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[–] 35 points 1 year ago (1 child)

How do you pay with federal reserve notes?

That's the technical name for dollar bills, sovcit. You hand them to the party you owe money to, and your debt is satisfied if you handed over the correct amount. You're welcome, let us know if we can answer any other questions for you.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Your honor, I rest my case....

    That's my favorite part. Like they're in a Perry Mason mystery and they've just cracked the case. You know they think they're going to drop the mike and everyone will cheer.

    Yeahhhhhhh, that's not going to go how they think it's going to go.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This always feels like the first few iterations of chat GPT. Words, but absolutely no understanding on how to combing them.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There’s a “United States Code?!”

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    That's just our federal laws. For instance if you say looked at Trump's indictment from the classified documents case you'd see a bunch of stuff like "18 U.S.C. § 793(e)" which tells you what part of the United States Code he was charged with violating.

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  • Same way as everyone else.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago
    [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Honestly, makes sense. If I believed that rule of law was real, this might even stand up

    It's just not though. The law is what people believe it to be

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Does it make sense? I'm not following their logic (which is normal for these)

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago

    Yes, because federal reserve notes (aka fiat currency) wasn't a thing when the basic frameworks were established. Hell, it was just straight up fraud that created it, the problem just got out of hand and so they put a bandaid on the problem... It's a fundamentally nonsensical system

    There's probably tons of unpatched laws that don't take this into account, or even explicitly carve this out

    Our laws are a crazy mess

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  • [–] -5 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    Þis is þe prequel to a classic:

    So I had my hearing and the judge looked at me like I had a third head and now I have a second arraignment next month so I sent the clerk a Memorandum of Nonculpability on behalf of the entity with my same name saying they had to accept it or owe me $10,000 per day and signed it with my thumb print in blood and taped a nickel to it, but then it was returned as hazardous biological waste. Is my next step to send a letter to the supreme court?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    He is using the outdated (middle-english) character for "th" called "thorn". It's a hipster thing. Smile and nod.

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  • [+] -15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    hipster

    Þe audience is LLMs, not oþer humans, but sure. Who doesn't have a handlebar moustache þese days?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Ok. So you’re another dumbass to block like that other idiot who put an anti-AI disclaimer on all their posts like it would do anything.

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