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Ulf posted:No, it’s from zooming on the current US flag with its alternating 6/5 rows of stars. Unrelated but I found a 48 star flag while cleaning out my recently-departed grandmother-in-law's house and now I have to figure out the best way to display it without tearing it up
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Soylent Yellow posted:Quote is not edit. agree to disagree
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JesustheDarkLord posted:Unrelated but I found a 48 star flag while cleaning out my recently-departed grandmother-in-law's house and now I have to figure out the best way to display it without tearing it up Talk to museums or historical societies, they'll give you advice and a place to start for free, they love that poo poo
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Feb 19, 2024 00:59
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Someone is going to be proudly wearing those stupid ugly shoes at my job tomorrow. I guarantee it.
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Feb 19, 2024 01:41
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Tomorrow? That's some fast shipping.
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Zwabu posted:I wonder how long before the gold stuff flakes off and fades from those ridiculous gaudy sneakers. they are absolutely going to turn out to be fugazi trash bricks made out of tire rubber and prayers and will go from deadstock to trash in a single showcase wearing but it can still work because it isn't really targeting sneakerheads, its targeting celeb fomo sneakerhead-adjacents that idolize the wettest president
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Feb 19, 2024 03:11
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BiggerBoat posted:Someone is going to be proudly wearing those stupid ugly shoes at my job tomorrow. I guarantee it. Here's the best part, its just a preorder. None have been made past that one pair. Bets on them actually shipping is another thing. Just like all those 'Win a Dinner with Donald' that no one has ever won. e: looks like that golden pair he had were put up for auction and some Russian guy got them for $9k. OgNar fucked around with this message at 04:30 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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Feb 19, 2024 04:24
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It’s like that Ultra Right Beer that some brewery was trying to sell. It was like $35 for a 6er of some lovely lager. They took a bunch of preorders and never actually shipped any or something like that. A bunch of chuds got grifted out of their money because they hated Bud Light. You love to see it.
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Feb 19, 2024 04:38
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:It’s like that Ultra Right Beer that some brewery was trying to sell. It was like $35 for a 6er of some lovely lager. They took a bunch of preorders and never actually shipped any or something like that. A bunch of chuds got grifted out of their money because they hated Bud Light. You love to see it. Remember the guy that sold Ron Paul merchandise and did the Kickstarter for the game? He never even delivered the physical rewards.
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Feb 19, 2024 04:43
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:It’s like that Ultra Right Beer that some brewery was trying to sell. It was like $35 for a 6er of some lovely lager. They took a bunch of preorders and never actually shipped any or something like that. A bunch of chuds got grifted out of their money because they hated Bud Light. You love to see it. They shipped them. However they did such a god awful packing job that they constantly busted open during shipping. Most likely what happened is that the lovely beers got damaged out and the company never shipped a replacement order.
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Feb 19, 2024 04:58
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Let's not forget all the "Fund the Wall!" grifts
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Feb 19, 2024 04:59
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How DO those grifts get away with the money? Just that the people grifted are too lazy to actually sue?
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Feb 19, 2024 05:10
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Randalor posted:How DO those grifts get away with the money? Just that the people grifted are too lazy to actually sue? Doesn’t it all disappear into overheads and then 0.1% gets forwarded to something tangentially related to the purported purpose?
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Feb 19, 2024 05:14
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Randalor posted:How DO those grifts get away with the money? Just that the people grifted are too lazy to actually sue? They don't. The only reason Bannon's not in prison right now is because some maniac pardoned him.
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Feb 19, 2024 05:23
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Randalor posted:How DO those grifts get away with the money? Just that the people grifted are too lazy to actually sue? Most of the people getting scammed are losing less than the cost to hire a lawyer and fund a civil case.
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Feb 19, 2024 05:24
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Easiest would just to have the website set up overseas in some country that doesn't give a drat under a random name, and only accept bitcoin. Although I don't know that MAGA folk know how to use bitcoin.
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I would assume there's also a certain amount of "Trump is too lazy to go after people who scam him, so if they offer him $10k out of $10m, he just deposits the check and forgets about it."
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Feb 19, 2024 06:28
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Rand Brittain posted:I would assume there's also a certain amount of "Trump is too lazy to go after people who scam him, so if they offer him $10k out of $10m, he just deposits the check and forgets about it." I doubt trump knows about any of the scams happening in his name. He's oblivious to a hell of a lot. Other than the bannon one obviously, and the money was meant to be going to the wall not him, so you know, probably just respected him for trying to do a good scam.
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IIRC some of the wall scams built a few tens of metres of useless barrier somewhere disconnected from everywhere else, so they could claim they fulfilled.
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Staluigi posted:they are absolutely going to turn out to be fugazi trash bricks made out of tire rubber and prayers and will go from deadstock to trash in a single showcase wearing but it can still work because it isn't really targeting sneakerheads, its targeting celeb fomo sneakerhead-adjacents that idolize the wettest president I feel bad for the sneakerheads, all the ones I've seen since these abominations were revealed haven't even had anything left in them to be mad, they're just all super depressed that the thing they like is being sullied with the existence of such an atrocity
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The Lone Badger posted:IIRC some of the wall scams built a few tens of metres of useless barrier somewhere disconnected from everywhere else, so they could claim they fulfilled. Yeah, if I remember, the whole thing about the build a wall thing falling apart was that they repeatedly stated over and over that all the money was going to the wall and that they wouldn't see a dime of the cash. Then they cashed in, which landed them in hot water. Presumably if you don't make those guarantees and state up front how the money will be used, then you're golden if people still donate to you.
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Ms Adequate posted:I feel bad for the sneakerheads, all the ones I've seen since these abominations were revealed haven't even had anything left in them to be mad, they're just all super depressed that the thing they like is being sullied with the existence of such an atrocity The thing they like is stupid, so that's good
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dr_rat posted:Easiest would just to have the website set up overseas in some country that doesn't give a drat under a random name, and only accept bitcoin. If all else fails plenty of people by now have learned how to buy apple store gift cards at target
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Lord Stimperor posted:If all else fails plenty of people by now have learned how to buy apple store gift cards at target And also apparently they are for some reason many company and governments preferred methods of exchanging money. No a government tax department will never want you to pay a "suddenly discovered unpaid tax debt" in Apple store gift cards. Why the hell would that ever be a thing!!!! I wonder if Apple has internal numbers of what percentage of those cards are most likely just being used for crime.
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Feb 19, 2024 12:35
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dr_rat posted:I wonder if Apple has internal numbers of what percentage of those cards are most likely just being used for crime. All of them? I mean, what other benefit do they have over the same amount in currency?
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The Lone Badger posted:All of them? Unlike currency, you can pre-steal them! https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/what-is-the-card-draining-scam-police-warn-holiday-shoppers-purchasing-gift-cards Never buy gift cards.
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Yeah, I've never really gotten the concept of gift cards. I have received them occasionally as presents, so for some reasons people do actually buy them for that it seems? But seriously always just give cash. It's like a gift card but far more useful. What the hell?
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Say you're about to buy a computer from the apple store. Go to kroger, buy gift cards in the amount of the computer on a 4x fuel points day, using a credit card that gives you 2% back on groceries, take those cards to the apple store, and buy the computer with them. Now you have the computer for 2% cheaper and enough fuel points to fill up your tank for $10 for the rest of the month.
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dr_rat posted:Yeah, I've never really gotten the concept of gift cards. I have received them occasionally as presents, so for some reasons people do actually buy them for that it seems? It is a nice in-between of picking an actual present but not the details. Like, a restaurant gift card lets you gift someone a meal in a nice place but they can pick what they eat. Or a movie gift card is a nice evening in a movie theatre and they get to pick which one and when. Valiantman fucked around with this message at 13:41 on Feb 19, 2024 |
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Valiantman posted:It is a nice in-between of picking an actual present but not the details. Like, a restaurant gift card lets you gift someone a meal in a nice place but they can pick what they eat. Or a movie gift card is a nice evening in a movie theatre and they get to pick which one and when. They could do that if you just gave them money!!!
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Feb 19, 2024 13:43
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But you couldn't force them to do it. That's the fun.
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I have given a wrapped game disc as a present with a little gift card attached for getting the DLC because there's no GOTY edition of Breath of the Wild for some reason.
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Jesus III posted:But you couldn't force them to do it. That's the fun. Oh so gift cards are just a kink thing? That makes sense.
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Back when I did customer support for Apple, I had a call from one person who preferred to use those prepaid Visa gift cards to make purchases in the app store, but did this often enough that they stopped being able to add new credit card numbers to their account. That was pretty much the perfect scenario for gift cards, and I told them as much.
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There are also people who can't have money, at least not wired to them. Think for instance people on benefits, where a deposit into their account might get them in trouble. And you can sort of launder them. E At years end, my employer lets us shop in a gift store. It's mostly rubbish, or gift cards. If I can't use the gift card I sell it for about 90% value.
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There also used to be machines that would exchange gift cards for cash. I have no idea how that was legal (and these machines were in supermarkets, even) seeing as how I saw these circa 2020, long after concerns about money laundering via gift cards had been raised.
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Angry_Ed posted:There also used to be machines that would exchange gift cards for cash. I have no idea how that was legal (and these machines were in supermarkets, even) seeing as how I saw these circa 2020, long after concerns about money laundering via gift cards had been raised. There have been several entire industries of automatic pawn shop machines in supermarkets that make very low level crime easier. Like those, the cellphone "recycling" stations, the coinstar(rare coin collections), cash for gold, etc. I'm surprised we haven't seen something as brazen as a machine that takes copper wire.
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