. But you have to read past the outright fabrications to get to the truth of the matter.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Please cite some examples of how the U.S. treats disabilities as personal failings, compared to specific other countries.
Pre-existing conditions, which as far as I'm aware, is a US-only concept. I'm happy to be corrected for that, though.
The context “pre-existing conditions” is most commonly used in the USA used to be for underwriting health insurance, but since 2010, the Affordable Care Act prohibits health insurance businesses from using pre existing conditions to underwrite health insurance:
https://www.healthcare.gov/coverage/pre-existing-conditions/
Everyone is eligible to purchase health insurance, and pricing can only be based on
1) age (loosely, old people are heavily subsidized by young because highest premium is capped at 3x lowest premium)
2) tobacco use (tobacco users didn’t have the political power to prevent this habit from being an underwriting factor, as opposed to alcohol and sugar and excess carbohydrate users)
3) location
https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums/
Hence, health insurance premiums in the US are more akin to a tax than insurance.
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#11750 $1s for $86 - thats highway robbery
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#118Heck of a markup on these things. $2, eight-note sheet, that's $16 before shipping and whatever else. Add $20 ... because they're in demand? idk...
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#119Heck of a markup on these things. $2, eight-note sheet, that's $16 before shipping and whatever else. Add $20 ... because they're in demand? idk...
Printing money costs money too.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like they just put the comments with the most likes at the top... stands to reason that more likes = nicer comment.
I'm not sure. I would have assumed that this naive algorithm is what they had at first, and what gave us the cesspool?
I'm not convinced that the current trend of positivity is not caused by bots, but I wouldn't be surprised if the old system was just based on engagement. Meaning that upvotes and downvotes would both push the comment up. This is not intuitive, but would fit with what we've been seeing for the last decade or so.