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Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by Acutulus »

jokethrowaway wrote: post #98
flatiron wrote: post #67

I live in NJ where weed is legal but you can't buy it (legally) so we are sort of in a weird spot. anyway, it makes me really not care about ordering weed on the dark web from CA. if the feds catch it, its an ounce of weed to a residence, they don't care and im not gonna go in front of some federal judge on federal drug crimes. if CA or NJ catch it, its legal there, who cares. but the site I use uses an escrow system…

I used that and got my money back when a shipping didn't arrive. Also the quality and honesty of the sellers on the quantity they're selling you is great. It's beautiful to see how the market and a reputation system can work wonders, even among strangers with anonymised identities. The street experience equivalent is terrible. A friend of mine (who self medicated in one of the western totalitarian regimes who prohibi…

Oh my god. If anything I applaud his willingness to stay on the hunt :) Presumably this was in a larger city, as most of the places I have been have had ad hoc, safe and established distribution networks that weren't too difficult to break into after some time. This is in the US though and I can't quite tell what country you're referring to (though I could see someone referring to the US tongue-in-cheek that way)

I'd go even further to make a case that the market and its reputation system works similarly well for the aforementioned ground level networks, if you can find them. Read the room, be a desirable client and behave with everyone's interests in mind and you will likely never have an issue. Good business is good business regardless of whether it happens online or in person I suppose.

As an aside I often wonder to what degree the prevalence of onion markets over the past decade have impacted the availability of weed within these offline distribution networks. My anecdotal experience from my legal-weed-desert neck of the US has been a slow growth of offerings and inventory stability and a 20-40% reduction in prices. No idea how much of that is due to the online markets.

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Post by Acutulus »

dillondoyle wrote: post #118
angryGhost wrote: post #75

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if they seize any powder, they might come a knockin'!

It would be pretty amazing for within the US USPS to not only search but find powdered drugs or pills. It's protected and they need a search warrant. Reasonable cause etc. Maybe if they already had an investigation on you and you were distributing. Customs on the other hand... Though if it's small volume they will often just send you a scary letter in the mail, especially if it's just sketchy looking pills. Or if the…

That's how it generally happens from what I understand. A local or isolated investigation is started and during the process they may uncover a reasonably high-level source of the product. Should they be lucky enough to get a warrant to scan an email server that has plaintext business contents, they might come across a trove of tracking numbers. From there the three letter agency will disseminate tips and intel to more local police forces and field offices and innumerable people start getting love letters, visits, surveillance.

I also recall hearing that the USPS tracking info page is quite complex under the hood and logs a lot of your device/connection information when you enter a tracking number. No idea how true this is, but it wouldn't surprise me at all and I hope people behave as if it is.

Agreed about the wasted 20's on the internet. No doubt I could have better spent my time. But there was some incredible and wild stuff going on out in the wires.

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Post by joshgrib »

int_19h wrote: post #134
joshgrib wrote: post #73

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Not an expert on the topic, but my understanding is that anarchy rejects governance in general - there wouldn't be any "elevated decision-making body". It's not as much "you can leave if you don't like it" as it's "if you're here then you can change things". I'm not prepared to defend this but that's the view - if you have a system of governance it isn't anarchy so if the argument is "all systems of governance are at…

Anarchism rejects imposed hierarchy of authority. It does not reject governance in general.

Maybe we're just getting philosophical about word meanings here but how can you have governance that isn't imposed/hierarchical/authoritative? If whoever is making the rules says you can't do something and someone wants to, then the governance is the process that stops them. If someone is prevented from doing something, that implies a hierarchy capable of preventing the action, and that capability would have to be imposed by an authority.

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Post by paledot »

crtasm wrote: post #198
cgriswald wrote: post #157

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If you try to use your browser's standard right-click Pinterest intercepts and gives you the option to Save (to Pinterest), open link (the very one you are viewing) in a new tab, see more ideas about education (on Pinterest!), see more from renee ma (on Pinterest!), or login or sign up for Pinterest. If you click on the image, which is a link, it gives you a sign-in form. Sure, the three dots are there to click; but…

> Why wouldn't it just be a download button... My guess is more options become available if you're logged in.

That's the worst part. If you're logged in, it'll flat refuse to show you the picture you logged in to see, and will instead dump you into a timeline of completely irrelevant images calibrated to improve your engagement.

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Post by NoboruWataya »

phillc73 wrote: post #191
stef25 wrote: post #174

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Here in Belgium there's a platform on which you can sell invoices that have say a 90 day payment term to someone who'll give you say 95% of it, if you need that money immediately. They then get the full invoice after 90 days.

I had a small business once with a few large outstanding invoices. These were owed to us (small company) by a very large organisation. Our payment terms were 30 days and the invoices were now out to 120 days. We were hurting very badly, but had pretty much no leverage over the very large organisation to make them pay - we weren't the only game in town and they could just take their business elsewhere. Anyway, we inve…

From the circumstances you were describing I'm surprised you were even offered 70%, as it sounds like there was a significant risk those invoices would not get paid. The 95% (or there abouts) is for invoices that will almost certainly be paid on time. Defaulting debts are often sold for cents on the dollar.

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Post by NoboruWataya »

Fnoord wrote: post #182
seanhunter wrote: post #175

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That's a very common form of trade finance worldwide, and is usually called "invoice discounting" or "receivables factoring" https://tradefinanceanalytics.com/what-is-factoring

There's collection agencies with no cure no pay (who add up their own fee upon the debt), and there's debt traders who buy a debt for a lower price and who then harass the person who (allegedly!) owes the money. Its a scoundrel market, IMO. Heartless, Ellisonish. County court bailiff (gerechtsdeurwaarder) is a government variant which has legal merit (unlike the other 2). Still, doesn't mean they are morally right (a…

I don't think that's what the parent comment is talking about. It's talking about selling non-defaulted invoices as, essentially, a form of secured financing for the vendor company. The invoices are highly likely to get paid in the ordinary course and usually the company selling them even continues to "service" them, ie, to liaise with the underlying customer and receive payment. It's a very different business to debt collection.

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Post by db48x »

cgriswald wrote: post #165
db48x wrote: post #160

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Any time a page does something stupid when you right–click, try it again while holding down shift.

Thanks for bringing that up. They've also hi-jacked that by making sure you can't hover over the actual img.

In Firefox, open the Page Info window (it’s in the tools menu these days). The image will be in the media tab.

Alternatively, (shift) right click and choose “Inspect Element” to open the browser dev tools. The element covering up the image will be selected. Delete it. With it gone, you should be able to interact with the image itself; right click on it and view it or save it.

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Post by dillondoyle »

Acutulus wrote: post #202
dillondoyle wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It would be pretty amazing for within the US USPS to not only search but find powdered drugs or pills. It's protected and they need a search warrant. Reasonable cause etc. Maybe if they already had an investigation on you and you were distributing. Customs on the other hand... Though if it's small volume they will often just send you a scary letter in the mail, especially if it's just sketchy looking pills. Or if the…

That's how it generally happens from what I understand. A local or isolated investigation is started and during the process they may uncover a reasonably high-level source of the product. Should they be lucky enough to get a warrant to scan an email server that has plaintext business contents, they might come across a trove of tracking numbers. From there the three letter agency will disseminate tips and intel to mor…

Lol way too much internet for me too. But I was making a substance abuse joke lmfao.

Re: Dark Web – Justice League

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Post by cgriswald »

db48x wrote: post #208
cgriswald wrote: post #165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for bringing that up. They've also hi-jacked that by making sure you can't hover over the actual img.

In Firefox, open the Page Info window (it’s in the tools menu these days). The image will be in the media tab. Alternatively, (shift) right click and choose “Inspect Element” to open the browser dev tools. The element covering up the image will be selected. Delete it. With it gone, you should be able to interact with the image itself; right click on it and view it or save it.

Page Info > Media does work. Inspect Element doesn't work great. It highlights the body tag. You have to go through a series of about a dozen nested div tags to get to the relevant image tag, at which point you can open the image link in a new tab or copy and paste it.

However, the point is that you shouldn't have to do any of this. Pinterest took a normal browser behavior, co-opted it, and moved it behind a menu even though it's the only function available in that menu.

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