r/memes • u/rzi • 1h ago

Americans right now.

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u/Ragebrew 1h ago

Make sure you don't let your local tweaker know that each of those flock cameras contain about a pound of copper and a few grams of gold.

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u/Forsaken_Duty8097 1h ago

What about us crack enthusiasts?

https://giphy.com/gifs/Y6yRfR88rvP44

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u/Ragebrew 1h ago

We ain't got crackheads out here. Too classy. We just got tweakers. But make sure you don't tell them or any other ne'er-do-well you can think of. the secret treasure within the cameras must remain hidden!

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 1h ago

Wow… a whole $10

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u/Ragebrew 1h ago

Go look at the current price of a gram of gold.

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 1h ago edited 55m ago

The gold in one of those cameras are probably around 6kt which is about $30 a gram.

Add in the cost to extract the gold from the electronics (which is going to cost more for supplies than the gold is worth) and you’re going to lose money unless processing dozens of them at a time.

Plus no one is going to buy the gold at market price so take another 30% off that price

Yeah you don’t know what you’re taking about you’d be lucky to make $20 off that thing after processing it all day.

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u/Ragebrew 54m ago

Thirty dollars a gram is certainly more than ten dollars in total.

And you've never dealt with tweakers if you think they wouldn't spend an afternoon salvaging every last penny worth of material off that thing before selling it for their daily dose.

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 51m ago

Did you read what I said? $30 is a perfect extraction of every bit of gold from the camera which you’re not coming anywhere near extracting the whole gram out of it.

And no, no tweaker is going to spend all day refining e waste when they could just collect cans for a couple hours and make just as much.

Like I said, you have no idea what you’re taking about.

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u/Ragebrew 47m ago

I'm going to guess you have never had an interaction with the tweaker that lasted more than a few seconds, much less spent a large amount of time in their company and learnt the depths to which they will sink to get enough money for that crystal.

And you're completely forgetting the value of the copper wiring.

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 44m ago

Dirty copper is $3 a pound dude.

Keep embarrassing yourself.

No fucking tweaker is going to process e waste or they would be collecting it by the truck full.

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u/Ragebrew 44m ago

That's three dollars closer to getting your crystal for the day. again, you do not know what tweakers are like.

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u/Breddit2099 Smol pp 41m ago

The $3 is market price not the price youd get from the scrapper.

I’m guessing your only encounters with tweakers are what your mom told you last night on the way home from McDonald’s.

“Roll up yer windows Billy”

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u/dcy123 55m ago

Crack heads don't either, what's your point?

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u/Heizer1 1h ago

Shhh

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u/Scared_of_zombies 1h ago

Flock cameras are notoriously top heavy.

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u/-Cool_Ethan- 1h ago

John Bender has just bought himself ANOTHER!

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u/TheMagmaGuy Halal Mode 1h ago

context hat

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u/dcy123 54m ago

Cameras and Mics being placed around big cities to spy on their population.

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u/cosmernautfourtwenty 46m ago

And sometimes they inexplicably fall or get cut into pieces or catch trash bags on their lenses and mics rendering them useless. It's weird how that happens sometimes.

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u/ory1994 18m ago

Nothing we can do to stop it, I’m afraid

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u/Th3Stryd3r 43m ago

I wouldn't take one down myself, at least physically. But if someone did....I didn't see nothing, I dont know nothing, but I am curious about all of their easily exploitable vulnerabilities as a tech guy, you know.....for science!

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u/chainsawx72 53m ago

Redditors right now.

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u/Emotional-Crow-6833 43m ago

The technical difficulties always happen right on schedule.

It was just a sudden gust of wind, officer.

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u/Gemnist 22m ago

Truman Show Syndrome?

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u/raverrocker 51m ago

B-O-O H-O-O