Which is why it's good to know local laws, as I said. :)

Unlawful detainment sure is a crime where I live, and that applies to stores trying to forcibly keep you in. If they're not law enforcement and you're not hurting someone else, they're not allowed to touch you. Where you live, maybe not. It most certainly does vary by state/country/province/whatever.

I previously posted info on specific stores on /r/shoplifting, and I think it's a good thing to do. It doesn't matter if it somehow 'lets people figure out what town you live in' - your own opsec is on you. Don't be discouraging people from sharing useful information with others due to your own paranoia. If you want to keep your info to yourself, that's on you, but I think the reason people are giving you such a negative response is that you're tacitly making LP's job easier by denying your fellows valuable and helpful information.

I find I can only get so angry before I sort of just burn out internally for a while. I don't try or intend to ignore any issues or shoot for willful ignorance, but sometimes I just need to turn off and have some downtime. After that, though, it's back to the fight with all guns a-blazing.

I wrote an in depth guide to this somewhat recently. Check my post history for it.

Oh. big chains in the UK certainly are trying to cash in on 'Black Friday', just look around.

Then I don't even want to see what happens if we get an enema up in here.

There is no why. It's why Absurdism makes sense.

This is a very bad idea, then.

Canada's Criminal code, Section 351(2), also covers "Disguise with Intent", whereby "Every one who, with intent to commit an indictable offence, has his face masked or coloured or is otherwise disguised is guilty of an indictable offence and liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years".

This 'law' is a steaming pile of bullshit passed to suppress protesters, but it exists.

It's only a matter of time, Reddit is making the 'rules' stricter and stricter until anything that doesn't meet the line their advertising sponsors agree with will be forced out.

Well, first, they'd have to catch you. And then they'd have to suspect you've done it before. And then they'd have to review weeks or months of video, which is no small task. So you're likely fine, though I have heard of places letting people steal, but noting what they steal, so they can get them once they pass the felony level - though I doubt a drug store is gonna go to that length with someone swiping energy drinks.

Self-Checkouts here usually don't take cash for this reason. If you use debit/credit, you're likely on video and have linked personal info to the time-stamp, so... if they ever review that video, you're fucked.

If you can pay cash, you should be okay.

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Yeah, especially closer to the Christmas holidays. It gets to be a mad-house in most of the bigger stores around those times, and everyone is in bulky everything. LP are on high alert, but really, their job is near impossible in conditions like that. I successfully walked out of a big-box store with a 40" TV on Boxing Day one year (day after Christmas in Canada, it's like our 'Black Friday') due to all the chaos. While I don't actually recommend doing THAT, concealing smaller items in similar conditions will be trivial.

http://xfmro77i3lixucja.onion/ - The Imperial Library of Trantor (you'll need the Tor browser to access Onion sites) has a bunch of high quality pirated eBook content for download.

Well, at that point, fuck 'em. Ignorance can be understood and solved through education. Idiocy cannot.

I think part of the issue is due to how it is presented. At face value, someone (who has white skin) seeing comments about 'White genocide' - which is commonly used as a joke - for the first time will take it literally. They don't understand that White isn't a race, and that 'Whiteness' is a social construct. They think that it is a racist attack on them due to their skin colour. (The irony of that is a whole other topic). I don't have any solution to that, and I'm not going to go around telling oppressed people how they can and can't joke about their situation, but it helps to understand why people react the way they do.

I'll pay for things made by indie devs / small bands that make music I like / etc. The minute it's produced by a publicly traded corporation, or large private entity, I view it as immoral to pay for it, as I feel those kind of organizations are antithetical to the individual and ought to be suppressed as they no longer serve humanity but are instead a way for the greedy to oppress the poor without it affecting their consciences (i.e. "The Company did that, not me, I'm not a bad person.)

Fuck em.

Just be sure to find out what value constitutes a felony in your area. I don't recommend going over that, for obvious reasons.

Amazon (if they are the seller) will require a signature for a $400 order. Any competent 3rd party seller will, as well. If you're outside the US, you could try the slowest shipping option from a 3rd party seller, and hope that they ship via USPS (tracking generally doesn't work properly on USPS' site once it leaves the US with certain shipping methods), but that's hit-or-miss. You'd probably have better luck saying it arrived, but was damaged. Again, though, you may or may not succeed. There's no hard and fast for guaranteeing a scam will work, it's more about trying it and seeing if it will. You'll need to be able to live with the possibility of just being out the money in the end.

I can certainly see this being the case, for sure. I haven't tried middle of the night calling myself, but I tend to rely more on the social engineering side of it, so I prefer someone who speaks English well and whom I can build a report with. I have even had a CS person decide to 'take charge' of my case, and monitor my claim and call me back with updates over the course of several day, until the process was complete and I got my refund. This was mostly due to how nice I was to them and how upset/bothered I was with my 'experience' with the 3rd party seller.

What? No, you go into your orders, and select 'File A-to-Z claim', the 'email' is all handled via webforms on Amazon, and is all done on their site. Please note that you cannot file a claim until AFTER the expected delivery date has passed.