Legally, in most jurisdictions, you report it.

Ethically, if there no ID or any identifiable infomation nearby, its very unlikely for the owner to be found, I think it’s fine to keep it. (If there is an ID, you should give it to the authorities.)

If it were any amount above $1000, I wouldn’t touch it, it could be drug money, don’t want to get caught up in some drug cartel bussiness.

Keep it mind, cops could pocket it. So if you really want to find the owner, you should probably try to find them yourself, at the cost of your time and potentially getting falsely accused of being a thief.

TLDR:

Options:

1. Pocket it
2. Give it to the authorities
3. Find the owner on your own time
4. Leave it where you found it

Your choice.

The big one with China is that culturally there’s no expectation that you treat a stranger respectfully

Not true. My parents, while strict and sometimes abusive to me, still taught me to be polite in public.

So you are assuming every Chinese person acts this way?

You could nitpick one example of a person in every racial/ethnic group doing something bad, it doesn’t mean that every member of that racial/ethnic group does that.

Bad news dominate headlines, do you think journalists will write about people behaving normally?

I was born in Guangzhou, PRC. I immigrated to the US when I was a kid. I don’t see many of my (ethnically Chinese) relatives behaving “improperly” in the US. Most of my interactions in NYC Chinatown and Ohilly Chinatown was fine. Not sure what you mean by “improper” behavior. Any examples of such “improper” behavior?

As a Chinese American, I think I behave just fine. Not sure why your question is phrased this way, sounds a bit bigoted. 🤔

Me: Wants to write a novel about a murder

Searches: “How to hide a body…”

Police sirens wailing

The invasion of Iraq was entirely based on false pretenses and the military was perfectly unified.

Iraq is filled with “scary looking” brown people with a different religion. And they have the excuse of 9/11.

Greenland tho? Yea good luck convincing people to fight the war.

Bad comparison.

One is an idiot.

The other is also a nazi on top of that.

I like the idiot more than the nazi idiot.

As someone have said, lemmy.world blocks VPNs.

But I’m curious, why are you sometimes using VPN, but other times exposing your real IP? Doesn’t that defeat the purpose, since your instance admins would still have your real IP, once you have accessed your account from your real IP, even once.

Either use VPN all the time, or just don’t bother. A half-assed approach doesn’t really do anything.

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1/3 of the networks would be unusable

If Verizon and AT&T does some bad shit, you have to basically stop using cell service. Not to mention, some people have basically only one provider that isn’t total dogshit.

Welcome to The Unholy Triopoly of America

I think realistically the only way to have a phone on your person and truly 100% know you’re not being tracked with it is by putting it in a faraday bag/cage

Nope. If the OS is malicious, it could use gyroscopes and the accelerometer to determine exactly where you are

What’s a TV?

I just Piratebay stuff and watch it using VLC on any device I want.

WW1, but I like 1917, I just like the idea of it being a “One Shot”

(not a true one shot, but good enough 🤷‍♂️)

Bīng Qí Lín Bing Chilling BingChilling Bing-Chilling

Younger people have probably never experienced it but good old snail mail (as well as in-person talks) is still private by default (that too is in the law, at least here, doesn’t l mean it’s above the law, which is fine, but at least it’s private). Also, it’s not tracked or algorithmically quantified and validated by anyone.

Contents are not tracked, the metadata sure is. They scan every envelope. They will know who sent a letter to who on which specific days and how frequent do you send letters.

[(verb) redacted][(name of high-ranking politician in the US Executive Branch) redacted]

Jobs are just for money. Don’t worry about the “contribution to society” propaganda. They are using you.

Its okay to feel like you don’t want to work, that’s fine. The oligarchs around the world baredy do any work and exploit the average wave-slave to fullfill their luxurious life. Don’t feel guilty for feeling that way. However, do realize that, while this capitalistic machine runs, you kinda have to perform “work” to obtain resources for survival (aka: “money”). It’s not fair, it’s the cards we get dealt with.

The real “contribution” would be to tear down the system of oppression and advance human rights, not feeding an arbitrary desire of the oligarchs to grow their assets. That is not contribution, that is being a willing wage-slave.

Life is not fair, its up to the people to make it fair, by any means necessary.

“A Riot is the Language of the Unheard” -Martin Luther King Jr.

“When peaceful revolution becomes impossible, violent revolution become inevitable” - US President John F. Kennedy

So you either resist, or you comply and get a job. It is what it is.

Committing a “crime” like shoplifting is a way of resistance, but it all depends on what your moral compass allows. Don’t kid yourself, the only reason why people don’t just rob the corporate chains is the fear of consequences (from the legal system).

So, if you are willing to take your chances and resist, go ahead. I’m not advocating crime, just saying that it is an option.

But even a life of crime is still technically a “job”, abeit an unlawful one.

You can’t really do nothing and survive. Either legal or illegal methods, you gotta pick one way to acquire resources.

Sorry if this is incoherent, I’m struggling with similar issues as you. Good luck.

Edit: TLDR: Just do the minimum possible to survive, don’t overwork yourself.

I like my monarchs cut.

Wait, wrong thread.

_{Viva la Revolutión}

Yea sure. I eat the banana peels too. Idk why people look at me like I’m a weirdo.

/s