• WorldsDumbestMan
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    If they ever ban renewables, keep them anyway and tell no one. Hide your bike set up, connect it to a power device directly.

    If doing local work like mowing the lawn, or any such job where you recieve money in cash, don’t fill in your taxes. Those taxes will just go to fund the next ballroom.

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    You can go to a big box home center and rent a battery powered angle grinder. You can then go back to that same store in the middle of the night, use said angle grinder to cut your way in through an emergency exit, and pilfer thousands of dollars worth of cash and merchandise. They’ll literally lend you the tools to rob them!

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    Couple of fairly unethical Craigslist hacks, first if you see an item you want and it’s in a city that’s farther away I will tell the seller I live in a city where my actual city would be a little closer to them. Essentially telling someone I’m driving a few hours to meet them but of course I’m not leaving my home city, while they travel a few hours . Second, if you send someone a really low ball offer from one account and then from a different account send a more reasonable low offer and chances are higher they accept or at least counter. Third, if you post an identical item to what you’re looking for at a lower price you can sometimes drive down the price of the actual listing you’re after.

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    Chocolate is toxic to coons and squirrels.

    Much more so if it’s left available for them near places you might not want them to be at.

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    Tell the truth all the time, be the most honest person everyone knows. That way when you really fuck something up they’ll believe you when you say it wasn’t you

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      Until it’s discovered and pinned on the regular fuckups that you’re just that much more methodical and that makes you much worse if not the main dangerous sociopath of the friend group.

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      No, it’ll backfire spectacularly, and I’ve lived it. When someone’s a habitual liar, people will get accustomed to them and nobody bats an eye. But if you’re always honest and one day you fuck up and they find out, word will spread, the rumor will grow, and it’ll create a bigger ripple. You’d have broken a realiance where people will feel the need to adjust their views on you.

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    I wouldn’t recommend it, because its an asshole move, but go into basically any mcdonalds and complain that you placed an order and it was missing (whatever you want). You may have to act the cunt here. They will just give you whatever you want for free. Sometimes you may need to escalate to a manager. They do not get paid enough to deal with it, and dont want your negativity affecting the other customers.

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      But if that complaint is based on a recent order, probably need to show them the receipt, and nowadays there are cameras everywhere for them to review the footage showing that you did receive everything you ordered.

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        Oh yeah its easy to prove you wrong but its likely they wont bother. They can look up on the till to see the time you claim to have placed an order, and maybe they’ll see an order similar to your claim, then explain to the manager and both go to the office and use the CCTV to see if youre there and then try and explain that to an angry guy who seems like theyre about to pop off and risk needing to involve the police and involve the local papers while everyone’s getting their phones ready for twitter and reddit to dissect your every microexpression - OR they can just give you a double cheeseburger and be done with it.

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          It probably doesn’t even need to be that extreme. Nobody’s gonna check cameras over this. I go back in when I didn’t get something. I’m polite about it. They’ve never asked for a receipt; they just get the item.

          One time I called a fast food place that had a great deal on pimento cheese because I repeatedly got a 15oz serving from them and kept getting shorted by a few ounces. I weighed it at home with the container the last time. I wasn’t rude, nowhere near angry, just had gotten to the point that I needed to bring it to their attention. They told me to come through the drive through and mention the manager’s name and they’d give me a free tub.

          You can get a lot farther in customer service by acknowledging that the person you’re talking to is trying to help while expressing things in a way that they can empathize with. You get a lot more through respect and thanking them for helping you.

          And if it’s a big corp, as my mother taught me, if you don’t like the customer service agent, hang up and call back.

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    Fake stupidity or ignorance, just a little. Otherwise, you risk getting people on their defensive sides (e.g., doctors, lawyers, architects).

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      I learned way too late in life that no one likes a know it all. Pretending you don’t know stuff makes people more willing to help you.

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        I gave up telling stuff to my co-workers. 90% of the time I’m actually dumb, so people now expect me to ALWAYS be wrong. So I made a habbit of just watching co-workers struggle when I know the solution.

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    Need a phone charger? Walk into any hotel, say you stayed here a while ago, and accidentally left your phone charger in your room. You’re finally back in town, and decided to swing by to see if they have a lost-and-found box. 99% of the time, they’ll just pull out a cardboard box full of chargers and let you pick one. No questions asked, no follow-up, no verification. They get left behind in hotel rooms all the time, so the hotel’s lost-and-found is almost always full of them.

    I used to freelance, and used this all the time when I was between gigs and just needed to chill for a few hours. If I had taken the train downtown and didn’t have my car charger, I’d just find whatever hotel was closest after my gig, and stop there. They’d let me grab a charger, and I’d pop over to a cafe to sit and watch TV/YouTube on my phone for a while. And then when it was time to leave for my next gig, I’d just leave the charger at the cafe for someone else to find later. I didn’t worry about keeping track of them, because I never intended to hold onto them in the first place. My car charging cable is from a hotel. My bedside charging cable is from a hotel. My desk charging cable is from a hotel. I haven’t actually purchased a USB-C cable in literal years.

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      I’ve tried this, and it doesn’t work. If you’re not average-looking enough, the receptionists will be suspicious of you and ask you to name your room number and who you were with. Just ask to borrow a charger in a pinch so you can get 5% battery or something.

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      I tried this. The hotels attached the room and date on the lost item, so unless you’ve got those they aren’t going to give you anything if you can’t match them. Maybe some others don’t, so worth a try anyway?

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      Yeah but how can you tell that you’re getting the right charger for your phone? No two chargers are the same; they have different wattage ratings and use different charging standards.

      If you grab any old charger without knowing the model number, it’ll charge your phone, sure, but not necessarily at its maximum possible charging speed unless you get lucky or take extra time to examine and research each charger until you find the right one. And I don’t know about you, but I’d feel awkward about pulling out my phone to Google random chargers while digging through a lost and found box with the employee just standing there. I rather just spend the money on a compatible charger designed for my phone’s charging standard.

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        Compatible isn’t what you think. Phones want to boast about how fast they charge, but that’s not really good for your battery. You may have a phone that does adaptive charging. It’s pulling way less than it advertises so that it can prevent depleting your battery capacity over time.

        If the plug fits, you’re fine. It will either charge slower, which helps protect your battery or it’s over what your phone requires, in which case your phone only pulls what it needs. You’ll be fine either way

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        Chargers have the wattage ratings printed directly on them. And the rating will simply be the maximum that the charger can provide. Wattage is pulled, not pushed. So if you plug your phone into an oversized charger, the phone will only draw what it needs.

        Just grab the highest wattage you see, and the phone will pull what it needs.

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          Caveat that this only applies to USB chargers. If you find some random non-USB, old-school type charger (like the ones with the round connectors) that fits your device, don’t plug it in until you’re sure that the voltage and polarity are correct.

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    Steal everything. All they care about is their money, so take it all.

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    If you really want to piss people off, treat every individual with compassion and dignity. Even (especially) if they don’t treat themselves like that.

    Also, corporations are not people, my friend. So use the above to help guide your social engineering tactics.

    Not unethical or illegal, but avoiding a barrier, if you have a problem that a company won’t solve using regular customer service means, spend time to find their email formula (FnameLname or FLname or FnameL @company.com) do some online searching, and then email your unhelpful CSO person and start to CC senior people in the company “to bring this error to their attention.”

    If the unhelpful CSO person hasn’t messed up, then it’s no heat on them and their supervisor will just say “ugh, just get rid of this guy,” and solve your problem. I’ve used this method a dozen or so times, works well.

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      When I have an issue with a corp and have to talk to a human I start with an apology to that individual.

      “Hey I have an issue with X about Y, but I have nothing against you as a person. You’re just trying to do your job and probably deal with a ton of verbal abuse. I apologize in advance if I get upset or use crude language during this call. Be aware that I’m not upset at you I’m upset at the company policies.”

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        This works so well. I’ve been on the receiving end of that, and I wanted more than nothing more than to help resolve their issue. I felt acknowledged and validated, and wanted nothing but to return the favor. Do this.

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        Having been of both sides of this situation, this is excellent advice and will get you much better results on average because you get the CSR on your side and invested in a positive outcome almost every time.

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          Yeah nearly every time they end up on my side.

          My latest issue that didn’t help at all with with a Verizon call to a CSR in India. She was a human robot reading a script. Didn’t listen to me at all just following her prompts. An AI would’ve done a better job.

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      This is called the corporate carpet bomb. And yes, it is often very effective because the upper management doesn’t like being bugged by small things like this. So they’ll often acquiesce just to get you to go away. And it usually only takes one upper manager to bother. Even if nine of them ignore you, the tenth will tell their underlings “hey, what’s the problem here? Why am I being CC’ed? Just fix whatever it is so I can stop getting emails about it.”

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        Having worked corporate c-suite level escalations this is absolutely the case. It was fun dressing down directors and managers well above me because I had a mandate from above them to hold their feet to the fire and get shit done.

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    When shopping, I like to make it seem extremely likely I am stealing to help poor people who actually need to steal to survive.

    For example, when picking up a soda, I furtively look to my left and right to make sure no one is looking and crouch my head down. I pick up things and make it seem like I may be putting it in a pocket at times before putting it back. When security guards say hi, I don’t make eye contact or reply back and put my head down as if hiding.

    I never actually steal and haven’t ever shoplifted anything.

    I have been kicked out stores many times for abnormal behavior, but never while stealing.

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        It increases the noise to signal ratio in their attempts to look for food thieves.

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        If you ever see someone stealing food.
        No you didn’t.

        I’ve seen shoplifters stealing granola bars or chips before. Not said a word.

        Stealing electronics? Fuck that person.

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          The distinction you’re trying to make is stealing luxuries vs stealing necessities. Sure, we could argue basically “fuck megacorps” and that’s debatable to steal whatever, but this is about us.

          If someone’s stealing the basic necessities like food, nobody saw shit.

          If you’re stealing a TV, that just makes you a thief.

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            There’s also people stealing (even reselling) necessities like toothpaste, deodorant and laundry detergent.

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              They’ll likely steal in bulk if that’s the case. If they do it over time, snitching on everyone hurts the people who are stealing for necessity. Be the good for people. Kindly, compassionately, and in a non-derogatory way let them know where they can get food, essentials, and services for free from a resource center. Don’t take their dignity.

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        Imagine if like 5% or so of people in a Grocery store acted like he does. Would be so much easier to actually steal something with security being busy all the time with the non-stealers

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          i’v never seen security care about theft outside of the egregious electronics and stuff like that, those guys don’t get paid enough to care about slippage

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            Do you live in an area with poor people and lots of shoplifting? Do you work in grocery store security surveillance? Do you work as a 711 clerk? Is this an area of expertise or are you just guessing?

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              chicago, plenty of places have guards but it’s all for showt/insurance (presumably). nearly all security you can see is performative, to make normies feel safe