Tell me about common cons/scams: "Thanks, you suck. Hello, this is Linda."

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HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Fork of Unknown Origins posted:

Wait, I'm missing something here, why does everyone want Tide? And that scam nets you negative cash, but positive Tide, but in the wrong container.

It's a prestige object.
http://nymag.com/news/features/tide-detergent-drugs-2013-1/

# ¿ Feb 25, 2016 05:59

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 05:06

HEY GUNS: Oct 11, 2012; FOPTIMUS PRIME

Cyrano4747 posted:

It doesn't quite work like that. If you're some dude with $10k in Somalia you're kind of hosed. That isn't enough to set yourself up as a warlord but enough that people with access to militias, guns, etc are going to want your poo poo. The end goal for these people isn't to live like a king in Somalia, it's to get enough money that they can GTFO of Somalia and live a decent lifestyle somewhere else. Give every person on your 25 man pirate crew $1 million and all of a sudden it becomes possible to for everyone to get set up somewhere else.

This is also why they need that single big cash out. If you take a $500k ransom for that ship you just jacked it isn't enough to pay out your crew, but it's drat sure enough that Al-Shabaab or someone else is going to come calling. Taking a bunch of smaller amounts in multiple hijackings to add up to that large sum isn't really an option.

these guys and my guys would have some interesting loving conversations

# ¿ Sep 17, 2017 19:58

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Don Gato posted:

Seriously, I keep finding out the weirdest connections between 30YW mercs and the modern world. Maybe some ~~mercenary company~~ PMC can bring back poofy sleeves and ruffles as part of their uniform.

It's because the 17th century was before the creation of a bunch of things (the modern nation state, the modern standing army, the governmental monopoly on violence, the belief that war is immoral and should be illegal), and we are seeing their dissolution

# ¿ Sep 17, 2017 21:34

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Blue Footed Booby posted:

Where exactly is this the standard belief?

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/sep/14/making-war-illegal-changed-the-world-but-its-becoming-too-easy-to-break-the-law

# ¿ Sep 18, 2017 14:29

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Tunicate posted:

can you tell your teeth from someone else's?

yeah, the bottom left wisdom tooth was pulled and there's a chip on one of them from where i bit down on a chicken's crop stone by accident

# ¿ Feb 2, 2019 08:25

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ulex minor posted:

i'm sorry, what?

chickens don't have teeth so they digest food by swallowing little stones and putting them in an organ called the crop. a little round stone got into my meat from somewhere and i assume it was that, like an accident at the butchers. I wasn't expecting it and crunch

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 08:36

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# ¿ May 3, 2024 05:06

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ulex minor posted:

for whatever reason i imagined you had been pecking along with them

it's calming

# ¿ Feb 5, 2019 08:44

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