Yeah but back then pictures weren’t common and you could just grow a beard, decide your name is now Thames Twice, and move to another town really fast away while still letting your title as chemist, since document verification was really hard to do unless it was for some bigwig (and even then you could sometimes get in). If you really want to sell the act he could learn an exotic foreign language like Swedish and say he studied in Sweden too, but had English parents and that’s why he spoke English so fluently. Most of proving why you are cage by showing you could do the skills you claimed you had.

That’s why charlatans could live a life of scamming.

For those wondering exactly what these are, I know of them because they were still pretty popular in the 1990s among Hispanics (which my family is). They’re basically essential oil perfumes that have supernatural aromatherapy beliefs attached to them. Basically the thought was the scent “attracted” or “emitted” some characteristic, such as attracting luck, or warding off evil. The ingredients were literally just alcohol with oils mixed into them you’d spray or dab on for the pricier stuff, or alcohol with synthetic aromas (and other more questionable ingredients) in the very cheap stuff.

That’s also why they have the weird names - to make them seem more foreign in this case but to say what they supposedly do. Bend-Over is known as “El Emperador” or “Reino” (The Emperor or Reign) in Spanish, implying you get the aura or a commanding figure. They chose Bend-Over because just people didn’t know the word “capitulate”. Scrub’s ad description doesn’t quite match its name but in other languages it translates basically the same and was supposedly used to wash off “the evil eye” or people’s bad vibes / jealousy they’d cast onto you (hence the picture of washing clothes with it).

Has No-Harra is the funniest misinterpretion they did - can’t tell if they mixed three languages or two. Harra means “harm”, but could also be mistranslated “haras” in Spanish which means “to do”, so “No haras” which means “you shall not do” - and that scent was supposed to be to prevent harm being brought to you, like curses and hexes. That one probably went through a game of telephone since “preventing misfortune” probably got translated to “having fortune” would be my guess.

But yeah, spiritual / supernatural aromatherapy has historically been a thing in multiple cultures. If you’re Catholic you might have even seen some sort of scent magic still used - the burning of incense at church. Just thought I’d share some of the history and culture behind these things.

Edit: Tl;Dr + extra context: these are “scent magic” perfumes taken from a poor misinterpretation of other cultures and religions that popped off during the age of occultism in the Victoria era

Shipping cost most likely explains the extra 20-40¢

I don’t think water touches water because it’s all water.

Otherwise you touching a person would make you two people, because the skin is touching skin.

Imagine how much of a criminal you have to be to end up arrested in a system where you have the advantage as a political criminal tho.

That’s how messed up the Republicans are

I like soggy over fried tofu tho…

Barranca is literally just Spanish.

To ask of you have any grapes

You can take the ducks you know

No one ever tells you this, but you can just take the ducks. Just like with the city pigeons. Just make sure you don’t take a government drone by accident.

Apparently he thinks data is like the ducks you find in the park

What country are you in and which one are you moving to? I ask this because computer part prices can vary a lot based on country.

Well, my parents grew up in poverty. And based off what they’ve said, 380$ net worth sounds too high, unless it’s an average. At least back then (even adjusted for inflation btw).

People really don’t understand how poor true poverty is, and why things from poor countries are so much cheaper. I have literally seen families that subsisted off of dump sites.

Also, children usually have 0 net worth for obvious reasons, so if we include children that stat is ready to reach. Especially since children are counted in the world population after all.

I think reputation is better than the virus total scan, since it wouldn’t catch malware broken up in different parts that are integrated into the OS.

I will definitely keep this in mind. Have you had any issues with the OS not having Edge? I thought it wasn’t easily possible without causing some issues.

Didn’t know these customized windows os’s were still a thing. I thought they did out in the windows 7 age

But like back then, how do we know these are safe and don’t have some kind of password stealing malware? Excluding Defender specifically makes it a bit sus

Recently I’ve found Fedora based distros better than debian (like Ubuntu) based ones, especially on “newer” hardware (https://pcpartpicker.com/user/Hezio/saved/#view=TwZfpg)

For gaming Bazzite literally installs everything you need for you except Proton GE, although Steam’s regular Proton isn’t bad either for most games.

My bad, you’re right. I thought it also excluded the software that made automatic onedrive support possible but apparently not.

We get Windows 11 N

I mean ageing technology (what the person might look like after 5 years etc) was also created for human trafficking victims, and I haven’t seen it really being talked about in many years now since it came out. Seems weird to base something on whether or not you’ve heard of it.

If the family doesn’t have a recent picture of the person without makeup, then yeah, this would be useful, since people can look pretty different without makeup. I’m the only one who has recent pictures of my wife without makeup for example, her friends and parents only have pictures of her with makeup since she normally does some when meeting them. She’s also half Chinese, so depending on how she decides to do her make up, can look way more asian or barely asian at all. If I didn’t have those pictures and something happened, the make-up pictures wouldn’t be as useful in searching for her.

Yeah couldn’t find anything. Guess I’ll keep searching it someone has a copy of EA somewhere