Deutschmarks are totally worthless since the Euro, but they have a sentimental value for me. Just mail them to my place!
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My friend read the headline over my shoulder and they were like, “Oh. My. God.” So I looked her in the eye and said, “They beat her to death.”
The sad part is that only after some minimum incredulity she believed me, because that’s how bad it’s gotten.
Here’s the problem: There is no accountability for cops, and not rectifying measures required when they make mistakes. They just wait to get sued. I’m not even 100% sure this cop should be fired, but only if his name is William and he must now accept the nickname “Two Dollar Bill” from colleagues for the rest of his professional career.
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And the perpetrator never pays. Just their shitty little cities. So they get shittier and the cops find more thin excuses to beat maim and kill.
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You know what? Fuck cops. They are by-and-large conservatives who believe in “personal responsibility”, except when it comes to anything they do. A guy pisses against a wall at 2:30AM on a Thursday where the only likely person to ever see it happen is a cop? Well he gets a lifetime on the sex offender list, thanks to that cop never taking personal responsibility. Cops do so much shit and are almost never held accountable.
As long as a cop says anything about “personal responsibility”, then they should be tried as anonymous people. NOT COPS. So that they are held to at least the same standards as regular civilians.
What the everloving FUCK ever happened to holding the guardians of civilization to a higher standard of conduct?
It’s like late-stage capitalism has seeped into local government.
Late stage capitalism. By which I mean “anything I can grab hold of is mine, forever. And any risk I take will be absorbed by everyone else around me.”
It’s an abusive person’s line “why did you make me do this? You forced me to hurt you. You never listen. You always fuck up. Nobody’s innocent. Everyone’s got a record. Maybe I’m just better than you. You’re worthless.”
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Throw in a few umlauts. It looks so much more German with dots sprinkled all over the place!
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They must have been pretty old notes, there’s been none later than 1994 that been withdrawn. And as Purplecat says, you can still exchange them.
The tricky thing in the UK is that there’s several Scottish banks which can issue valid notes, but they look nothing like the Bank of England currency. When you’re a busy bar-tender in the south of England (they’re more used to them up north) it can be difficult to know if the note you’ve just been handed is real or not.
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Mine are from when I moved back to the US in '89. Seems like yesterday.
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I’ve heard this part said a number of times in this thread, but I’d never heard it before (and can’t find much in the way to back it up), but:
When did $2 go out of print? They’re still listed as current currency, and while they’re not printed every year, they did a run in 2013-14…
Did I miss something?
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Green is for federal reserve notes
Silver is for silver notes
Yellow is for gold notes
Red is for United Notes…
http://www.friesian.com/notes.htm
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In Ethiopia, they were real suspicious of the new bills, e.g. “What the hell are these? I can’t do anything with them, no one else will know what they are.”
It used to be, when you visited Thomas Jefferson’s house at Monticello, the admission fee was $8 per person so if you gave them $10 you got a $2 bill in change. It was a while ago that I went and the price has gone up a lot. I don’t know if they still do it.
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If you think about it, the concept of paper money is a funny one. At least with coins you could have precious metals. Paper money only has value because a group of people agree it should have value. More so with stuff like bit coins.
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Hasn’t there been an issue with copper coins (not the more recent copper coated zinc ones) being worth more as copper than as coins?
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The copper in a real copper penny is worth more than a cent. The zinc is worth less than a cent, and it costs a lot to make a penny. We really should do away with them, but he powerful zinc lobby keeps the treasury making them. Seriously, that is the only reason I can find. People LITERALLY throw pennies away as trash.
John Oliver has a good run down:
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My numismatist friend told me the other day that it costs $0.05 to make a penny, and I believe that the U.S. Mint is one of the most profitable (if not the most) agencies in the USG.
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According to the John Oliver bit it was 1.7 cents.
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The EU tried to find the actual life-cycle costs for 1 and 2 Euro cent coins.
Based on the indications provided by 5 Member States, the non-weighted average acquisition price of these coins for the respective Treasuries represents around 150% of their face value, while the weighted average price is close to 300% (due to the rather high costs experienced by one large Member State).
(Issues related to the continued issuance of the 1 and 2 euro cent coins)
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There’s pedantry, and then there’s just plain being right.
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I hope I’m not the first to guess what colour skin the young lady in question was born into 
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Obvious US solution to the problem: Arm the children.
The customary response from gun-owners in the US to the question “Why guns” is “to resist unlawful oppression from the government”.
So give the girl a gun - lets see what happens.
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