butterflyattack @ butterflyattack @lemmy.world

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Bank errors in your favour do happen, or at least they did - one happened to me maybe twenty five years ago. I was broke and went to the bank to pay in my last £30-something of cash to cover an outgoing bill. Stopped at the cash machine outside my bank to check my balance was sufficient now, and found that the cashier had put an extra 4 zeros on the figure I'd deposited. I was rich! I was also in my early 20s and not thinking too clearly I guess because my immediate response was to rush home to get my passport with the intention of going abroad and opening an account into which to transfer the funds, never coming back. I checked my balance again at another machine closer to home and the bank had already caught and corrected their mistake. Took them maybe thirty minutes.

After a bit of occurred to me that I was lucky really, because I didn't know what the fuck I was doing and the funds would have been traced very easily and I'd have been in deep shit.

But yeah, anecdotal, but shit like that did happen. I assume it's more rare these days as fewer humans are involved in the system, and fewer people use cash.

Zoo visitors however said that the enthusiastic and uninhibited nature of their sex life certainly implied consent, even if the bird was unable to vocalise this.

Personally, I think it's fairly likely that Jesus was a real person, or possibly the amalgamation of the myths of several people who were well known at the time. I just don't think he was the son of God etc, all the angels and shit. It seems likely he was a grass roots activist amongst an oppressed population experiencing military occupation. Probably got put to death for it too, and then somehow his posthumous reputation got mixed up with religion and hits exaggerated biography was tacked onto the Jewish bible and became the new testament.

No need to believe in all the miracles and shit, it just seems more likely that he was an activist who got famous than that someone sat down and wrote a piece of fiction and managed to found a religion based on it. Although TBF I guess Hubbard did that so who really knows?

Yeah Herodotus talks about a lot of peoples with different physical characteristics too. Although TBF like the old testament, it's written centuries before Jesus, I'm not sure the same applies to both time periods.

Do they want to burn her at the stake for witch craft like it's fucking 1724

That is a bit further down the path they've started down with criminalising abortion. They've got to decriminalise violence against women before they can actually start burning them. They're getting there, though.

Nah, check the username.

As a British person who spent several years living and working in EU countries before brexit and is now unable to - I don't think I'll ever stop being furious at the ignorant bigoted fucks who voted away the wonderful freedom of movement we shared with our neighbours. Useless slack-jawed gibbering wankers.

Or fashion bow ties from their testicles. . ?

Yeah, this is why capitalism should be treated like a dangerous dog and kept on a short leash. It can kind of work out for a while when a government restrains it, ensures that legislation exists and is enforced to protect workers, the environment, and consumers. Strong unions are a good sign. This never seems to last though, because the governments get bought eventually.

Netscape navigator was free on CDs!

Doesn't mean they won't sue.

You've just solved drowning for humanity, you're a genius! Imagine how many could have been saved if only someone could have thought of that millennia ago.

There's always going to be some who think they'll be able to cash in by saying they worked for the former president. They're probably right too. And some are just trumpsuckers.

Really? Wow, that's high grade scum.

It's identifying, and I feel no shame!

He'd have had to grip it in his teeth though, probably would have been a bit tricky really.

Yeah but I'm on there taking a piss against my work van so I'm prepared to forgive it a lot.

Europe isn't depending on the US for their defense. The countries in Europe have their own militaries and two - three if you count Russia - are nuclear armed. They just don't have as high a percentage military spending as the US does. Many of them prioritise stuff like healthcare for their populations.

It's after school, which is a smart move - there are probably some working single parents who are delighted to have a couple of hours of free child care.

I've done it for over twenty years. It's feasible, but sometimes not ideal.