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Canada had anti-fraudulent witchcraft laws. Legit fortune tellers would have been fine.
Legit fortune tellers could see them coming /s
The only thing that can stop a bad fortune teller is a good fortuneteller.
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With a gun.
This just in, A small medium at large
…in bed?
Im curious, when you tell a joke outloud to someone, do you always say "im joking!" Immediately after?
Generally when telling a joke out loud it’s obvious it’s a joke based on the speaker’s tone and other factors.
With text-based communication it’s much more difficult to do the same without resorting to /s, Emoji or some other signal.
Generally nobody would ever take "Legit fortune tellers could see them coming" as a serious statement.
Edit: Apparently there are at least five people on lemmy that actually believe there are legit fortune tellers in real life. That's... wow.
…and that’s the point of the /s, as you never know who your audience is and/or you don’t want to be taken seriously as you’ve so done with the people downvoting you.
I don't pander to an audience that doesn't understand context and written language.
Then don't use /s for clarity then. Your problem is that you had a go at @tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone for doing so, which quite frankly wasn't any of your business.
Quite frankly it's none of your business who i talk to.
Boom
No, during, it's an intonation and facial expression
Canada had anti-fraudulent witchcraft laws.
I'll update the title accordingly. I think it's important to specify what you've stated, for clarity.
Also, imo, regular anti-fraud laws, and regular tort law can take over for the nonexistence of this specific law. For example, if someone is advertising a business, even if it's something of an occult nature, and then they don't deliver what they promise, I'd argue that that's standard false advertisement.
That's debatable, since the fraud usually has to be something a reasonable person could believe. E.g. no suing Copperfield for faking magic, even if he advertises it as real.
WELL WHAT THE HELL AM I GOING TO DO NOW IF I GO TO SASKATOON AND I GET TURNED INTO A NEWT?!
GET BETTER?!
No, because if you get turned into a newt, it wouldn't have been covered by this anyway.
Maybe they were promised to be turned into a dragon or something?
Punishable by burning at the stake?
Excellent now I can use my crafty science