• Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org
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    9 days ago

    Yes, it has happened to me.

    I had put my money into the ticket vending machine on the train platform. The ticket came out, but the machine could not cut off the paper properly. Well, not too serious, I could live with that ticket that was looking just a little bit crumpled. After several seconds, an error message appeared on the screen. Then the machine decided to give me my money back. So I had both: my ticket and my money.

    I liked that so much that I tried it again, and it gave exactly the same result again.

    I could probably have repeated it for hours, but then my train appeared. :-)

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      8 days ago

      When I was young we had a postage stamp vending machine.
      And I believe it had a bunch of stamps peeking out from under it. And also tried to extract some more. Took as many as I could, which ended in about 5 or 10€ in postage stamps :)

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    8 days ago

    fund research in high density cities with good public trans. don’t pay high but comes with housing, education, food, and other various perks. The housing and research institutes will have no parking.

  • \[DUMBASS]/@aussie.zone
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    9 days ago

    Shut up and tell absofukinglutely no one about it, then I would work out a way to secretly siphon it off to people I like.

  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    9 days ago

    Build and buy media networks and hire the best investigative journalists. Back centre-left political parties worldwide and back unions and backstop strike funds until the whole world strikes like the French. Fund electrified mass transit, renewable energy and passivehouse construction and urban controlled-environment agriculture. Fund orphanages, school food programs and poverty alleviation and social justice causes.

    I’d also start an eco-religion whose funding goes to a land trust that buys important and sensitive lands to return to wilderness and 50% can be lightly used by humans as national parks and 50% is forbidden for humans at all. Church of Gaia. The church would have monks who work as rangers/land defenders to enforce the holy order.

    I would live a quiet simple life in a relatively modest but comfortable passive house on a permaculture farm. My “car” would be a selection of percheron horses and a small selection of carriage/wagons.

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    8 days ago

    Keep it to myself and fund projects I like (under the assumption that I could get a million € per h for example)

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Really? Keep it so quiet.

    Would do the things to the house that we say we’d do if we had all the money. But not more. Get the car my husband wants, but with a loan so it’s not so obvious. I don’t need one. Start putting the max into the retirement accounts and pull an extra couple thousand to pay for stuff each month.

    I feel like this would basically need to be laundered like crime money, if we wanted to do more with it, even good things. Would think on it, but without a way to do that I would just use it.

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    9 days ago

    Free housing, healthcare, and education for everyone!

    Just kidding. I’d dress up like a bat and beat up clowns.