• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    I work in scientific equipment. It helps to focus oneself to occasionally imagine the box as being full of $100k in $100 bills, when I debate whether to leave it in the car or take it inside overnight…

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      … I said to myself as I meticulously removed all traces of the serial number.

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        Also, typically notoriously hard to fence, cause nobody knows what the fuck they’re going to do with a gamma ray spectrometer or whatever.

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          Ya and taking off the serial number doesn’t really matter when it’s less than 10 😅

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          Never again having trouble figuring out the exact welding wire needed for all the gathered materials in a project seems like an excellent perk by itself.