The United States is finally going to do away with pennies.

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01 Jun 2025, 1:21 am

Well I guess I better keep all the ones I have in case they become an expensive collector's item. Just like the benie babies

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01 Jun 2025, 1:38 am

Sweetleaf wrote:

Well I guess I better keep all the ones I have in case they become an expensive collector's item. Just like the benie babies

Beanie babies never did reach their expected potential. Some are worth a small fortune but it's mainly the rare ones.

Currency is always collectable though, when the US gets rid of pennies I assume after a while you'd make a good return on investment. Though you'd want to look for error coins or coins in the best condition. Maybe they could be a family heirloom? In a generations time, they could be worth a small fortune.

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01 Jun 2025, 9:19 am

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At this rate America will also have successfully adopted the metric system by 2400.

Why would we go any more metric than we are now? It's a terrible system for anything other than science and medicine. It makes nothing easier and uses inconvenient measures.

There's really and truly no actual benefit in switching to such an arbitrary system.

I've lived under the tyranny of the metric system and it's s really impractical system for most purposes.

Teen Titans Go explained this :lol:

Off-topic but I can't believe that show is still running to this day.

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01 Jun 2025, 9:26 am

jamie0.0 wrote:

Sweetleaf wrote:

Well I guess I better keep all the ones I have in case they become an expensive collector's item. Just like the benie babies

Meanwhile with LPS, resellers still overpriced them like they're bags of cocaine. Especially with the sought after "Main 5" molds even though they aren't rare.

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04 Jul 2025, 5:52 am

funeralxempire wrote:

At this rate America will also have successfully adopted the metric system by 2400.

I admit I am not very good with the metric system, as I've just never use it much. For some, it's downright scary like my mother is terrified of it.

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04 Jul 2025, 8:01 am

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I'm scared of non-metric units. To me they're as awkward as Roman numerals.

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04 Jul 2025, 9:51 am

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I'm scared of non-metric units. To me they're as awkward as Roman numerals.

They're really not though. I can't speak about systems other than US customary measure, but it's just so convenient for most things rather than being hobbled by arbitrary definitions and optimization for things that people have no reason to do with any regularity.

I know how both SI and US customary euro work and it's clear that SI usually sucks outside of the lab.

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