This is why I gotta write down all my restaurant feelings. Otherwise five years later Helena will not remember.

Yeah and their macros or whatever

SOON, last year was Y2K, and the cycles seem to be speeding up

I mean, there's a gazillion articles about Why Pennies Shouldn't Exist, but I did enjoy this one. www.nytimes.com/2024/09/01/m...

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny

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.

owing to their ferocious commitment to Midwestern friendliness, he said, a disproportionate number of Minnesotan bank locations still handle coins for free.)" "We are entitled to pennies because they exist. But imagine a world where they didn’t. Imagine a world where it was Canada."

America Must Free Itself from the Tyranny of the Penny

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.

brb sharing this everywhere

i like that there are two of them, and the one that is meant to be the subtle, plainclothes one is way more obvious

Wimmdy report

Bf will do this (as a meal substitute). It's so much though

I also feel like "LJ house style" was more different between different fandoms back in the day -- LJ era anime and western media fic were more different from each other than they are now