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Re: Uncut Currency

#121
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You can sign up to be on the waiting list for a lucky Panda $2 note, with a nice red envelope and a serial number starting with '888'. I mean, it's a nice gesture, and maybe annoying the heck out of certain Presidents. The price for this $2 note + red envelope is >$10.

$10 is taking advantage.

Yes, and? Fools and their money, etc. No one is forcing people to pay these rates. If someone wants to buy one that's their business.

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#122

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It's not just me / the music videos I look up then, is it? I can't help but wonder if it's some kind of YT hive mind, bots, or Google's own algorithms pushing those comments to the top.

Seems like they just put the comments with the most likes at the top... stands to reason that more likes = nicer comment.

First part of your comment is right, but your reasoning is wrong. A couple years ago, YouTube changed the visibility of negative comments, such that positive comments are prioritized (can’t like a comment if you don’t even see it).

This was also around the time they removed the thumbs up/down count.

This was to prevent creator burnout; imagine if every video you put out had some snarky diss against you in the comments.

Re: Uncut Currency

#123

TIL there are $100,000 bills and they are illegal to possess https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_one-hundred-th...

Wikipedia claims that they are illegal to possess, but their source for that claim is an Investopedia article that doesn’t cite any law or other source. I’m skeptical.

Re: Uncut Currency

#124
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It's instagram. Slight tangent: the YouTube comments used to be famous for being a vile cesspit. Then Google changed something, and now they are full of positivity. Often too full.

And for songs, often (fake?) testimonies to people's emotional attachments to the song.

moji moji moji who still bangin this in 2022? moji moji

Re: Uncut Currency

#125

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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?

Coins are simply worse than bills. They're too thick for something you'd be keeping mainly in your wallet or pocket.

Re: Uncut Currency

#126
post #69

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reading the comments gave me a headache...

It's instagram. Slight tangent: the YouTube comments used to be famous for being a vile cesspit. Then Google changed something, and now they are full of positivity. Often too full.

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Re: Uncut Currency

#127
post #69

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reading the comments gave me a headache...

It's instagram. Slight tangent: the YouTube comments used to be famous for being a vile cesspit. Then Google changed something, and now they are full of positivity. Often too full.

Idk YouTube comments are still a cesspit, but now there are lobotomized bots saying nice things.

Re: Uncut Currency

#128

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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 th…

You don't have to. You could be a sane, intelligent person and not look at Instagram at all.

Re: Uncut Currency

#129
post #11

Steve 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.

Steve Wozniak is white and soft looking.

Re: Uncut Currency

#130

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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?

What in the world would a $1 coin be better than a bill for? Making a blackjack to ease the handover of $1 bills?
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