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BooDooBoo posted:20c+5c=25c, which is 1 coin more. Euro coins average a fewer number of coins to make any amount of change because there are 8 different kinds of coins with a wider range of values available, including 2c and 50c coins, not because .20eu/.25usd shenanigans. With US coins, the average amount of coins to make change under a dollar is 4.6969... coins, if you were to switch the quarter to .20c coins it would be 5.0505... coins. Source: I just plugged every combination into excel and averaged them.
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I just want to use $1 and $2 and $5 coins for small purchases but I can’t because the USA hates coinage
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Dec 30, 2022 21:05
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I pay with my phone
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Dec 30, 2022 21:21
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I haven't used coins for anything in years aside from having some on hand in case of emergency parking meter needs and such, but when I actually used cash regularly, I would've preferred to get rid of pennies and nickels at the least.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:26
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I use cash to moderate stupid poo poo like eating out for lunch at work and the change I accumulate just goes into a piggy bank where it does exactly the same thing but for the vending machine. Also every once in a while I toss some random denomination of bill into my center console in case somehow I'm stuck somewhere with absolutely no access to electronic cash and I NEED gas or something. It doesn't happen often but earlier this year I got to the grocery store without my wallet and it actually saved me a trip home.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:35
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Jack B Nimble posted:earlier this year I got to the grocery store without my wallet and it actually saved me a trip home. The last time this happened to me, I found out you can use your phone to pay at Wegmans, so it's even more pointless.
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Dec 30, 2022 21:37
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As a member of the joyous service industry I love having cash and coinage but the penny at least needs to die. I also just don't like the texture and feel of a penny, some kinda mental quirk of mine. I will say I am fine with quarters but drat we don't need penny's.
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Dec 30, 2022 22:09
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I haven't worked retail for more than a decade but when I did I assumed that anyone who payed cash was either a drug dealer or a contractor (i.e. people who don't pay taxes). Probably didn't help that there were two different biker gangs with headquarters in the vicinity (Hell's Angels and Outlaws) so a decent portion of the customers in general were actually involved in organized crime.
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Dec 30, 2022 22:30
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only dealers and grandparents ever have $50 bills
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Dec 30, 2022 22:40
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I keep a couple of twenties in my phone's case, just in case. Same with the removable insert in my wallet that has my driver's license. The cashless society isn't here yet, and I prefer cash for smaller businesses because it saves them the credit card processing fees they otherwise would have to pay. There's been plenty of times when paying cash has gotten me preferential treatment or a sweet deal. I wouldn't discount it as a payment method just yet.
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Dec 30, 2022 22:56
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I'm a grumpy old curmudgeon so I still pay cash for most things that I'm buying in person that come to less than like forty or fifty bucks. A lot of stores have already started rounding to the nearest nickel when giving change, and I'm completely on board with this. Honestly they could safely go to the nearest dime or even the quarter.
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Dec 30, 2022 23:59
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the only times i, as a cashier, ever even think about the method a person is paying with are that if you pay with a shitload of singles i assume you probably work for tips, and if you're breaking a hundred on a two-dollar purchase i low-key resent you for cleaning out my till. but like i can't imagine being the kind of person to go "ah, this customer's paying cash, bet they tax-dodge" lol
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Dec 31, 2022 01:20
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The 9 Dash Line was the ROC's idea originally
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Australia used to have copper 1 and 2 cent coins but they were removed from circulation way back in '92, just 26 years after they'd been introduced during decimilazation when we stopped using pennies and florins and pounds back in '66. We also used to have $1 and $2 notes but they were replaced with shiny gold coins in 1984 and 1988.
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The smallest danish bill is 50dkk ~ 7.5usd tho I haven't seen one in years, mostly it's 100s but I basically only ever use cash when giving presents to kids in the family. Doing a mobile transfer is a bit boring for that
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I guess we should acknowledge we're comparing wildly different places in the world now. The US is a long ways away from cashless, other areas not so much. Most small places, mom and pop and food trucks etc round here don't accept cash anymore. The big public reasoning is no cash = no armed robbery. But it's probably more because there's way less ancillary costs from admin, automatic accounting and taxes, and one less physical thing to bother with
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Alien Nation. Alienation.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:I guess we should acknowledge we're comparing wildly different places in the world now. The US is a long ways away from cashless, other areas not so much. Most small places, mom and pop and food trucks etc round here don't accept cash anymore. The big public reasoning is no cash = no armed robbery. You’re way more likely to be losing cash to light-fingered staff than an armed robbery, so this is also a consideration.
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Torquemada posted:You’re way more likely to be losing cash to light-fingered staff than an armed robbery, so this is also a consideration. stealing from your employer is right and proper
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Toby Keith is not saying that he loved deeper and smoked sweet herb when he lived like he was dying It is, in fact, Tim McGraw
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Carthag Tuek posted:stealing from your employer is right and proper It's just stealing your wages back and at that point is it even theft?
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Henchman of Santa posted:This is like how I thought the nose on the Descendents logo was a mouth and the mouth was a neck. holy poo poo
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I feel like a real dumb dumb today because I only just realized that the color in those bright pink pickled onions is literally just the color from red onion skins soaking into the slices, helped along by the acid in vinegar. They're so uniformly vibrant and unnaturally bright that it never even occurred to me that it wasn't dye added to white onions for some traditional reason lost to cooking history.
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FWIW I add a few beets when I make pickled onions (or eggs) so it could be a combination of the two in some cases.
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Library cards expire. Well maybe only my local library card expires? I haven't been back to my local library since pre-COVID. Last night I got it into my head to see if they lend e-books (they do!), since I got an e-reader for Christmas. But evidently mine expired, cuz it's not showing up in the app! So guess I gotta make a trip down there. I want some free books!
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Silver Falcon posted:Library cards expire. Well maybe only my local library card expires? I haven't been back to my local library since pre-COVID. Last night I got it into my head to see if they lend e-books (they do!), since I got an e-reader for Christmas. But evidently mine expired, cuz it's not showing up in the app! So guess I gotta make a trip down there. I want some free books! you may be able to renew it on the website or with a phone call too.
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Captain Monkey posted:you may be able to renew it on the website or with a phone call too. The website only seemed to have the option to get a new card and I hate making phone calls. I'll just pop down there. It's okay. Worth it for free books!
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Pigeon holes are those tiny cubbies in old fashioned desks that you shove bills and letters and rolls of old papers in. To be "pigeonholed" is to be metaphorically stuck in some way in one of these holes. It's roughly like being a forgotten bill in a pile of papers in an inbox.
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doctorfrog posted:Pigeon holes are those tiny cubbies in old fashioned desks that you shove bills and letters and rolls of old papers in. To be "pigeonholed" is to be metaphorically stuck in some way in one of these holes. It's roughly like being a forgotten bill in a pile of papers in an inbox.
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A friend of mine posted what sounds like some questionable etymology the other day and it reminded me of this threadquote:Aaaaahhh my brain just clicked a thing! That to wage war is literally just funding a war by providing wages to soldiers! I'm fairly certain he's wrong
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Len posted:A friend of mine posted what sounds like some questionable etymology the other day and it reminded me of this thread Etymonline says it comes from a related, slightly older sense of "wage" meaning a bit more generally "to pledge" or "to agree" (e.g. to pledge payment, or agree to a bet (i.e. "wager")). The specific sense of "a pledge of salary for a regular job" came a bit later. So, to wage war originally meant simply to agree to go to war. Doesn't have anything to do with paying soldiers money.
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So, like, he was right, but in the wrong way
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DontMockMySmock posted:Etymonline says it comes from a related, slightly older sense of "wage" meaning a bit more generally "to pledge" or "to agree" (e.g. to pledge payment, or agree to a bet (i.e. "wager")). The specific sense of "a pledge of salary for a regular job" came a bit later. seeing a correct etymology from a solid source on the forums makes me happy. anyway, it's cognate with wed, which brings us to the Lockhorns comic
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Hirayuki posted:It started out as cubbies like that for literal pigeons. To pigeonhole something also means to categorize it, often unfairly (also somewhat like sticking it in a hole and forgetting about it). yes, one must imagine the pigeonholes in the desk being labeled with categories of different types of paperwork. once you put a piece of paperwork in a specific pigeonhole you're only going to see it again when you look through the contents of that specific location. if an author is pigeonholed as a horror writer, for instance, that person will only be looked for or considered when people want horror writings. an actor pigeonholed as playing dumb jocks will only be looked at or considered when people are looking for a dumb jock character. it's bad for people because they have other talents but those get ignored because nobody looks into the pigeonhole except to specifically seek the thing the pigeonhole is for
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Silver Falcon posted:Library cards expire. Well maybe only my local library card expires? I haven't been back to my local library since pre-COVID. Last night I got it into my head to see if they lend e-books (they do!), since I got an e-reader for Christmas. But evidently mine expired, cuz it's not showing up in the app! So guess I gotta make a trip down there. I want some free books! My wife uses the same library card she got when she was 7. Her name written on it in a big childish scrawl. The library's updated their system multiple times since the early 90s but barcodes never go out of fashion!
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Creature posted:My wife uses the same library card she got when she was 7. Her name written on it in a big childish scrawl. The library's updated their system multiple times since the early 90s but barcodes never go out of fashion! Might be a difference in library systems, then, I dunno.  I don't live in the same city where I got my first library card. Hell I don't live in the same state. (I grew up in Phoenix but now I live in Connecticut.) But I do remember getting my first card! Got it as soon as I could write my own name, down at the city library.  I was so proud. I still have it somewhere...Do kids even do that anymore? "You can write your own name now, good job! Time for your first library card!" In any case, the local library was only too happy to renew my card. They gave me some brochures and stuff too. So I'm set. Free books for me!
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Silver Falcon posted:But I do remember getting my first card! Got it as soon as I could write my own name, down at the city library. It would be, oh, 42 years old now?  I'm pretty sure I brought my now-teen son in for his card when he could handle his own name, too.That library has long since closed, but my current library just sends an email every few years saying it's time to stop by to make sure my card is still valid ("no rush"). So not being able to renew it online is, apparently, a thing. They want to make sure you're still in their service area and all that good stuff.
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My maybe 15-year old, very much used and worn out library card pretty much just disintegrated when I was taking it out of my wallet one time. Normally you need to pay something like 8€ for a new library card in Helsinki but the librarian took one look at the remains of my card and went ”…yeah we really only give the first library card out for free but I think you don’t need to pay for this one”
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