I bought a pair of boots from a lokal store, then I moved and the zipper broke. I bought the same pair from Amazon and send the broken pair back.
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!
How isn’t this the top answer
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.
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.
I found you, Eric Andre! Piece of shit you are
Never commit a misdemeanor while committing a felony.
Sadly this is what it took to catch some of the mass murderers out there.
why what happens then
“Within 90 minutes of the explosion, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma Highway Patrolman Charlie Hanger for driving without a license plate and arrested for illegal weapons possession”
Let’s say for example you have a large amount of drugs in the car. You drive 10 miles over the speed limit and get pulled over. Now you’re a felon when you should’ve just gone the speed limit.
https://tidal.com/track/302939879/u
Sound track to this advice so you remember the most important thing.
This is what was going through my head when I made my original comment lmao
You go to super jail
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.
If it was 2014, I would consider you insane, like tinfoil hat tier insane
About that…no, there’s a specific EM proof textile that’s just a glorified Faraday cage that you can sew into your hat, around your wallet, and a phone holder. So that no one can track you if you need to disappear. As the CIA allegedly has something called ghost murmurr that can sense electrical impulses of your heart from 40 miles away, inside a cave.
Faraday cage should be without large holes. You would need to wear a burka
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
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.
Until it’s compared to 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.
This isn’t really unethical tho
Fake stupidity or ignorance, just a little. Otherwise, you risk getting people on their defensive sides (e.g., doctors, lawyers, architects).
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.
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.
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.
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.
… What do you look like?
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?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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He asked for unethical tips
Pirate everything, block ads, guillotine billionaires
They said unethical
Is that supposed to be unethical? Well I guess pirating everything includes things where paying would be fair.
I wish I could pirate food and rent and then I’d be all set!
Not a lifehack, just a reminder that legality is not an indicator of whether something is ethical
For the US: The Supreme Court has ruled that flashing your lights to alert other drivers of an upcoming speed trap is protected by your First Amendment rights.
Flipping off a cop is also protected, but that’s less helpful to others.
Why would you help someone driving dangerously and putting others at risk?
Going 5 over the limit and feeding money to pigs via ticket revenues is not “dangerous driving”
If someone’s doing 105 im not flashing them obviously
Wait wat, does the money go to the cops in the US?
Going 35 vs going 30 on collision increases chances for pedestrians to die by up to two times btw
But pedestrians rarely travel that fast.
Why is there a pedestrian walking across the road while there’s a car coming at them at 35 mph?
I guess it probably varies by location but 5 over the limit doesn’t usually result in anything either. It’s normally just people going significantly over that get fines.
Also it’s a limit, not a target. Plenty of roads have a limit that is too high to actually drive at safely too.
Something tells me you’re one of those who parks it in the passing lane going at or below the speed limit.
I don’t drive, it’s bad for the environment and costs loads of money.
You have a lot to tell drivers for someone who doesn’t drive. Consider that your perspective is heavily biased and likely inaccurate
Inaccurate? Its a fact that you are more likely to die or be seriously injured if a car hits you at a higher speed.
I do get where you’re coming from, but there are a lot of roads where the speed limit is artificially low (or temporarily lowered for no legitimate reason) for the sole purpose of collecting income from speeding fines
This part. I live in a rural area near a city; lots of people commute into town, and the main road there is flat, wide, straight, not residential, not even any livestock near the road, just open fields. The limit is 35, and half the people I know have gotten at least one $375 ticket for doing 40. It’s literally just a cash grab designed to take money from poor people trying to get to work.
US drivers do it regardless to help other drivers avoid getting unfair/unjust tickets. We’ve been ticketed 275$ going 1mph over the speed limit (it was down hill bruh) when we were 19 in the middle of no where Texas.
Also we no longer drive because we were never supposed to drive and we hate doing it anywho
Also we no longer drive because we were never supposed to drive and we hate doing it anywho
What do you mean? Do you live in NYC or something? I drive 4-6 hundred miles a week
We lived in nyc, Pittsburgh, middle of no where Maine and rn in Spain. In USA we either took the bus, rode a bike or walked. Can’t drive because of disabilities but did it when we were 16-19 because we were forced to while temporarily living in Oklahoma and Texas
Yeah such an American take lol
In EU I would be glad that anyone going over speed limit is fined, even 1kmph, these rules are there so drivers don’t kill pedestrians. If someone is afraid to be fined for going 1kmph over limit, just slow down a bit
Especially when you keep in mind that the speedometer reads higher than your true speed, so if your true speed is over you were clearly speeding intentionally.
Drive at 30 in a 20, end up killing a child with your massive SUV - which is another problem in its self…
Get your speedometer calibrated. It should read your proper speed
They’re helping the other drivers, not the murderous Nazi pigs.
Fuck tha police
ACAB
How adorably naive.
You’re a disgusting law enforcement shill. Cops have too much money as it is. If they’ve got time to sit on the side of the road and steal from us, then they must have cleaned up ALL the crime in the city, so their services are no longer required. Go be a school crossing guard.
Speeding cars kill like, so many people. Am I also a disgusting law enforcement shill now?
And if my flashing lights slow down somebody, so they don’t get a ticket, then it’s a great outcome for everybody but the cops.
Besides, nobody’s getting actively killed in my example, stop being so dramatic. I’m just flashing my lights in the neighborhood to alert my neighbor, and save him a ticket. That’s who I owe my loyalty to, not the cops.
Obviously, if it’s the guy who is always speeding through the neighborhood, I’m going to let that guy blow on past the cop. They deserve each other.
stop being so dramatic
disgusting law enforcement shill
🙄🙄
Don’t speed, don’t normalise speeding. Acab yes, but not because of speeding tickets lol
So maybe from your perspective, flash your lights when you think incoming traffic is going too fast?
Keep in mind, what you’re seeing is the combined speed of yours and theirs
Torrent everything. If it’s legal for a company to cancel my subscription then torrenting isn’t unethical.
Use the free tier if you are low-income. Privacy and security shouldn’t be for those with money.
If it’s legal for the Zuck to torrent all the books, it’s legal for me to torrent a few books.
Books are one of the few things I am more than willing to pay full price for.
Sure the publishers eat a lot of the money, but the authors don’t do too badly.
The very nature of a book (unless something is published as an e-book only) keeps it from being enshittfied like streaming audio and video services. If someone were to print an ad in the book, I could just rip it out and throw it away.
Books are one of the last places where you just will not see an ad or be tracked, or have popups, and other irritating “features”.
Books are good.
Books used to come with ads all the time in the early 20th century, especially cheap paperbacks.
I’ve seen some children’s books with popups.
Slightly more seriously though, I do have some books that have an advertisement for something else from the author or publisher.
I feel like being I am pedantic on the points here so I will make a point of saying that I agree with the spirit of your comment.
Alternative option is not to pirate the books and instead read the public domain ones that are just free. Project Gutenberg is a good completely legit source of free books.
If libraries didn’t already exist and you tried to make one now, you would be arrested and likely get pretty hefty sentencing for copyright infringement.
