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Nov. 14th, 2025 09:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
calimacWhat these all have in common is that anything that would have made me care about the new change ceased to be the case a long time ago.
1. I'm not going to miss the penny. Ever since the disappearance of the last penny gumball machines - which must have been over 30 years ago - the penny ceased to have any use in itself but only serves as a marker to accumulate larger sums.
That's true of all coins almost all the time now. Only with the rare parking meter that doesn't take cards, or the even rarer occasions when I need to use a laundromat, do I need a few quarters. I no longer regularly carry coins in my pocket. When I do get some, on the occasions I use cash at all, I just take them out when I get home. Self-service checkout at the supermarket takes coins, and I scoop them up to use there sometimes, because with multiple machines I'm not holding up anyone behind me as I get rid of the nuisances.
2. I'm not sorry about the closing of many outlets of Wendy's. Long ago I ate their burgers regularly, but I stopped after they changed the menu so that all the burgers have cheese on them. They're so used to doing that that they put the cheese on even if you say, "No cheese." A few instances of that and I gave up. Fortunately if I want a burger there's Five Guys, which is better than Wendy's was even at its best, and they follow customers' topping instructions meticulously.
3. I'm not upset about pop songs made with A.I. Electronic pop songs that sound as if they were made artificially have been a thing for decades now - remember Kraftwerk? - so why not actually do it?
1. I'm not going to miss the penny. Ever since the disappearance of the last penny gumball machines - which must have been over 30 years ago - the penny ceased to have any use in itself but only serves as a marker to accumulate larger sums.
That's true of all coins almost all the time now. Only with the rare parking meter that doesn't take cards, or the even rarer occasions when I need to use a laundromat, do I need a few quarters. I no longer regularly carry coins in my pocket. When I do get some, on the occasions I use cash at all, I just take them out when I get home. Self-service checkout at the supermarket takes coins, and I scoop them up to use there sometimes, because with multiple machines I'm not holding up anyone behind me as I get rid of the nuisances.
2. I'm not sorry about the closing of many outlets of Wendy's. Long ago I ate their burgers regularly, but I stopped after they changed the menu so that all the burgers have cheese on them. They're so used to doing that that they put the cheese on even if you say, "No cheese." A few instances of that and I gave up. Fortunately if I want a burger there's Five Guys, which is better than Wendy's was even at its best, and they follow customers' topping instructions meticulously.
3. I'm not upset about pop songs made with A.I. Electronic pop songs that sound as if they were made artificially have been a thing for decades now - remember Kraftwerk? - so why not actually do it?
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Date: 2025-11-14 05:47 pm (UTC)Wendy's - I still like them, but then I like cheese on my meat. And bacon. My Jewish great-grandmother is undoubtedly spinning in her grave, but there it is. But you are completely right, Five Guys is better on almost every front. Their peanut-oil-cooked fries knock it out of the park.
Kraftwerk. Well, sounding artifical was sort of their whole point; their "band concept," if you will, was "der mensch-maschine." But since you're at least somewhat familiar with them, you might enjoy this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwaxWoJPUC0