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[–] [email protected] 173 points 8 months ago (6 children)

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What the heck is this for and what does it mean?

[–] [email protected] 128 points 8 months ago (16 children)

It's the illegal prime number used to decrypt DVDs.

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[–] [email protected] 109 points 8 months ago (6 children)

How to pass/invalidate a lie-detector test.

They are not considered admissible evidence in court (but the criminal justice system still use them to a degree..), and they can be interpreted with intentional bias, so I think it's fine to share.

One of my psychology professors told me that if you hide something like a sewing needle in your shoe's insole, you can ever so slightly apply pressure so that the poke causes a physiological spike. They monitor for movement, so it has to be very minute. The goal is to do this on every control question so that they cannot establish a baseline and have to give up.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The best way to invalidate a lie detector test is to not take one, because you can not be forced to take one unless you are applying for a job to the CIA.

Phrenology is more legitimate than polygraphs, and Prenology is nothing but bunk hokum.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I had clients in federal probation whose freedom was dependent on the results of annual polygraphs. Refusal was considered a fail, and they'd be shipped back to FedMed or prison. Inconclusive results were also blamed on the clients, and would count as a failed test.

Was total bullshit, especially given the level of function and serious psychiatric symptoms and diagnoses of my clients.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh, right.

For one blissful moment I forgot that America was a festering, infected pustule on the ass of society.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I remember seeing some cop show a long time ago where they couldn't figure out how this guy kept screwing up their lot detector tests they were forcing him to take. They found out he was putting a tack under his big toe and using this trick so they scheduled him for another test, but they kept moving him from one building to another looking for the room they were supposed to be in, forcing him to walk a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I heard you can just pucker your butthole too and this will affect the readings on the detector

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I've heard some of the more advanced bullshit detectors have pressure pads that the bullshiter sits on to measure how much actual shit they are holding back while taking a bullshit test to detect the actual bullshit, but that might be bullshit.

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[–] [email protected] 104 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 101 points 8 months ago (16 children)

You can infinitely go around and around a roundabout or a clover leaf interchange.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 8 months ago

Look kids, Big Ben, Parliament

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 8 months ago (14 children)

Juries can nullify any charge based on their own discretion.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Knowing this is how you get out of jury duty

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[–] Corkyskog 85 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's possible to bioengineer yeast to turn sugar into morphine.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately, I am allergic to morphine, wake me up when they can turn sugar into Dilaudid.

Or better yet, morphine into fully baked sugar cookies.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The Anarchist's Cookbook is full of bad information, you should use the US Improvised Munitions guide instead

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 8 months ago (8 children)

There are free private, and generally better-working versions of almost every software program. Including, operating systems, social media, email, telephone, etc

[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Blender 3D, Krita, and Gimp have been the pillars of my creative life. And since last year November I've been running Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago (5 children)

You can resist an unlawful arrest. But good luck with that in the real world.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 8 months ago (6 children)
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[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 months ago (15 children)

You can legally create, own, and use your own flamethrower in the majority of the US.

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How to make controlled substances.

It's not illegal for anyone to know, it is also technically legal to make and possess if you have the correct licensing for some substances, but it is illegal to synthesize them.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (3 children)

What's the difference between making and synthesizing here?

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (17 children)

That you can leave the interrogation room any time you want if you're being questioned for a crime.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

What is the best script to deal with this?

  1. Am I being detained?
  • yes: (I want to Speak to lawyer) --> 1
  • no:
  1. Am I free to go?
  • yes: Go
  • no: --> repeat 1

♾️

No need to go outside this script?

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (17 children)

And then you shut the fuck up

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

speak very basic and plain. don't use coloqualisms, don't use slang, etc.

One guy told a cop "I want my lawyer, dog", and and they never got him one saying there were no dog lawyers, and the courts..of course, backed up the police, in clear violation of common sense and decency.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Making amateur rockets and pipe bombs are basically identical -- for a rocket, one end of the pipe is open. There's a vibrant amateur rockets community nevertheless.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Not really, the whole point of a pipe bomb is for the reaction to happen as fast as possible. This is sub optimal for rocketry.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

You can request your trial to be done by mail, yes this is legal and if you truly want to get out of a speeding ticket or any other tickets or fine. Just do it the trial by mail and always postpone it for a greater chance of the officer just letting you win it. The source for all my information is from a lawyer, also check your local laws or state laws about this, thank you maggoty as it depends.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfwL6P2bc2s

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Ethyl Mercaptan, used as the warning odor for natural gas/propane, is not regulated.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (30 children)

Tails OS. I went to search what it was and read the Wikipedia article. Guess I'm on a watch-list now, cause of my dumb curiosity lol

From Wikipedia

In 2014 Das Erste reported that the NSA's XKeyscore surveillance system sets threat definitions for people who search for Tails using a search engine or visit the Tails website

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

Probably either research chemicals or jailbreaking tech.

As for the former I fell down a rabbit hole reading about research chemicals on some subreddit and hearing people's reports.

Jailbreaking doesn't feel as illegal, I'm not in Japan, but it makes me feel like a badass early 2000s hacker helping my friends with their 3DSs and PS3s and seeing their reactions.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago

Just knowing the history of policing feels illegal. How they normalized this vile paramilitary - essentially institutionalized fascism - right from the start in the UK and the US sure as hell isn't something they will ever show you on Law & Order.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How to make drugs.

How to make explosives.

"1001 ways to kill a man."

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago (3 children)

How to construct systems which are used for civil applications but can easily be turned into weapons.

Or the good old question of science and responsibility: do you use nuclear fission to create energy or to kill an enormous amount of people?

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[–] gravitas_deficiency 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (6 children)

Knowing how to make explosive whether chemical or otherwise

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