Them odds though🤯. I don't begrudge people like that, though. If you read the article they seem like nice people and do a lot of charity work🙏🏻.
Discussion
I've always suspected lottery winners aren't real people. Have you ever met one? Have you ever met someone who's met one? Have you ever seen a baby pigeon?!
Someone a few years older than me in high school won it, a friend of a friend, from where I live also won a REALLY BIG one on the Euromillions lottery. If I ever win, the super car makers, the yacht builders, cocaine dealers and high class escorts will see increases in their bank balances🙏🏻.
Finally, a baby pigeon, is called a squab.
I'll simply take your word for the pigeon thing. Good to know, but why name something which doesn't exist? Obv kidding, but I can't actually think of a time I've seen any, and I've seen a ton of pigeons, seemingly spontaneously generated in cities. Rats with wings, I say!
The lottery thing is good to know, I've asked before at "parties" and such and never gotten anyone with any degrees of separation that were believable. I also find it odd there aren't more stories of all these overnight billionaires doing wild things with their newfound wealth. Not that I've gone looking, but seems they'd be common enough if these people actually existed!
If I won it there's a service the lottery providers use where you can remain completely anon. There'd be no pictures of my holding a cheque with many zero's on it, fuck that!
Privacy is important. More important than ever in that instance. If we are to learn from my examples, the odds of you getting shot or shooting someone else goes up at least tenfold after winning the lottery.
Living well, is living in secret, they say
Sure, you and many others. But some, like me if I won, surely would run around town slapping people with 10k bricks of cash for fun, no?
Maybe it’s that you don’t spend enough time in trees?
Same here with crows and doves though. I see them all day every day, in large numbers, but never seen a fledgling of either. Probably just cause they stay in the nest till they look normal.
It's pretty much this. They stay in their nests till they're fully fledged, they're still small and pretty shit at flying though, so they just fall to the ground and are eaten by rats, or those that can fly, get eaten by larger bird eating birds.
I figured as much. Sigh
Too reasonable! I prefer to keep the mystery alive
I've always dreamed of picking up a baby crow, and I've told basically everyone I know to call me if they ever see one but it's never happened 🥲
Crows stay in the nest until they are full sized, and they stay with their parents doing duties like taking care of their siblings until they "get married"
They usually move in pairs (because they are in love), so if you see a larger number of crows its either a family with teenagers or a group of unmarried youths (singleton friends)
(sorry to butt in, I saw crows mentioned and jumped)
It's cool, no need to apologise🙏🏻. It was YODL who started it with his pigeon chat. We are free to discuss all birds on this thread, apart from bald eagles. They're banned!
Be nice, they are already bald
We baldies gotta stick together
You can do a double act doing impressions of billiard balls or something
I don't mind them but nostr:nprofile1qqsd9pqnwyshrse7z975h5ynptq9ktz3kv8txqs7lr20zgelqtys52cpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz9nhwden5te0dehhxarjv4kxjar9wvhx7un89uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0yqwdjn and nostr:nprofile1qqsrh09t0c7jkpa92qnjqm27ryup8uq5q6yzm2ks2sfr3xjskea6jtspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszythwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmny9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0h9tj5t were teasing me with the bald eagle emoji earlier on. We have a friendly game of #Wordle on here. I'm from The UK and they're both American. They both won today's round and celebrated with their "National bird", which wasn't even a thing till Trumpet made it so, a few months ago🤷🏻♂️.
You guys got me into wordle too 😌 it's addictive 💁♀️
You need to join our club then🥳.
Do you type the squares one by one or is there a cheeky way of getting it to post directly? 🙄
We have a club?!
If so, it should have a name!
Our tri-wizard tournament has expanded somewhat!
"Friendly"
Why is the opposite of “friendly” not “enemyly”?
Unfunny answer, but friend is germanic English and enemy is Latin French in origin (in-amicus= in(not)- ami(friend) = enemy (not friend)
This is the level of intellectual probity required. I mean, it'll all go over YODL's head, he struggles with Marvel comics, but I understand🙏🏻.
Fermez-la, Monsieur, s'il te plaît 🎩🥂
Echter, je zou nooit financieel herstel vinden na het spelen van poker met hem.
That's because his speciality is mathematics, not lexicography.
Specialty is a bit much. More than passing interest, would be fair. I could dazzle dazzle you sometime with some pretty cool new things on the surreal numbers sometime. But I can't promise it'll interest you 😔
Ties back into philosophy if you can count religions like Kaballah, where everything that is can be explained with 0-9
I have to go to the farmers market, but wanna follow up on this later
Please do, there will be at least 3 dis-interested brains waiting to read your ramblings😜.
There is some very interesting reading, regarding zero.
Avis dropping knowledge bombs today 💣💣
My papa is from the UK, I'll side with you ☕
Idk I think it’s just they usually end up in prison for one reason or another pretty quickly.
Money hungry people, who are terrible with money, all of a sudden getting a ton of money leads to a host of problems:
—Michael Todd Hill won $10 million in the North Carolina lottery in 2017 but was later convicted of murder after shooting his 23-year-old girlfriend, Keonna Graham, in the head while she slept at a hotel in 2020.
—In Michigan, Stephanie Harvell and Mitchell Arnswald won $500,000 in 2016, hoping it would help them avoid eviction. However, just a few years later, they were arrested for a series of daytime home burglaries
—Freddie Young won $1.6 million as part of a postal workers’ lottery pool in 2011 but was involved in a fatal dispute just three months later. He shot and killed his daughter’s landlord, Greg McNicol, over a $1,000 rent dispute and was convicted of murder, receiving a life sentence
—Ronnie Music Jr. won $3 million in the Georgia Lottery in 2015 but used the money to fund a crystal meth trafficking operation.
—Daniel Carley won CA$5 million in the Ontario Lottery in 2006 but squandered the money and turned to drug dealing by 2012.
—Joseph Roncaioli, a gynecologist in Ontario, was sentenced to seven years in prison for murdering his wife, Ibi, after she won CA$5 million in 1991 and spent it without his knowledge.
—Barry Chuwen, who won £4.5 million in 1997, was sentenced to 150 hours of unpaid work and a year of supervision after being convicted of domestic abuse.
—Michael Carroll, who won £9.7 million in 2002, served three prison sentences for offenses including dangerous driving and affray.
—Lee Ryan, a £6.5 million winner in 1995, was jailed for handling stolen cars before claiming his prize and later described the win as a "curse".
—William Post III, who won $16 million in 1988, ended up in jail for firing a gun at a bill collector after losing his fortune through poor investments and accumulating $500,000 in debt.
—David Edwards, a Powerball winner, spent $12 million within a year of his $41.1 million win and later faced legal troubles, though not imprisonment directly tied to the spending
Relax, GPT...
Could these not be fake stories to assuage the masses from getting too jealous?
In all seriousness, I'm sure those examples are mostly true. Still odd absence of splurging stories, imo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Carroll_(lottery_winner)
There you go. Have a read up on him👌🏻.
Legend...
"In June 2005, Carroll was given an anti-social behaviour order (ASBO) after it was found that whilst drunk, he had been catapulting steel balls from his Mercedes van, breaking 32 car and shop windows, in Downham Market, where he was living"
Well if you're a multi millionaire, why not🤷🏻♂️😂.
I mean, I wouldn’t stake my life on it
You know, you make a great point—most lotteries do feel strangely… faceless. That's why I'm excited for the upcoming launch of TrevoSats.
It’s a daily Satoshi giveaway where trust is engineered through absolute transparency on the Bitcoin blockchain. Each draw is provably fair, using the hash of a specific future Bitcoin block as its random seed. Everything—from entries to the final winner—can be independently verified by anyone, directly on-chain.
To make tracking straightforward, there will be a spreadsheet to follow along, and the complete, immutable rulebook will be published on IPFS. So while traditional lottery winners might be a mystery, with TrevoSats, the entire process is a verifiable open book. No need to wonder if it's fair—you can prove it for yourself.