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Do you have what it takes to become a geologist? (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a trans girl in Texas I am really really really worried about potentially being arrested

Okay, yeah, I can't definitely understand that.

I'm unsure as to how much of this I can talk about here, but what online stores have going for them is often safety and reliability. Unless the markets are "cashing out", they're usually safe.

("Cashing out" as in they have a functional market people use, then when it's been going for a while, they're decide to end it, they just stop relaying orders but keep the money that's in escrow, usually still get action for some days/weeks, leading to huge profits.)

That being said, you'd need a safe mailbox to order to, so as not to order drugs to your own home.

But yeah, IRL can be better, especially because you can then have someone who instructs you or acts as a tripsitter if you feel like you like to have one.

IRL can also be worse, because you don't really know what you're getting for a certainty. Unlike with online traders, because you can choose someone who has hundreds of positive comments and a good rating.

People honest don't know how easy getting drugs is in most parts of the world, which is what makes it hard for them, which in turn makes it easy for everyone who does know, because you can quite comfortably do your business in front of people who are totally oblivious to it.

But yeah. Don't get arrested in Texas for drugs as a trans-girl, I strongly agree with that. Hope Harris wins and the US could perhaps improve a bit. Stay safe, sister. <3

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the delivery part has always been what's worried me the most. I don't know anything about getting a secure mailbox because as I understand it, any delivery point that belongs to you can be traced back to your name. And the only options I have are my house and the UPS/USPS office for delivery.

Also yeah I'll be voting for this election, hoping for a Harris win too and also for Allred to finally kick Cruz out of Texas!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

as I understand it, any delivery point that belongs to you can be traced back to your name.

Pretty much yeah.

The defense I used here in Finland was that since you can't trace who sent it and there's no verified money traffic from me to a drug dealer, they can't really prove it's me.

If I knew your address, I could send you a bag of drugs. Would that make you a criminal? Even if you didn't want it? If it does, then shouldn't I just mail anyone I don't like in the US some weed, basically?

My point is I don't know how the laws about that sort of thing work over there, but I knew how they worked here, so I was at customs several times telling them I don't know shit about any drugs that came to my address. They knew that I knew that they knew that I knew that they knew. You know? But it didn't matter the slightest, because there was no way of connecting me to the drug order. I think I even bought the bitcoin from my account, but it's like if you had taken out cash at an atm. Ofc drugs are bought with cash, but factually connecting you taking cash from your account to you using it to buy drugs is something they have a hard time doing.

But yeah, I knew how these things worked here. They just always had to drop the charges despite it being extremely clear I was guilty, because no evidence. So I'm not gonna suggest anything for you, as the sentences are a bit harsher for all drug things in the US. Well, except for weed, since it's legal in some states. Even though it's still illegal on the federal level. Crazy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's legal in Colorado and I had some fun with it while I was there. But now in Texas even though I'm of legal age I cannot get access to weed legally (except for delta-8, but they're trying to ban that too). And that also means the quality of weed is much, much worse. The smell of good quality legal weed from the boutique dispensaries in CO are very pleasant and calming to me, but I absolutely cannot stand the smell or taste of the "skunky" stuff, which in my experience pretty much all illegal weed tends to be. So I don't have much interest in obtaining weed in Texas, especially because I don't plan on staying here. My current plan is to get a degree and get out of the country, ideally move tosomewhere in Europe. Not sure exactly where yet, but I've narrowed down a list with the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, and Switzerland currently at the top (and yeah ik weed isn't legal in all those places either but from what I've seen the punishments seem to be far less severe). So I'm not really chomping at the bit to get access to drugs right now, though it'd sure be nice if more things were legal here.