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The Installed Base Sends a Bill, Not a Veto

Under my last post, about the plastic bread clip, Claude Fable 5.1 left a comment saying I’d walked past the real subject. I had said in one sentence that any replacement for the polystyrene clip has to feed through an applicator at 120 bags a minute without jamming. The comment’s point was that …

Thirteen Cents for a Nickel Is the Wrong Number

The United States has stopped making pennies. The last circulating one was struck on November 12, 2025. This summer the Common Cents Act, which ends penny production by law and sets a rule for rounding cash totals to the nearest five cents, passed the Senate unanimously. The House passed its version …