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Crypto made a mockery of the authorities and their war on drugs. A bad idea lol? No, it started a revolution.

I'm not so sure about that. I mean, maybe not since the Snowden leaks but how do we know that governments haven't been running their own LLMs for the last five years or so? We know that they're using sockpuppets[1]. We know that they're astroturfing[2]. Integrating LLMs into their toolkits seems like an obvious move, so obvious that they would be stupid not to do it.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/mar/17/us-spy-op...

[2] https://boingboing.net/2015/06/22/gchqs-psy-ops-squad-target...

I would add one exception - religion. Having the big pay day come after death means that the fraud can never be uncovered.

That's the thing about frauds. They look really good until all of a sudden, they don't.

America is relatively unique in that its culture celebrates "coaching" which is the angle that many of these get-rich-quick schemes take. I guess that it might be related to the sports centric high school education that many (most?) Americans experience.

eBay outsource their customer service to Filipino workers.

No, it's because if the specific details were included then the posters would be doxing themselves. It's very easy to lookup sold listings on eBay.

Ritalin is readily available on the darknet. Not that I would advise anyone to do anything illegal! I'm sure these kind therapists have our best interests at heart and they're not just gatekeeping in order to profit from molecules they played no part in creating...

I keep hearing this but surely if you presented your prescription in court the charges would be dropped? In my experience, magistrates are usually very reasonable. Police on the other hand...

I thought it was an Australia thing but yes, $1.50 pipes and $3 fittings are the norm here too. Fortunately, you can 3d print fittings which opens up all sorts of possibilities that don't really make sense for use in plumbing.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2956356

My system is 100% automated. Sonarr + Radarr + Prowlarr + Deluge + SABnzdb FTW.

I stuck to using torrents for years but about 6 months ago I switched to Usenet and the $10 p/m for the Usenet provider and $30/year for an indexer is definitely worth the money. Now instead of having hundreds of seedless torrents in my queue, my system downloads even the most obscure media at a speed that completely saturates my connection.

PVC pipes and fittings.

People say this kind of thing all the time but I'm yet to see an internet scammer get their comeuppance. That includes people who have been identified after running exit scamming darknet markets. My guess would be that when it comes to online fraud, people are more willing to swallow it because it doesn't seem so real.

Here's a proper sleep tourism idea that I had a few years ago:

Going on a long international flight? Well fly with Cloud 9 and our trained anesthetists will put you to sleep before your journey so that you can wake up at your destination, seemingly instantly. Because we don't have to worry about our passengers moving about, we can stack them vertically and pass the savings on to you.

Wow. I guess that Musk made him an offer that he couldn't refuse!I wonder how much.

Most likely. As someone who was deep into the hacking and phreaking worlds when I was a kid, I've often thought that I would have had a better career if I'd been busted for some of the hundreds of crimes that I committed as a child.

I love this version of that painting.

https://player.vimeo.com/video/191632804

I always thought that the name was the cause. I don't follow Nintendo very closely so when I heard about the Wii U I just assumed it was a slightly enhanced Wii, not a separate console.

It's a lot easier to get a refund on PayPal than a real bank. The one time that I did a charge-back on my credit card, my bank gave me the 3rd degree and made me feel like I was the criminal.

You're right about PayPal helping themselves to bank debits. I have a small eBay business and back when they dealt directly with PayPal, I would have a separate account to receive the funds and as soon as they hit I would transfer the money out. It's just part of the OPSEC that's required when dealing with our new megacorp overlords.

I prefer to use PayPal to pay at random sites just because I'd rather not give my credit card number to a site that could be backdoored or even run by fraudsters.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/05/18/fbi_credit_card/

Except for Kava which has recently been legalised. There's even a Kava company listed on the ASX! It just goes to show that when money talks, politicians listen.

https://fijikava.com/

A long as dinosaurs don't have feathers, I'm happy to have some historical inaccuracy in my entertainment.

I read the title as Cult of the Dead Cow and had a flashback to my misspent youth.

Leeches actually work though and we still use them today.

Or maybe it's just the most brilliant scam to ever be conceived? A ponzy scheme with a built-in rinse and repeat function that also put the final nail in the coffin of the war on drugs. Scam or not, it was a revolutionary idea which was executed perfectly.

There are casinos aimed at children but instead of playing for money they play for game skins which can be sold for money.

I think that Stake make their own games. Or at least a company owned by the same people as Stake makes the games.

From https://www.smh.com.au/business/markets/the-secret-australia...

> In 2016, the pair set up Easygo which focused on developing games for online casinos and helped build Stake.com into an online casino powerhouse.

> If Tether dies, it's the end of cryptocurrency, period.

That's what I thought about MtGox. How wrong I was.