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  • Uh… I think wires are crossed here.

    I’m talking about coins minted by the US mint. I’m not talking about every chudware coin thats churned out for “collectable” markets by private non-currency coin shaped item makers

    They’ve always been called memorial coins. They memorialize an event. Like, in 1921 Alabama had a Memorial half dollar celebrating its 100 years as a state, and it had the first and the current living governor at the time on the coin together, and while technically a currency coin, it was also a memorial coin for the 100 years so thats why it had a still living person on it.









  • This is also why the powers that be drug their heels and took 10 years to implement the 15 dollar minimum wage.

    because they knew that by the time they did, it would solve nothing due to inflation and cost of living rises.

    So they got the brownie points for passing it, but still have the desperate, manipulable base thats one bad month away from losing everything.

    and they’d also get to go “God, we just gave you the 15 dollar minimum wage, and now you want 25? Stop being greedy and live within your means!”








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    I wasnt a professional, Just the “computer guy”… and its been like 25+ years, but if I recall correctly they didnt hire me to reformat it specifically, I believe it was windows 98, and memory serves it hadnt been reformatted in years, and i think they slapped some new PCI cards into it without removing the software for the old ones? I dont remember the details, but basically told them that a clean start would have a 98% chance of fixing their system, and if it didnt… I’d still need the clean start to figure out what was wrong where.

    They were over my shoulder the entire time, wouldnt have let me if i wanted to (Edit, and I wouldnt have wanted to, because I hate going through peoples stuff even with permission)… and quite frankly I just wanted to get out of there asap cause I didnt like the attitude i got for being there trying to help them.

    I did run into them again at a later time, where they were sad to have lost their stuff, but said the computer was running faster than ever, not realizing how much the bullshit had been dragging them down.


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    I was once hired to fix a computer. I told them that the fix would just be a simple reformat, and asked if they wanted me to back up any files.

    they said no, they had backed everything up already. I asked if they wanted to take one last look through the system to make sure. They got huffy and told me to just take care of it already.

    So I did.

    then they asked me to restore their files.

    it was a CD-R of hundreds of desktop links to programs, and even photos. no actual data. just links.

    They were not happy when I explained it to them.

    i can totally believe the story in Op’s picture to be one that actually happened.