This is a post I made Monday morning February tenth.
I was responding to this news:
Click Here
Donald Trump has ended the minting of the "wasteful" penny. The headline in the link-- click above-- speaks for itself. I wrote:
Are people going to be told that pennies are no longer legal tender, and if you
have jars of pennies that you have been saving for years, you will be told that
you cannot cash them in for the dollar per hundred pennies rate that America
has had since 1793? And the other coins?
One of the ways I have always saved money is by simply filling piggy banks with the change I receive in transactions. I have at least $1000 in coins of all values, which I have kept against any dire emergencies. Are nickels, dimes and quarters also going to be declared worthless to those of us who save money in the traditional way-- setting our small change aside?
The rate the coin-turn-in machines like the one at
my local bank remove when you use them is 15 percent. It looks to me like our
government-- or the Trump-Musk administration-- and come to think of it, the
billionaire cabal at the head of technological, computerized businesses, some
of whom are Trump appointees-- the ones pushing this artificial intelligence,
AI, a scourge upon humanity-- is pressuring Americans to operate in a cashless
society.
When I clicked "submit" on the MSN-run comments section, it was rejected. The
algorithm said that it was rejected because it did not comply with Community guidelines,
and invited me to "Please try another one."
Now, I have memorized long ago the four Community guidelines, and they are not
unreasonable at all. First, no profanity-- if one is not offended by cusswords,
there are plenty of real-news sources like Raw Story at which to comment on
stories.
Second, no explicit sex. That seems reasonable, people only looking for
gratification can go elsewhere.
Third, No harassing, bullying or threatening persons. Heck, I remember comments
boards on AOL around the turn of the century, and the degree of unmistakable
threatening, racial hate (hey, some racists appreciated having a fake username
so they could say whatever they wanted with no personal responsibility) on
those old boards where there really was freedom, because the process of engineering
social media for popular control was NOT nearly as developed as it is today.
And fourth, no stealing or tempting to steal from or defraud persons. Computer
fraud and scams have been a growth industry for many years. It is reasonable for
Microsoft to include a service by which such possible scams can be reported. On
one occasion a Microsoft agent engineered the end n unusual computer problem.
However, on another occasion just last year my computer was rendered unusable
by a scammer impersonating Microsoft saying the Trojan and other viruses my
computer contained were a threat, thus my machine was disabled. My
computer-repair place, UBreakitWefixit, verified that the puter contained no
viruses, told me that it was undoubtedly a scam, and made it work again, which
it has done to this day. Personally, I have been wary enough of scams to have
lost no money by one since the last time I contacted "technical support", in
2006.
The comment I made on this story does not remotely violate any of these stated guidelines
that I have explained. But it was rejected by Microsoft. So, I removed the
following:
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