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Coreidanreply
lemmy.world

True but it’s also just a piece of plastic in a special shape.

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lemmy.world

It's a piece of plastic in a special shape that was used as a piss bottle in an old folks home.

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lemmy.world

Plastic isn't necessarily perfect, it can e.g. be affected by substances like acids. I'd be incredibly surprised if there wasn't a material difference between a "virgin" piss bottle and a 10-year one.

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Coreidanreply
lemmy.world

I don’t think someone eating food from a piss jug cares about material differences in the plastic.

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If those material differences cause a layer of piss to stick to the plastic which isn't easily cleanable and dissolves into food over time, they're gonna care about them.

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ABCDEreply
lemmy.world

Me either, nor how you pay 0.25 cents for something.

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anuwubisreply
discuss.tchncs.de

there's a handy round section of a cylinder made out of a silvery metal, with embossed motives on both sides, that carry this exact value, you can use it to trade for an item deemed similarly priced

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Björnreply
swg-empire.de

Huh, I thought the lowest denomination was 1.00 Cents.

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anuwubisreply
discuss.tchncs.de

it is, i just found out my reading skill isn't as good as i thought ^^'

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Usernamereply
feddit.org

I'm not from the US, but isn't the smallest coin a 1-cent coin?

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Big government doesn't want you to know this, but we have a 0.69420 cent coin as well

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Okay, so a few things:

embossed motives

What reasons could these possibly be?

an item deemed similarly priced

Is this magical 0.25c coin priced, or does it simply have a value on it?

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The closest you can get is .2 or .3 cents. It's called a mill. Gas stations use it all the time.

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I know it's going to last a long time because the old lady said they used it everyday and it still looks practically new

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Omigod.

My SO was hospitalized 18 months ago and had to use one of those. He also has prostate hypertrophy so urinates slowly as it is, and also was in diabetic ketoacidosis so was on IV fluids and insulin, and basically he spent a lot of time holding his dick in a jug really having to pee but taking forever.

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