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I don’t remember for certain and I’m not taking the time to look it up, but I think there are some legal restrictions as well? I’m guessing that is included in your Impetus paragraphs, since it would require congressional direction to change things.

The Treasury or whoever has actually redesigned the bills quite a bit in my lifetime and they’re more colorful than they used to be, but I think they’ve done what they can while sticking within legal parameters. Given how much some people refer to other nations’ currencies as “Monopoly Money” despite some obvious benefits I’m not holding my breath for significant changes for a while yet.

I’m glad we’re finally getting rid of the penny at least. I used to be a proponent of the $1 coin, but having spent some time in Canada and Europe I actually find $/€/£ coins annoying and heavy in actual practice.

The top two:

• Hurricane Fran, which actually made landfall 30 years ago today. Our house at the time was about 120 miles (200 km) inland, but the storm was moving fast and still had a lot of power even that far in. Combined with the ground already being saturated with days of rain before the storm, the state lost millions of trees. We had my grandmother come stay with us because she had a large tree right next to her house. We lost power that night around 9:30 or 10. Maybe around 2 or 3 AM things started getting really bad. At some point my dad thought he heard a different sound in the wind and we all got in an interior closet on the ground floor. Eventually it sounded better but I didn’t go back to sleep until daylight. Our house didn’t have any damage but there was a thick line of trees in the woods behind our house that were all knocked down, kind of spiraling along the line. Never got the weather service to verify if that was a tornado because there was so much damage everywhere. Surprisingly my grandmother’s house was fine and she had electricity back the day after the storm, so we all went to stay with her except for my dad, who kept staying at our house to keep an eye on it. It took us a week to get power back at our house.
• When I was 5 an F4 tornado came about a mile from our house. It actually crossed my cousin’s street a quarter mile from their house. Other than a young tree that was permanently bent sideways our house was fine, but 4 people were killed. We used to drive down a street where a couple people died pretty regularly, but once my parents realized it was scaring me they had to take a longer route. All that was left there were foundations and staircases. If a house doesn’t have a basement, the closet under the stairs is my next choice for tornado shelter.

Shot on film? You might also consider sharing to !analog@lemmy.world

The shock is more that something he’s heavily invested in is as privacy-friendly as it appears, instead of immediately sending everything to AWS servers

Happy Anniversary!

I was skimming through the post at first and initially misunderstood your plans with your wife

Maybe some of the really old Chevy EVs or first generation Nissan Leafs? But Chevy was fined by the US government for their privacy abuses in recent years.

Unintuitively, the forthcoming Slate pickup will have no infotainment system—not even speakers—and minimal telemetry, potentially one of the most privacy-friendly new cars. You’re basically expected to bring your own devices. The surprise part of that is Slate is getting a lot of its financial backing from Jeff Bezos. This will be one of the least-expensive EVs in the US when it launches, supposedly at the end of the year.

Drives us crazy when we go visit my wife’s family in France

They’ve been failing for years. Turns out the average person doesn’t need a new action camera all that often.

Maybe the missing man formation?

I would assume they’re flying a chartered widebody in an all-first or all-business class configuration (international business class being nicer than domestic first class). I’ll certainly be interested in the outcome!

Do you not have screens on your windows?

It has also previously told us that it uses sophisticated AI systems to detect and combat fraud. So why did its AI not notice that the image on our listing was one of the world's most famous buildings and appears in thousands of photos across the web?

The “sophisticated AI” failed at its job? I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.