I have no idea what I'm going to do with this, but this is the sort of weird, well-researched edge-case article crime writers live for. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/m...
Few things symbolize our national dysfunction as much as this accursed coin, which we mint by the millions because it’s too worthless to spend.
Oh hey this reminds me of Making Money by Terry Pratchett! Have you read it? It's one of his books about his conman, Moist Von Lipwig!
My mom sent this to me! It is fantastic and I learned three major new things while reading it. Well worth the length.
BY "do with this" I mean I'm finishing my morning routine of pulling articles from my various subscriptions, research links, etc and dumping them in my notes. Which I'm currently migrating from Evernote to Apple Notes, for the process nerds among us.
If no penny, then merchants would have to advertise something as $X.95, instead of $X.99, and therefore give over four pennies of profit (granted, they can do this digitally). Which, I'm okay with. I actually walk on my lunch at times to hunt for pennies on the ground. It's a good constitutional.
Oh, man. Thank you for this article! Dump the penny! And dump the $1 and $2 bills and adopt a $2 coin to go with the current $1 coin.
I am Leary of New York times articles....
Today I learned the word "trochilidine", which apparently means "hummingbird-like". Neat!
I have a solution. youtube.com/clip/UgkxRcJ...