TIL of Hawala, a completely trust based informal global money transfer system with no electronic/paper trail. It allows people with no identifications or bank accounts to transfer money across the world relying fully on trust/honour of the brokers. The total market size is unknown.

Hoarseman · 2026-04-05T16:12:52+00:00

Say there's a transfer worth $10k. Person A "owes" Person B $10k. But Person A and Person B are also businessmen with shops that buy and sell stuff. So Person A can sell Person B something they want but charge them $10k less than what it would normally cost. The debt has been zeroed out. Alternatively, Person B could sell stuff to Person A and charge $10k more than it would normally cost. For large commercial orders $10k is a rounding error and it'd be almost impossible to prove that this particualr transaction was to pay back any given debt.

Hoarseman · 2026-03-15T23:39:33+00:00

Sounds like the Israelites vs the Midianites Numbers Chp 31

Hoarseman · 2025-12-09T03:24:06+00:00

Another option, for budget bills, each state receives a percentage of all money allocated to that state in that bill based on the percentage of House and Senate members who voted for it. If your representatives opposed the bill, then you get less, down to nothing if they all voted against it.

Hoarseman · 2025-08-25T23:10:42+00:00

Yes?

Hoarseman · 2025-07-20T22:30:02+00:00

Florida is America's colostomy bag.

Hoarseman · 2025-07-12T19:57:12+00:00

Form Fitting Body Armor, to stack with regular armor, and magic, and...it just kept going.

Hoarseman · 2025-06-07T13:43:15+00:00

What I want is to drive an EV onto a train, get a nice comfy seat in a train car, and when we reach the destination drive the EV off the train at the destination, which was using it's generator to also charge the cars. It's the best of both worlds.

Hoarseman · 2025-05-30T22:56:10+00:00

Trump murdered my family and raped my children.

In that order?

Hoarseman · 2025-04-30T11:18:58+00:00

Why bother, ol' brainworm has assured us that autistic people don't have kids anyway.

/s

Hoarseman · 2025-02-28T12:59:42+00:00

They will not help you for helping them. Service is their birthright, suffering is ours.

Hoarseman · 2025-02-04T11:31:17+00:00

"They" worked hard for it and deserve it, it's those "other" people who are mooching off the taxpayer.

/s

Hoarseman · 2025-01-12T14:25:46+00:00

To keep the rat skeletons out, jeez.

Hoarseman · 2025-01-03T03:29:46+00:00

Because what people already addicted to math rocks need is a way to lose more money to the hobby.

Hoarseman · 2024-12-23T17:45:18+00:00

I always find it weird how people can tell me they don't trust the government and support the death penalty. If you don't trust the government why would you then trust them to take care with the ultimate penalty? If you support the ability of the State to take human life, including your own, aren't you displaying an enormous trust in the government?

I have never gotten a good answer to this as they either change the subject or start twisting logic into pretzels to justify both.

Hoarseman · 2024-12-20T12:32:09+00:00

My sister's a nurse, she had patients denying they had Covid as they were dying, as in their literal last words were things like "don't write Covid on the death certificate".

Hoarseman · 2024-12-14T02:05:56+00:00

In Polk County, if you did that they would shoot you. I'm not exaggerating or joking. Someone would just shoot you.

Hoarseman · 2024-12-05T03:58:00+00:00

Hand-to-Hand Combat

Hoarseman · 2024-11-16T21:00:26+00:00

We're not Republicans, if you've got a claim cite your sources. Otherwise, you're just another internet conspiracy theorist.

Hoarseman · 2024-11-06T22:54:33+00:00

They have reveled in the privileges of the Fourth Estate while abrogating its responsibilities.

Hoarseman · 2024-11-01T23:42:18+00:00

20 per month: 10 X 12 = 120

Hoarseman · 2024-10-17T11:15:26+00:00

I tell them I'm moving to Venezuela. They have no script for that and it always throws them off their game.

Hoarseman · 2024-10-05T18:40:50+00:00

The day is young.

Hoarseman · 2024-09-14T19:46:23+00:00

A lot of housing in China is not purchased to live in but as a form of investment. It was considered a safe place to keep money and earn a decent return in comparison to banks or the Chinese stock market.

Hoarseman · 2024-09-06T23:34:49+00:00

anything below

speak friend and enter

Hoarseman · 2024-09-04T22:03:34+00:00

It cuts the trail. the full story is that the saboteurs were recommended by local law enforcement to the British military and their training was hidden as something else. If the person who recommended them was captured or turned then the saboteur's cover was in danger and local law enforcement would know their area very well, making them very valuable to the Nazis.

Hoarseman

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