• JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social
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        9 days ago

        If you grew up in the States, you would have learned who Franklin was somewhere in the 5th to 8th grade public schooling range, so I guess neither of those things happened in your case?

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    Huh. I hadn’t really thought that someone would think that being on currency meant that someone is a President until now. I guess the other common current bills do.

    Not all coins and bills have had Presidents.

    The current dollar coin, which isn’t terribly commonly used, though I do occasionally get one in change, and mostly from subways, has Liberty:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Silver_Eagle

    There have been other figures in the past, like Susan B. Anthony.

    The hundred dollar bill, which some stores don’t accept, obnoxiously enough, but my most-used ATM likes to hand out, has Hamilton, who also wasn’t a President.

    Past printed bill designs remain valid currency in the US, and bills like the $10,000 bill don’t have Presidents.

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        9 days ago

        After I first read the post, I thought 10, 100, easy typo. But then saw hundred was written out. And every place accepts 10s.

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      9 days ago

      I don’t think it’s neccesarily just ‘on currency must imply he was a president’.

      But rather that Franklin and Hamilton both are involved in a lot of those early USA events alongside your Washingtons and Jeffersons. Given their enduring popularity and heavy involvement in US politics, it is a little unintuitive to realize they weren’t presidents.

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    9 days ago

    He was totally a president though. (Of Pennsylvania)

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    9 days ago

    However, he is dead at this present dent in my car.

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      9 days ago

      Genuinely mystified as to how chatGPT is being blamed for anything here. Do you just randomly invoke it for upvotes or something?

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        9 days ago

        Because the OP is so confidently incorrect. It’s like neither it’s chat GPT or the OP is ignorant…