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Walk into a store with cash. Buy a pre-paid debt card. Use that card to publish. That's anonymous, isn't it? Or does this site not allow that?

seydor 4y ago
not forgetting to steal the cash and car before going there, so they cant easily be traced
reaperducer 4y ago
Anything involving payment methods is where HN usually gets flooded with people from China and Scandinavia flogging the "cash is dead" horse and how wonderful their rainbows and unicorns world is now that absolutely nothing in they ever encounter requires the use of low-tech bits of evil legacy paper. Then someone like you brings up the value of anonymity, and it's all crickets crickets crickets.
- culi 4y ago
  I can safely say I've never experienced such a flood However I strongly agree with the need to support cash transactions and boycott stores that are "cash free". Most of the time it's just another way to make an environment more hostile towards houseless folks
  - VikingCoder 4y ago
    It's stunning how we've made it so illegal to be without a house.
    - culi 4y ago
      Truly. A houseless person was explaining to me the other day how cops can essentially kidnap them whenever they want, leave all their belongings on the street, and bus them to [[nearest city]]. The cops don't care. The legal system's specifically built to protect them and it's not like someone's gonna hire a lawyer sue even if they did have a legal case to make. I knew a few folks at this one encampment near where I live. The encampment was at the community cultural center's parking lot and the city had been trying to get rid of it forcefully but the cultural center managed to negotiate a deal that they'd have X number of months to peacefully find each member a different place. The main thing most houseless persons want is safety and that encampment was one of the few places people felt safe so there was a lot of pregnant folks and other vulnerable people. Eventually the cops came in illegally at ~5am (they'd tried to do this a few times before but activists were there to scare them away) and kicked everyone out. Many of them lost their wallets and were left with no id or documents or any way to access any benefits or even apply for a spot in a shelter (which were all full and famously shitty places anyways). We got a few of the most vulnerable folks a few nights at motels but didn't really have a budget for it. One of the motel owners found out that the motel was paid for under a different name than the person who was staying there and they locked them out of their room and kept their stuff Nothing you can do tbh. The people in this world that are most commonly robbed are houseless people

seydor 4y ago

not forgetting to steal the cash and car before going there, so they cant easily be traced

reaperducer 4y ago

Anything involving payment methods is where HN usually gets flooded with people from China and Scandinavia flogging the "cash is dead" horse and how wonderful their rainbows and unicorns world is now that absolutely nothing in they ever encounter requires the use of low-tech bits of evil legacy paper. Then someone like you brings up the value of anonymity, and it's all crickets crickets crickets.

culi 4y ago
I can safely say I've never experienced such a flood However I strongly agree with the need to support cash transactions and boycott stores that are "cash free". Most of the time it's just another way to make an environment more hostile towards houseless folks
- VikingCoder 4y ago
  It's stunning how we've made it so illegal to be without a house.
  - culi 4y ago
    Truly. A houseless person was explaining to me the other day how cops can essentially kidnap them whenever they want, leave all their belongings on the street, and bus them to [[nearest city]]. The cops don't care. The legal system's specifically built to protect them and it's not like someone's gonna hire a lawyer sue even if they did have a legal case to make. I knew a few folks at this one encampment near where I live. The encampment was at the community cultural center's parking lot and the city had been trying to get rid of it forcefully but the cultural center managed to negotiate a deal that they'd have X number of months to peacefully find each member a different place. The main thing most houseless persons want is safety and that encampment was one of the few places people felt safe so there was a lot of pregnant folks and other vulnerable people. Eventually the cops came in illegally at ~5am (they'd tried to do this a few times before but activists were there to scare them away) and kicked everyone out. Many of them lost their wallets and were left with no id or documents or any way to access any benefits or even apply for a spot in a shelter (which were all full and famously shitty places anyways). We got a few of the most vulnerable folks a few nights at motels but didn't really have a budget for it. One of the motel owners found out that the motel was paid for under a different name than the person who was staying there and they locked them out of their room and kept their stuff Nothing you can do tbh. The people in this world that are most commonly robbed are houseless people