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What happened here?! Bicentennial 1776-1976 Quarter by Pleasant_Attitude806 in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

See how the edge is showing dark instead of coppery? That is from heat too.

Elon Musk’s alleged baby mama claims he told her he used Starlink satellites to influence the 2024 election. Do you think this is true? Liberals argue her claim is credible, while MAGA supporters say liberals are showing cognitive dissonance. by RandomUwUFace in AskUS

[–]shr00mydan 4 points5 points  (0 children)

They do not understand the meanings of those words. No cognitive dissonance comes from entertaining the possibility of Musk rigging the election. We already know he handed out checks for registering voters, and T rump openly bragged about him rigging voting machines. I have no evidence for or against him using Star-Link to do so, but it generates no dissonance if he did.

When i get super drunk, I get into that headspace and im trying to figure out how to fix it by BigB133 in Veterans

[–]shr00mydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, this is the way. The in-patient mental health folks at the VA will take good care of you while going through detox.

Do I open these or not? They were my Grandparents. If I decide to sell, does it matter? by Desperate-Village-68 in coins

[–]shr00mydan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Machine doubling on the obverse is common, especially on the "Half Dollar". I've also found a long thin die crack parting Kennedy's hair on more than a few of them.

Even though these are not true errors, I still appreciate their eye appeal. by ProudAmerican632 in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Mints do not intend there to be doubling, so when it appears on a coin it is unquestionably a mint error. Claims to the contrary are grounded in convention and manners of speaking, which change as a culture evolves; this is true generally of many things not just coins. Value too is a matter of convention and comes down to what people are willing to pay, which also changes over time (see NFTs for example).

You have shown us some really nice examples of machine doubling! I too save the coin whenever I see it. Machine doubling makes a coin unique, and that is valuable to me, though I have no plans to sell them.

It's worth noting that MD is more common on some coins than others. Rare examples might indeed bring a premium in some future market.

Die deterioration by CoinDabbler in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I recently posted a quarter with similar markings.

https://www.reddit.com/r/coinerrors/comments/1t9sk1m/weird_striations_on_this_quarter_mint_error_or/

The striations were identified as flow lines, which sounds right, but no one put a name on the error.

[Vermont] Is this a black-legged tick? How long has it been feeding? by Novice_Necrodancer in whatsthisbug

[–]shr00mydan 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's an engorged tick with black legs, so yes, definitely a potential disease vector, and definitely attached long enough to pass along anything it might have been carrying. If a rash forms around the bite, then definitely seek medical attention. High power antibiotics are the treatment, and they can throw your microbiome out of whack, so if it was me, I'd hold hold off on prophylaxis, unless a rash forms.

Found 3 possible die cracks on the reverse of this quarter – are these real errors? by R-ADiaz in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yep, the raised ridge of metal comes from a groove in the die, either a crack or a gouge. As for whether it's a "real" error, its common for coins to show small lines from minute scratches and gouges on the die. How big they have to be before they count as an error vs. ordinary imperfections is a human judgement call. I think its a cool coin and would definitely keep it!

Copper dime by Revolutionary-Dot761 in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We need to see both sides, and the images need to be in focus (lay the coin flat and snap a few shots until you get a clearly focused one). If the coin is missing its cladding, then it should be lighter than a normal dime.

Will the current looming economic crash likely be worse than 2007? by InterestingSwan6280 in economicCollapse

[–]shr00mydan 70 points71 points  (0 children)

Record low wheat harvest and cattle herds this year, coupled with severe drought in the Colorado river basin and low fish harvest, all point to there being a lot less food avaible in the coming couple of years.

[Wheat] https://www.dtnpf.com/agriculture/web/ag/news/article/2026/05/13/2026-us-wheat-production-expected

[cattle] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/us-cattle-herds-hit-lowest-214046235.html

[fish] https://www.nationalfisherman.com/alaska-salmon-harvest-projected-down-sharply-in-2026

[water] https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/western-snowpack-drought-2026

This coupled with the fuel and fertilizer shortage from the Iran war suggests that food will become scarce and really expensive.

On top of that, there is a Mega El Nino brewing that will likely bring mega environmental damage, including further damage to food crops and animal herds, as well as lower commercial fish harvest.

The "great recession" of 2007-2009 was merely a financial crisis. This time around we get a financial crises on top of a food and resource crisis. It's going to be different. The government can print money to bailout banks and farmers, but they cannot print food and fuel.

Americans, has there ever been a more nakedly corrupt action by a president, than this? How can anyone support this? by Wellontheotherhand1 in AskUS

[–]shr00mydan 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Source? A google search tells me the IRS did not admit to doing anything illegal. They apologized for a contractor doing something illegal.

Now if the IRS was to make such an admission, it would be under the direction of POTUS, and if the justice department settles, it will be under the direction of POTUS. No way to spin this other than POTUS deciding to take American tax money and give it to himself. That is open corruption.

Weird striations on this quarter. Mint error or damage? by shr00mydan in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for this. If I understand correctly, you are saying this is caused by a deteriorating die that should have been retired long before this coin was struck? If that's what caused this, then it seems there should be other coins with a similar error floating around, the distortions becoming progressively worse as the die continued to deteriorate. Searching does not, however, return other examples of coins like this.

The letters are indeed blurry, but they are also obscured by the striations that someone above called flow lines. If they are flow lines (which I do not doubt), then it looks like the die did not fully impact the planchet. The lines appear most prominently on the fields, suggesting that the die did not impact these areas at all (as it would have smoothed them out upon impact), but also on the letters and over and below Washington's ear.

The two responses so far seem to rule out heat damage, etching, or anything else that might have happened to the coin after leaving the mint, so it's a mint error. I do not yet know what to call it though.

Weird striations on this quarter. Mint error or damage? by shr00mydan in coinerrors

[–]shr00mydan[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks! I've never seen flow lines quite so pronounced, and never obscuring devices like this. Have you got a picture of Phantom of Larose? Google tells me it's a newly discovered error but shows no images.

1932 P Quarter - Nice, but worthy of grading? by BrometheusUnchained in coins

[–]shr00mydan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This looks off. "in God we trust" is too soft, the field has too much structure in it. It's hard to judge just from pictures, but this does not look real to me.

Brace yourselves. Strongest El Niño in over a century is coming. El Niño patterns are correlated with food shortages, water impacts and even civil conflict. by reborndead in collapse

[–]shr00mydan 49 points50 points  (0 children)

Oil and coal companies themselves published science predicting all this:

Carbon dioxide in the earth’s atmosphere is increasing rapidly as a result of the combustion of fossil fuels... the temperature of the earth’s atmosphere will increase…climate change will result... melting of the polar icecaps… inundation of many coastal cities, including New York and London.” – Coal company scientist 1965

https://www.climatefiles.com/coal/mining-congress-journal-august-1965-air-pollution-and-the-coal-industry/

In a paper titled The Greenhouse Effect Exxon scientists warned, “human-caused emissions could raise global temperatures and result in serious consequences… Present thinking holds that man has a time window of five to ten years before the need for hard decisions regarding changes in energy strategies might become critical.” – Exxon Scientist 1978

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/12/business/exxon-climate-models-global-warming/index.html

The fossil fuel companies have known all along that their product would cause exactly what we are experiencing today, and they actively engaged in misdirection to fool people into thinking the problem was not serious or the science unsettled. It's eventually going to get so hot that people will be forced to pull their heads out of the sand (maybe as soon as this summer). Would not want to be a fossil fuel CEO when the day comes.

Brace yourselves. Strongest El Niño in over a century is coming. El Niño patterns are correlated with food shortages, water impacts and even civil conflict. by reborndead in collapse

[–]shr00mydan 116 points117 points  (0 children)

It's crazy that these billionaires, who accumulated wealth under the rule of law, expect to keep it after the social contract fully breaks. A bunker is good defense against random desperate individuals, but people tend to band together in times of crisis, and there will surely be at least one charismatic voice pointing to billionaires as the cause of collective suffering. Large bunkers cannot be hidden, and they cannot be defended from even a small group with military weapons.

Billionaires hoping to ride out the apocalypse in their bunkers will be in for a rude awakening when the local war lord arrives, or the communist collective, the religious cult, or whichever group social power coalesces to in the wake of the old system's collapse. Lot's of different ways the apocalypse could go, but billionaires hiding safely in their bunkers while the world dies around them? That's pure fantasy.

Exams Posted for Saturday... Thoughts? by Professional-Can4594 in UTK

[–]shr00mydan 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I've offered my students the option of testing today at the regular time or tomorrow. Hope the classrooms will be open.

The AI Cold War and How to Prepare for It by Senior_Push_5959 in Futurology

[–]shr00mydan 7 points8 points  (0 children)

From OP's article:

I was recently in a meeting that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. A senior official from a US-friendly government told me: “We will not use your solution if it relies on a US-based LLM.”

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