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  • As far as I last checked, yes, still possible in the US.

    Stores like Walmart sell the phones and phone cards for prepaid service and all that can be paid with cash which doesn’t require ID.

    If nothing else, you can buy a second hand phone from online places for meeting people or wherever and get a phone card for cash and neither doesn’t trace back to you either.

    Of course this is likely because everywhere we go is covered by cameras so you’re never truly anonymous if someone is determined enough.

    If you saw the show Better Call Saul, this is what Saul was doing when he sold phones to people from the shop he worked at.



  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.comtome_irl@lemmy.worldMe_irl
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    3 months ago

    I still remember my group of friends in elementary school back when Pokémon was getting very popular.

    One of the kids was so genuinely nice, a bigger kid who was obsessed with both Star Trek and the Honey I Shrunk series of movies. But he would talk about Star Trek a lot more. One day he was talking about it, probably a new episode of New Generation and one of my other friends turned to him and said, “Can you shut up about Star Trek? We’re all into Pokémon now. No one cares about that crap.”

    You could just see the look of sadness on that kid’s face. I hate that I didn’t speak up for him. Everyone else went silent too. Then he started talking about Pikachu and trying to relate to Pokémon instead of what he wanted to talk about :/

    He was just excited and trying to connect with the people he felt close to…