The church crowd collectively shitting themselves over what to leave for a tip at brunch
Is this a thing for church people… Are they notorious bad tippers?
church people are notoriously bad everything
it’s why they have to go to church. because they can’t just be good people.
To quote an ex-friend who was also Christian, “A church isn’t a club of saints, its a hospital of sinners.”
Church crowd is pretty awful in the grocery industry, too. It was especially bad at my previous store, which was in a deeply evangelical town in Central Alberta. All would be quiet on Sunday until about noon. Then the floodgates would open to the most high-on-their-own-farts religious degenerates. Nobody talked down to you quite like a middle-aged woman in church clothes. And they would plug up all the aisles talking scripture and shit. Fuck, I hated that town.
The dime is currently worth less than the halfpenny was when it stopped being minted because it wasn’t useful to do so anymore.
This is wildly overdue, and honestly, probably not far enough.
Thanks CGP Grey. You keep moving them goalposts.
Just like how the federal minimum wage needs to be over 22 dollars, not just Fif-Teen bucks an hour </bernie>
…what?
CGP Grey is a youtuber who made a video years ago about stopping printing the penny. when trump announced ending printing the penny, he made basically the same video about stopping printing the nickel, and the dime.
Due to Inflation.
The same reason that Bernie sanders pushed for a $15/h minimum wage, which should itself be inflated from its 2016 amount to 22 bucks an hour.
While I think both of you are making reasonable arguments, I wanted to make fun of the situation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58SrtQNt4YE < kill nickels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5UT04p5f7U < Kill penniesSure, I mean, I’m also all for raising the minimum wage, as it’s wildly stagnated against inflation. You can be for that and for getting rid of the penny?
Idk, I just don’t understand how I’m “moving the goalposts”? Or perhaps I’ve just misunderstood the point of your comment.
I actually have seen that CGP Grey video before though, and it’s only gotten more relevant as time has gone on, lol. It doesn’t make it bad policy just because Trump is the one doing it.
Idk, I just don’t understand how I’m “moving the goalposts”? Or perhaps I’ve just misunderstood the point of your comment.
CGP Grey made the video for “get rid of the penny”. When they got rid of the penny, he made the video “get rid of the nickel, and the dime.” When the original goal as getting rid of the penny, once that was achieved, he moved the goalposts to get rid of the nickel.
Your statement is in line with CGP Grey’s (correct) viewpoint.
Pointing this out in a facetious manner is meant to be humorous.
Thought one: Did they bother to legislate how cash transactions will work without it?
Thought two: dollars should just become cents. Then we can go back to the days of “ten candies for a penny” that my grandma always talks about and maybe old people will see how unaffordable things really are
Thought one: Did they bother to legislate how cash transactions will work without it?
Congress did not. Apparently it causes issues in some states.
In some states and cities, it is illegal to round up a transaction to the nearest nickel or dime because doing so would run afoul of laws that are supposed to place cash customers and debit and credit card customers on an equal playing field when it comes to item costs. So, to avoid lawsuits, retailers are rounding down.
Per AP
It’s also silly because a bill was introduced in April to answer this question, but it’s just sitting around. You know how busy Congress is nowadays. (Also similar bills have come up in the past, but also just sat around and nothing became of them.)
If you’ll pardon my insanity for a moment, there is something to be said for the Executive branch making a decision that the Legislative branch refused to make. The Legislative have ceded so much power to the Executive that they should be embarrassed. I wish this was front page news about political overreach. Instead it’s just, “Yeah, everyone knows Congress can’t do shit.”
We’re long overdue for an Amendment to bar one branch from ceding its power to another. Biggest catch to that is that it may reinforce the recent ruling on deference. Someone like Trump writing detailed regulations is about as scary as Congress doing it.
Personally I kinda wish that power that Congress refuses to wield shouldn’t be pushable to the executive but instead decays back to the states. Basically cedeing power to the presidency should be effectively impossible, but power decaying back to the states should be the norm.
Basically cedeing power to the presidency should be effectively impossible, but power decaying back to the states should be the norm.
I can’t wait for the yanks to rub in my face that “AcKsHuAlLy, MeDiCaL mEtH iS lEgAl In WeSt ViRgInIa” while ignoring that women initiating divorce is illegal in idaho.
EDIT: maybe I fucked it up, but it’s already intolerable when shitheads brag about “The USA has legal weed” when it’s in certain states with many restrictions, and ignore all the shit that other states ban, like abortion. Or, permit, like child marriage.
Honestly this is at least one of my reasons for trying to reignite regional nationalism. Some states are backwards shitholes deserving of a harrowing while others are semi functional if flawed modern states.
Honestly the entire districting system should be dropped in favor of statewide party list voting.
Gerrymandering has ensured that every district is like a dick shaped blob on every map and your local rep might live further from you than the nearest 3 other reps.
Apparently it causes issues in some states.
… issues that would not be rendered moot by the supremacy clause of the Constitution!? If Congress passes a law saying that because the federal currency will no longer include a $0.01 denomination, all cash transactions must be (either rounded to the nearest $0.05, or must have change values in multiples of $0.05), states are obliged to follow this law. As it is, the mint will just stop making a kind of money, leaving states in the lurch, and potentially inviting lawsuits from state attorneys general.
Yes, they would be rendered moot IF (and hopefully when) Congress passes a law.
The last penny was minted today. Companies have already begun to struggle with a lack of pennies.
This isn’t a problem that will happen if Congress does nothing. This is a problem that is happening because Congress did nothing.
Exactly! TBH, I’m surprised. The GOP’s God King said, “make it so,” and they haven’t done his bidding. The one time their spineless adherence to anything Trump wants could’ve actually been popular, and we get nothing. An astonishing level of incompetence! For shits and giggles, a Democrat should push for the bill to be taken up, just to watch the GOP leadership shoot it down because they can’t take credit for it. An official “not like that.”
That’s the crazy part, they did, back in April!
Two US House members, one Democrat and one Republican, and two US Senators, one Democrat and one Republican introduced the bill.
The bill isn’t even that long, https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/3074/text
That’s an easy bipartisan win. I’m not against having a few committee’s review it and getting everything in order… But six plus months for something this simple?!
The “must pass” legislation gets slapped together over a weekend and everyone complains that they don’t get time to read it. They post all over social media a towering bill full of last minute margin changes.
But no one has taken time to move forward a two page pamphlet in six months?
It’s truly mind boggling.
Thought one: Did they bother to legislate how cash transactions will work without it?
Funnily enough, Canada has not had pennies for a while. (Uh, it’s funny because you’re on lemmy.ca)
In Canada, cash transactions round to the nearest nickel (so $1.03 becomes $1.05, and $1.02 becomes $1.00).
Yes, I know this. :)
That’s what prompted my question. That was legislated so that stores couldn’t pick their own way of doing it.
Ah, great point!
Great, now we can blame millennials for killing the penny. /s
How will we pay each other for our thoughts?
When you want to give one fuck, give 'em a buck.
A buck for a fuck.
Either a nickel or a bean
Welp, so much for adding to my pressed-penny collection
Another thing the president is not supposed to be able to do unilaterally.
Just another sign of rampant inflation.
Ehh we’ve been long overdue for this, tbh
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just use the sink ffs
I can smell that thumbnail. I can smell her good.
Now will they have pressed nickel machines
Those press machines have used brass blanks for over a decade. Zinc pennies don’t press well.
I thought they got rid of the penny like four years ago
