• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Go online

    Post advertisement for obvious scam

    Get no sales

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    Spend more money on advertising

    Get a few tiny nibbles at my scam

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    Spend enormous amounts of money on advertising

    Finally, some traction. Approaching break-even point. I can see the light of day on the horizon. Perhaps I can turn a profit in another few months.

    Look at my budget. Oops! All Advertising!

    Realize I could have operated a real for-profit business that made something useful and turned a profit much faster

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    Cops secretly love it when you prove that you’ve not broken the law. They will test you by contradicting you, but you just gotta raise your voice and gesticulate wildly, and they will come around to your way of thinking. The longer you argue your point, the more they will respect you

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    If I was buying mystery boxes of mystery shit on the deep web and ended up with a box of girl scout cookies I wouldn’t even be mad.

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      That’s the genius of it. Oh, my box is Thin Mints? Cool! Especially when you have had a few days to think of all the worse things it could have been.

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      Are girl scout cookies always the same or does it depend on where they come from? I’ve seen them in just about every American sitcom/animated sitcom ever and I’m just curious if they are a specific brand or something else?

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        They’re all the same.

        “Girl Scout Cookies” is a brand of its own. They’re mostly pretty good too. I’m a samoa guy, when I can be talked into spending way too much on cookies where the actual local scouts don’t really see enough of the funding from the sales.

        I’m not a fan of the organization. The cookies though, they’re legit.

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          Small correction, only discovered when I moved across the country: there are two factories producing Girl Scout Cookies – and the recipes have overlap, but each production company has a few unique ones. So sometimes I have to order from my niece rather than my neighbor.

          Some of them are the same everywhere, though.

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            That’s why in some areas Samoas are called Caramel Delights. IIRC, they use extremely slightly different recipes, and there is some sort of licensing agreement between the two.

            All I know is that as a Cub/Boy Scout, I loathed Girl Scout Cookie season, because it overlapped with Boy Scout Popcorn season. It took me years to figure out that the way to sell the stuff was to completely ignore the product, and sell the idea of “keeping young boys from inventing their own entertainment.”

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          Thanks for the answer. The need for something on such a huge scale just for girls scouts seems crazy to me! But your country is on a huge scale I suppose.

  • I'm back on my BS 🤪@lemmy.autism.place
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    I don’t know how people mess around on the dark web. I used Tor to bounce around onion sites back in ~2011 and learned my lesson. I haven’t been back on since. Eff that. First of all, way too slow and finding sites is a pain. But even when I did find sites, it was too dangerous and creepy. I rather not even know what’s on there. I can get obsessed with how shitty humanity is.

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      Unfortunately, it’s currently the most reliable way to get LSD and MDMA… :'(

      Never though I would miss my shady AF dealer from the '90s and '00s

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        Seeing the extremely affordable insulin for sale on a dark web marketplace was my biggest takeaway from my quick poking around. That on its own should be incredibly damning

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      So long as you’re tech-savvy it’s not hard at all to make a safe, secure purchase (or so I’ve heard).

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          Ehhhh, mental outlaw made a video on just that topic a few hours ago.

          TLDW: people didn’t update packages for illegal tings, glowys rolled up.

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            Yup. My takeaway from that video is:

            1. Don’t do illegal stuff
            2. If you do illegal stuff, don’t get chatty about it

            The more packets they have to work with, the more likely they can track you down.

            So if you’re going to buy illegal stuff, make sure the website is as simple as possible (so less packets flying around for things like images) and keep the transaction short.

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    If this was real I’d be interested in the details. Did anon accept fiat or crypto? Were the boxes advertised mainly on the darknet itself? Or clearnet, and if clearnet how did they get users that know wtf an onion link is or how to use it? Were the police alerted by an irate customer calling the police near the return address, or were the cops buying the cookies as a sting operation?