Well here is a chart showing the specifications and official standards numbers for A and B cells, the now-virtually extinct competitors to AA and C (I believe that some overseas batteries use A and B as internal components). Not to be confused with the large high-voltage radio A and B batteries that powered vacuum-tube radios which is what most searches online turn up; those got their names from circuit diagrams of the components of the radios that they powered.
Currency in circulation is shrinking in inflation adjusted terms.
This is not straightforward to interpret, since the increase in electronic payments domestically coexists with extensive demand for US bills abroad. Citizens of countries with unstable currencies use US dollars as a store of value and even a medium of exchange. Then of course there’s the underground economy.
This is a post-Covid phenomenon, particularly dramatic in 2023 and 2024.
And the most notable feature of that “currency in circulation” graph isn’t the overall decline; it’s what appears to be a considerable covid bump. Why would it have increased during the pandemic?
The Y axis on that graph is labeled “Percent Change from Year Ago”. That means the graph is showing not the amount of currency in circulation but the rate of change of the amount of currency in circulation. So between 2020 and 2024, the amount of currency in circulation has continued to increase, just at a lower rate of increase than in previous years. The graph doesn’t show any period when the amount of currency was actually decreasing, which would appear as the graph being below zero.
The graph is in nominal terms. Inflation is around 3% now and falling. So the inflation adjusted rate of currency growth is negative, meaning prices are growing faster than currency in circulation.
From today’s Redactle I learned that Francis Ford Coppola’s middle name comes from a combination of two sources - he was born in Henry Ford Hospital, and his father (a flautist) was involved in The Ford Sunday Evening Hour, a radio music show sponsored by that company.
My great-great-grandfather died as a result of just such an incident (fell asleep due to the intoxication and the horse got hit by a train). At least, so goes family legend. A vigilant officer patrolling the rural roads at night might have saved him!
Yea, here in Ohio, you can’t be charged with DUI if you’re riding a horse. But you can be charged with DUI if you’re driving a horse-drawn buggy. Some of the Amish have learned this the hard way.
(As a side note, it has always bugged me that, here in Ohio, you can be charged with a DUI while riding a bicycle.)
The generality of horses would just go home if they stopped receiving cues from the rider. And I imagine that the horse was used to taking his drunken rider home that way. Horses don’t know shit about trains.
