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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by philistine on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:19PM (#31514037)
When I first visited the US, I was in a burger shop and complaining to my wife to the tune of: "Urgh, her come the pennies again. I'm so happy to be rid of them." The cashier was incredulous that Canada had gotten rid of pennies.

That something so mundane and annoying, pennies, is impossible to solve for the the US is eerily similar to Caligula playing music while his city burned.

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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by maxerickson on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:38PM (#31514182)
I mostly don't use cash and throw small coin change into a drawer or whatever. In the last 10 years I've probably dealt with like 300 pennies. The horror!

Like it would be fine if they did just disappear, but it's also a pretty "meh" issue day to day.

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