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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Nobody really does physical banking any more so the banks are closing their physical branches. There’s a lot of backlash because a few people can’t use online banking, it’s difficult because the numbers are small and it’s hard to justify staffing a full building when 5 customers turn up each day.

    It’s not brexit related.















  • I’ve never fallen for bad scams luckily but I fall for little ones sometimes. Like once I was entering the subway in a country where I didn’t speak the language and this guy coming the other way said the trains were cancelled, so I asked how do I get to X place, and he’s like “Oh, my friend has a taxi company, come with me and I’ll sort you out”. I was just about to follow him when I came back to my senses. Obviously there was nothing wrong with the trains and he was trying to fleece a tourist… or kidnap a woman, but I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt.


  • Not all, but most don’t seem to have adventures. When I was a kid I’d go off into the woods and build a den or climb a tree, we once spent a whole week trying to dam a stream, god knows why. None of my friends kids go anywhere by themselves, a lot of them do ‘forest school’ where they’ll be taken by adults to a sanitised woodland and taught how to build a teepee with pre cut wood, and it’s just not the same thing.



  • At least in my country, you’re in there because you’re a danger to yourself or others, with weight on the latter because if you’re suicidal and lucid then they can’t section you.

    So it is kinda the same thing, like people in prison are kept in that way because they’re dangerous to the population.

    Obviously there’s voluntary admissions and stuff, but they’re fewer and the staff there aren’t really briefed so it’s easier to care for everyone the same