I have no idea about boats, but this seems like big mistakes happened.
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It would be interesting to know compare the carbon footprint of various foods with this new computation method. (The following picture uses the old one.)
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I almost read it is as no more penis…
It’s about time. I think a good rule of thumb is, when just about every store cares so little about a given denomination that they subtract it from a nice whole number to make the price look lower, it’s high time to stop bothering with a denomination so small that even businesses whose job is it to squeeze profits out of stuff don’t bother themselves about them. Honestly, I don’t think it would be overly inconvenient if the Dollar was the lowest denomination, though that’s probably going a bit too far
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Same time business people should stop with the old psychological trick of 9.99 instead of 10.
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Probably, it does feel slightly deceptive, though it’s so ubiquitous that I misdoubt it does much good
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Go do some shopping, you ll see it’s still very used
In the late 80s, I was driving home from a southern vacation and stopped in Clarksville, Virginia, a small town on the Roanoke River, to enquire about a private archeology collection that I had heard about. Amazingly, within a few minutes, I encountered the adult daughter of the collection’s owner. Her father was dead, but she had the collection and invited me to see it (this is how it was in the rural South almost 40 years ago). However, more amazing was that the cost of the individually metered parking was just 3 cents per hour. I wonder if they have replaced those meters yet?
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That what I said?
Wikipedia says
Belgium, Estonia, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Slovakia round prices to the nearest five cent (Swedish rounding) if paying by cash, while producing only a handful of those coins for collectors, rather than general circulation.
Seems reasonable. Those 1 cent and 2 cent coins are useless.
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I had posted about this expressing my disbelief of people financing fast food and stuff like that, but this is looking at the other side of the coin, which was also unexpected, to me. It turns out that Klarna isn’t even making money either and all that AI mumbo-jumbo didn’t help them be profitable.
That’s going to be “fun to watch” as it unfolds… though what will happen if Klarna goes under and some other, more predatory company, buys the debts and starts chasing after all those people? 
I remember paying 1 (guilder)cent (=0.45 euro-cent) in the mid-70s for a piece of chewing gum when I was around 6 years old, getting 10 cents pocket money per week.
In the Netherlands, guilder-cent coins were abolished in 1980 and in 2004 the 1 and 2 euro-cent coins were abolished.
You can still legally pay with those euro coins, but shops are allowed to round change to the nearest 5 cents, so they won’t give you 1 or 2 cent coins in change.
It seems that since around 2021 more countries in the Eurozone do this.
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And I have a pretty good idea which country will be the last to do so!
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Well, this is literally about “trying again” so, I think it belongs in this thread:
Though if these are the kinds of ideas they have:
As the Times described it, the reports “can read like anthropological studies of people from faraway places.” The effort also recommends Democrats buy advertisements in video games, among other things, the Times reported.
… then they should re-try again. Who wants an ad in a video game, for God’s sake? 
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Sports games are just one genre that comes to mind.
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Ads are also common in mobile gaming (Im not a fan, but apparently it’s tolerable to some demographic)
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