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[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 390 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Always keep a couple crackheads. Also, make sure you filter your crackheads. You want the ones who'll help you clean your garage for $10, not the ones who will clean out your garage for about $10 down at the pawn shop.

Promote a positive environment, help turn the crackden into a crackhome.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 58 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

You joke, but the crackhead hooker next door to me in Chicago would clean my place, top to bottom, for a 20 spot. Wouldn't dare steal anything because I was good money for a regular rock.

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 34 points 2 weeks ago

I've known a few like that. Why I joke about it. I knew a guy, if he could have kept his shit together, he coulda had his own damn shop. Dude could fix about anything mechanical, get it done quicker than some of the shops around the place.

Saw plenty of 'em working in construction, too. Keep it together long enough to make some decent cash, disappear for awhile, come back when they needed more. You got used to rotating faces, got to know which ones would try to screw you over. Too many times you'd see one come up alone and find out the buddies they had didn't make it through the last.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the thing about addicts. They're still people. Some get into a bad situation and know better than to fuck up the few good opportunities they'll get. Many will fuck themselves over for easy and quick gains. The latter group is why my wife would kill me if I hired an addict prostitute to clean our home.

I had smack and crack habits off and on for almost twenty years. Never stole anything (aside from occasionally shoplifted food). I always worked and paid for my shit. However there are an awful lot of people out there who use their habits to justify shitty behaviour, so yeah, I'd err on the side of caution.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 30 points 2 weeks ago (159 children)

You want the ones who’ll help you clean your garage for $10, not the ones who will clean out your garage for about $10 down at the pawn shop.

This guy knows his junkies.

There's a slight but very crucial difference.

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[–] idunnololz@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

rent has gone up 40% because the crackheads are now moving in

[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago

You have never lived in a Crack friendly neighborhood.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 143 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

You just have to control the rent by buying a gun and shooting in the air every other day.

[–] KomfortablesKissen@discuss.tchncs.de 67 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Then someone will steer their drone next to you, yelling "We have been monitoring you. Disperse immediately!"

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 42 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that's such a good tip. you should tell the russians

[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Shh lmao shhh no don't tell em

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

when I was in the army we were taught roughly how to shoot at a helicopter, but generally the idea was "you have a rifle (not a shotgun), you're not gonna hit a very fast flying thing, but here's ROUGHLY how much to anticipate with it if you have to try".

If we're not talking about long-range drones which fly at proper altitudes, and instead something one could even viably shoot at, then we're talking like 1000 smaller than a helicopter, but with similar speeds. Like the size of the armament on those drones is usually bigger than the drone itself.

I'm fine with us telling Russians to shoot at them, they're just gonna be wasting their (already waning) munition.

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[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago

Please use blanks and ear protection for safety.

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[–] Ledivin@lemmy.world 114 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Gotta fire some rent control rounds into the air.... it's all about #balance

[–] somewhiteguy@infosec.pub 32 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you're going to do this, use blanks or shotgun with birdshot. That way you're not raining lead on some unsuspecting person a mile or so away and birdshot is just small bbs that don't have a high terminal velocity.

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[–] Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca 72 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Now get a recording of a couple different gunshots and repeat the process. Problem solved!

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Recording?! What is this, amateur hour?

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The inevitable end to this is that you mount a gun on the drone.

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[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 53 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

just renewed my rent. It went up 30%

Flies a drone above anon

Drone speaker: "Womp womp"

[–] anindefinitearticle@sh.itjust.works 50 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's why you befriend them instead of scaring them away.

Until the fact that you befriended them gets you fired because it scares your coworkers.

[–] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 10 points 2 weeks ago

Or gets you robbed

[–] reallykindasorta 47 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I lived in a run down part of town a few houses down from a crack/coke distributor in college and once a friend locked himself out of the car. Before we could even panic someone popped out with a hanger and opened it in like 30 seconds. Crisis averted!

Also got pulled over on my own street regularly though (“you looked nervous”) and my dad almost got arrested when he was dropping off plants (cacti and flowers).

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

"You look nervous"

"Bruh I am nervous, all the time, everywhere."

[–] reallykindasorta 8 points 2 weeks ago

It’s because you pulled me over my guy

[–] Sylence@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Random_German_Name@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There are some radical left-wing neighborhoods in Germany, that try to keep rents low by shooting into the air with blank firearms

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[–] nevaseerius@sh.itjust.works 34 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck! That drone was just some chump? I'm telling the boys we got the block back!!

[–] pickman_model@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 weeks ago

No good deed goes unpunished

[–] AugustWest@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

This whole comment section is nuts. Who knew a green text about drones and crackheads could set off such vitriol filled discussions about gendered language, homelessness, and whether human dignity can be measured in dollars?

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[–] chetradley@lemm.ee 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

This one's for every friend who got taken off the streets
So the upper class could sleep, so the upper class could sleep
I'll miss the spraypaint and slashed tires.

-Pat "the Bunny" Schneeweis

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