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by jtode 4y ago
That list is extremely incomplete, and makes it seem like bank runs are happening more lately than ever before. In the 19th century and before they were frequent: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/banking-pan
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by jtode 4y ago
I can't speak to the other countries, but I have no recollection of a bank run here in Canada in my lifetime. Do you have a link? And the scope of my comment is clearly limited to the USA. We don't have a "fed".
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by jtode 4y ago
Hey there, former sysop here, both on a C64 in the late 80s and a PC in the early 90s. I've been tossing around the idea of starting another one that you ssh to, and make it available as a docker image. Would anyone show up? Maybe if I
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by jtode 4y ago
A pleasure to finally meet you lol
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by jtode 4y ago
I've been thinking about this myself. I made some real-world friends from usenet. Not extremely close ones obviously, but I hung out mostly in a ng dedicated to a band (Ween) and when I travelled to see shows, I always had folks to han
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by jtode 4y ago
That's the one. My little friend was laughing his ass off right next to me, I was just horrified.
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by jtode 4y ago
When I was young but not too young I watched Monty Pythons Meaning Of Life movie. There's an extremely violent scene in that movie that I find very funny, now, but which disturbed the hell out of me as a kid. That's what he's
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by jtode 4y ago
Obvious classic is the Myst series, or rather, the first three of the series that were created by the Miller brothers. The less said about 4&5 the better. Cyan, their company, has been producing new titles, Obduction was quite good. You