*Little Caesars Hot'n'Ready Tracker Alarm shrieking loudly, demonstrating that a bunch of DOD civilian employees will be suffering gastrointestinal distress later*

I think there's also a technological path dependency with striking versus casting- struck designs seemed to focus on the center more than the edges due to limited quality control and wear, which means center holes possibly require first moving to edge-centered designs...

A lot of it seems path dependent on Chinese currency standardizing on base metal alloys and Persian/Greek/Roman currency using precious metal currency as preferred and base metal alloys for the low-value coins only.

Get dunked on, Luna Titanium!! (No wonder Sunrise changed it to Gundarium later.)

Greek obols were originally thin rods of bronze, some with a corkscrew tip, before their coinage centered on struck round metal coins.

You kiss your mother with that mouth, man?

My mother does this without anything to distract her from the movie, and has since the early 2000s.

Money as a method of valuation for accounting itself develops well before portable cash, historically.

Gift economies as observed also tend to focus on specific, limited sectors that can be easily formalized and redistributed.

(Of course, another mechanism might well be that there are ripple effects going on with how many people go on to college and the shifts with the makeup of new primary and secondary school teachers, which worked their way through the system long-term...)

I think the biggest question here is why now? The slump predates the pandemic slightly, so although it would make sense for functionally illiterate children to have markedly worse ability to fake it after the pandemic education situation and a period without reinforcement... is that all it is?

Scientists caution that there's no safe amount of exposure to cheering for Ohio State, but one day a year is generally accepted as a tolerable risk

And I don't mean in a cleaned up way. This Ryoko Saeba should be just as much of a lecherous, horny dweeb as her original model.

An impressively bad one, too.