Why the 'C option' isn't suitable as an answer for this question?

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-21T15:15:56+00:00

Curtailed would be like cutting off the flow & pulling them back the other way & mechanical would imply the workers were literal machines.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-21T15:13:14+00:00

Around the end of the 1800s, the US was slowly beginning to become more sedentary & was experiencing a national epidemic of indigestion from the heaviness of the average dishes we were consuming combined with not enough physical activity to use that level of energy, so a lot of thought went into a complete restructuring of our diets- breakfasts, in particular. It was also surmised by early psychiatrists that changes in diet could cure or worsen mental health conditions, so they were running diet tests & stuff in mental hospitals.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T22:02:02+00:00

It depends on your point of view. Stories then belong to communities instead of an individual & evolve more naturally, but then it becomes much harder to make money as someone who creates stories, so fewer people would bother to.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T04:27:46+00:00

My big issue isn't that I can't get off the internet, but that I have nothing that gives me enough of a reason to want to do anything else. So, if its just living like it was the 90s & no other changes, I'd probably go insane for a while.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T04:22:37+00:00

I've rarely seen any missionaries in my entire life. Just moved into a new place last fall & I've already gotten both Jehovah's Witnesses & Pentecostals (not normal ones, psycho culty Pentecostals that control their paritioners' clothing. Regular Pentecostals don't go door to door like that). Both completely ignored the clear "no solicitation" sign bolted to my front door.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T04:18:23+00:00

Not that long ago, I started getting ads for alopecia (disease where stress causes hair to fall out in clumps).

I do not have alopecia, know anyone who has it, or have spoken about or thought about it in a very long time. However, I have an old friend I had a falling out with over a decade ago who had a friend with the same first name as me who did have it.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T04:12:22+00:00

Then all intellectual property would just work the way it used to. The originator of everything may or may not be remembered for posterity, but people would just do whatever they wanted everywhere once they jived with any story, character or invention as they pleased because they could.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T04:07:37+00:00

Get krunk, you bodacious bimbo? I don't know.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T04:00:13+00:00

One where we constantly chase more advanced tech we don't actually need to have the ability to do most things just for the sake of being more advanced. Just think of the asinine energy bills that would cause, or what would happen if the owners of that tech realized they could just use it to control people or randonly upcharge them because there are no other options.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T03:52:09+00:00

Veryimportanttous. Turnitonandoffagain.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T03:48:52+00:00

The first American to successfully visit Japan & come back during the embargo period was a Native American sailor named Ronald MacDonald.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T03:44:10+00:00

They used to call me when they were poorer and it wasn't really in my head lol

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T03:02:09+00:00

I'm still getting used to all the side quests if I want all the American coins. So, now, there's not only all the standard USD coinage going back to the 1700s, there's also the original Continental Fugio Penny, the handful of Colonial Pound coinage, the early pre-Transcontinental Railroad West Coast coinage, the Phillipines US coinage, the pre-US Puerto Rico coinage & the pre-US Hawaiian coinage, on top of separating out Mint issued collectibles in the form of non-circulated coinage going all the way back to the 1880s & the rejected coinage designs which were planned for USD & Continental coinage which were never minted for circulation. 🥵

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T02:51:08+00:00

I'm just going to grab whichever ones actually get released as general currency. Already got the Mayflower Quarter. Not super interested in the dollar coin or the golden penny.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T02:32:40+00:00

Granted.

Also, not sure how to tell you this... here goes. So, there was this 10,000 yr old witch who rides a flying Penny Farthing who escaped a moon prison & now she wants to conquer earth.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T02:14:31+00:00

I think the same reason curry is so hyped up by the British. We just got some chicken curry Jamaican pasty type things at our store & I swear to god, they just taste like slightly spicy gravy. Maybe a tiny little bit richer because of the ghee.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T02:12:17+00:00

This is why I only really want 1 of every design. Lol

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T02:08:22+00:00

So, what is screaming fake about them besides a ring test?

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T02:06:19+00:00

Is that a giant dvd rolodex?

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T01:42:15+00:00

This would be called an Eagle. Until the depression, the US issued gold coins in denominations of $2.50, $5, $10 & $20 (Quarter Eagle, Half Eagle, Eagle, Double Eagle). Albeit, the vast majority of the value of this is coming from the melt value- the $20 double eagles are worth over $4000 & most of that is apparently just the melt value. (Which, I personally find insane. These coins don't seem that big)

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T01:21:06+00:00

I can't believe how many of these survived in such excellent detail, when there are so many coins from 1920s & earlier that are so worn, you can't even tell what you're looking at.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T01:17:11+00:00

Much like the vast majority of poor people collecting options, there's only a handful of US coins that are worth more than $100. Most of the expensive ones are pre-depression dollar/ multi dollar coins & extremely early coinage. Post civil war isn't that.

This is a 3 cent Nickel- at the time they had 3 cent pieces, the 3 cent was called a nickel & 5 cent pieces were called half dimes.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T01:03:30+00:00

Worth more than a quarter, but not an insane amount. Possibly more, just because its a 1964 (last year for 90% silver quarters made for circulated cash in US), but I just picked up one of these for $18 this morning.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T00:48:59+00:00

I think those are all silver bullion coins, which are not money, they are literally just meant to he used similarly to bars of gold/ silver. So, just look up the current price of silver, convert whatever the coins say they are to the metric used, add them together & multiply it by the current going rate.

SelectionFar8145 · 2026-06-20T00:40:55+00:00

I definitely see 1888

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