PS: Mr. Hail, I wrote about our collecting of the State quarters - '99 - '08. Will the mints in Philly and Denver start a series of gender quarters? That could go on for a while.

PS: "A bonus "flag" observation: In deep-blue areas, you can often find houses and other residences flying Ukraine flags alone, no US flag beside it. More often both are there. But some presence of Ukraine flags is often more visible than residences flying US flags alone."

Thank you, Mr. Hail! I've had too many posts in my head, and you just reminded me of what one short one was going to be. I hadn't even thought about the lack of an American flag alongside the Ukrainian one (in this case at least), but that is indeed the situation.

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The Alarmist, is that a real picture?

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The new flags that are clearly given more pride of place than the racist US flag, and would probably fly above the racist US flag if laws would allow it. But what percent of people could explain the following:

(1) What the various colors of symbols on that LGBTQXYT$IU%HTBOUWEE flag mean

(2) What the various symbols of the United States of America flag mean

I note it's been now sixty-some years since the U.S. flag was amended (adding extra stars for the addition of Hawaii and Alaska), but that "Alphabet People" flag has been amended considerably in recent memory. What is the circle? Do I want to know?

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A bonus "flag" observation: In deep-blue areas, you can often find houses and other residences flying Ukraine flags alone, no US flag beside it. More often both are there. But some presence of Ukraine flags is often more visible than residences flying US flags alone.

PS: Since I edited in the name, I figured I'd fix that year for you too, Alarmist.

(What? You didn't know there was an edit window? Oh, yeah, you'd have to log in or something... good luck with all that! Sorry, some day I'll get back into the software, maybe during a lull in the Stupid. Right before the other eyewall comes across ...)

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oops ... 2022

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A degenerate 2022 remake of 1936 Nuremberg ....

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWMgAZJXoAAKVoH.jpg:large

PS: Hey, Che, first of all, thanks for writing in! (I always picture you wearing a beret, maybe fashionable in Japan) just based on your handle.)

I assumed throughout your comment that the anecdotes are all from Japan. Is this correct? If it is, that means you know Japanese, which is impressive to me. If that wasn't all in Japan, let me know which paragraph starts discussing you experiences here (I assume).

Regarding the story with the pushy guy and that cashier, if it was really a small business, then doing what you did matters. For some big chains, and certain people of the darker persuasion, nobody cares, from my experience. They would rather nobody ever enter the store.

Anyway, I'm glad you're reading.

PS Hello Achmed.

I have been reading PS at times for some time.

In Japan, there is some social pressure to not pay by cash, or to not use a ticket or cash on public transport. Actually, multi-tickets are cheaper than a charge-card on many rural routes.

I always carry three sets of tickets to and from work, normal, off-peak, and weekend and holidays. It works out to be
much cheaper than a card.

I never obstruct when using tickets, except exactly twice, years ago, when I hadn't noticed the expiry dates.

OTOH, I could not count the number of times I have been blocked by card users who hadn't bothered checking their balance.

Three or so weeks ago, I was waiting at the cash register of a convenience shop, some arsehole with wheeled-luggage stood right behind me, literally breathing down my neck, which he continued as I was paying. The stupid bitch behind the counter decided to favour the pushy man, moved to the next cash register, and ignored the cash I'd placed in the tray.

I retrieved my cash, placed what I'd been going to buy on a shelf, and, since nobody else was waiting at the time, gave her a little lecture on how rude she had been.

PS: Mr. Hail, our editorial position is that, yes, pennies are pretty worthless, but I don't care whether they keep making them or not. I've been throwing them in the bushes or wherever even before any attempt to put some sort of Tubwoman on the face.

My boy just got into collecting the State quarters (then, for '09, 6 territories). I don't care if he ever finds Puerto Rico, but we went through a bunch of change, and we've got all but Montana and Texas of the States.

As for Andy Jackson v Aunt Jemima or whomever, Peak Stupidity definitely has an editorial position, spelled out a couple of years ago in these posts and answering your question directly:

"Tubmania and a cashless economy":

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1799

"More on the Tubwoman Twenty"

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1801

"Final Tubman-thumping post"

https://www.peakstupidity.com/index.php?post=1804

As you would expect, the late 1990s Chumbawamba is in that last post. "Tub Thumping!"

PS: BiADB; You get high prices, small items, and black people in one place and the security apparatus shows up. As they say "this is why we can't have nice things."

"YMCA Village People naval vessels in the Mediterranean." Hahaaa!

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Unrelated question: Will Bidenflation finally kill the ever-more-useless penny?

Does PEAK STUPIDITY take an editorial position on the removal of the one-cent piece from circulation on account of its uselessness and nusianceness?

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Narrative clash: Just as they planned to replace the villain Andrew Jackson with the saint Harriet Tubman, and just as they're finally getting morally virtuous individuals' visages like Maya Angelou on quarters (a large portion of the 2022-coined quarters have that Black poetess), they want to move away from cash.

PS Went to the Sack-N-Save and there were overnight markups on several items.
Of course it would be the stuff that I always buy and some stuff is off the menu because the price has almost tripled since JoJo Brandon and the turd term of hopey changey started.
Also they put up a subway style gate at each entrance and an alarm sounds if you try to go around.
No one wants the cashier jobs and a dozen lanes are empty while the self-checkout is packed and backed up.
Cash will be king for the duration but WWIII is ramping up with troops deployed to Poland and YMCA Village People naval vessels in the Mediterranean.
There won't be any vote on it in muh democracy.

PS: That could very well be a factor, Alarmist, but these big places also have ways of controlling things. There is not really anything resembling a cash register, as you know, I'm sure, but it's a computer. You've probably seen someone come up to take over or help out and he will scan his badge first. I imagine from this point he's responsible.

Perhaps I should add this into the post, as I just remembered, but the manager was telling the cashier something about "void it" a couple of times. I heard nothing more than that, though. That is more evidence. (Again, I don't consider this a bad thing in a place that won't take my damn legal US money!)

Yeah, on the farm, that makes sense.

I think it may be a matter of not necessarily not trusting the help, honesty wise (due to the controls they've got on 'em), but not trusting the help in a different way, that they are smart enough to quickly make change.

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I frequent a number of farms, all of which take cash, but one with a number of fer’ners (East Europeans, like Ukies) working the tills has started using a machine to take cash payments rather than letting the help handke it. I would imagine considerations like trusting the help is driving a lot of the oligarchs’ drive to discourage cash.