Remember kids batteries can be charged with solar and can power fans and LEDs
this post was submitted on 06 Dec 2025
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Why do people always say “be me” on these things?
Green text usually follows "be me" with some indication of gender and age. Eg Be me 51m.
It's from 4chan. The format is an early form of brainrot.
Because that's step 1.
No, I mean why the choice of words. I don’t understand it…like, stylistically I guess I’m saying?
It’s a 4chan thing or green text thing.
Green text is a 4chan thing
Kinda like asking why do they say skibidi toilet? Its just stupid nonsense, don't over think it.
You should strive to be me because I'm better than you.
There a saying-- only do one crime at a time.
This guy was growing weed and doing just fine at it. Only because he decided to steal power also, he got caught.
Eh, doesn't apply anymore. Only way to have any privacy anymore is crime.
Is 14
Calls power company
Sure
I mean I tried calling the ISP in my teens. They wouldn't talk to me and left us without internet for months. They would only talk to the bill payer, who was in Afghanistan at the time.
You are calling about a billing issue when ypu are not the account holder. You were not old enough to negotiate a contract so they could not help you.
The OP in the green text was calling about stolen power. That shouldn't require talking to the account holder.
It wasn't a billing issue. It was being paid for but they broke it after digging up the road.
They still need an adult to negotiate with in that case. They wouldn't in the case of stolen power though the police would be the proper authority to contact
Yeah children can't do that. I just handed one my phone with the number dialed, and the screen didn't recognize. She still has my phone and is starting to scream and curse at it. Maybe it works if they press the button with a stylus?
I got in a fight with Verizon and the FCC over bootloader locking when I was 15, some of us just have nothing better to do than be a complete and utter pedantic menace as kids
I think kids being pedantic menaces are a very important part of society. most of the times it's over good things, but adults don't have the time or drive to address it.
Awww did mum and dad not let you use the phone? 😭
Anyway the correct response is fake+gay. If you analyze it you've already lost.
By providing the accepted meme response, you are participating in the brainrot
I'm fine with that
I don't care about people growing weed and making some moneys.
But if you're going to fuck up the electricity net or even stealing it from your neighbors, you're a fuckhead.
Nowadays you can just use LED lights and a heat pump and be extremely stealthy. Maybe even put some solar panels.
yep, do what you want, but don't fuck things up for other people
I mean the old saying goes "don't shit where you sleep" meaning if you're going to be a criminal don't make your neighbors dislike you.
I've heard stories of drug dealers and gang members being some of the best members of their hyper-local communities because they take this to heart. Your neighbors are the most likely to suspect something is off, if you kill them with kindness and generosity they're a far less likely to be nosy into your personal affairs and get you caught
I'm assuming that comment is about AI data centres?
It isn't but feel free to notice the obvious similarities.
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Dude got mom's smoking buddy arrested
Yeah grower Steve probably would have been totally sympathetic to the Minecraft plight too, base d on the stoners I know
Kid's not thinking big enough. Now that they have evidence, they can blackmail the neighbour into buying them a better computer and a UPS
that's the problem with kids in context of power and the state, it's very easy to bribe them and they don't have a bit of loyalty.
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Should've just called the power company and had them assess a new transformer
A power company willingly looking at increasing residential capacity or fixing issues that can't be blamed on the homeowner? HA
We had a bad transformer that took 6 months of constant nagging before they would even send a tech out, and they still threatened to charge us for the visit. That guy turned white as a ghost when we told him the issues we were having and that the transformer was the one next to the neighbor's massive nearly dead tree. The internal bars had melted and he said it could have exploded at any point, easily burning at least that neighbor's house down, and probably a good chunk of the neighborhood since it was a dry desert climate.
My dad ran a business out of our garage when I was a kid. Big machinery. And whenever he'd get into to something tough and bog the machines down, the power in the house would sag so much the lights would brown out and the picture on the tube tv would get real small. This happened all the time, for YEARS. We'd called and complained so many times. Every once in a while they'd send a tech out, he'd plug into the meter socket on our house with a tester, then deem the values appropriate, and leave.
We were like no seriously, when there's a real heavy load it's bad. Nope, it's fine, blah blah.
For YEARS.
Then one day the breaker on the pole blew, and they came out to reset it. And when THIS lady came, we begged her, please, something is wrong, please look closer. So she climbed the pole, low and behold the transformer and wiring was all roasted up there. I forget what the explanation was, but they needed to replace the whole thing.
We never had a problem after that 🤷♂️
Yeah after the previous story, about 6 months later they came to upgrade basically the entire grid section in our area. We had a talk to the engineer and she had been able to use our section as justification for getting some sort of brand new and very expensive testing equipment.
Our neighborhood was built in the early 1960s. So at the time it was about 50 years old, and the electrical usage of homes then was vastly different than it is now. Unlike modern homes with power outlets every 6 feet or so on every wall, we have two outlets per room, if we're lucky. She seemed very happy that we had pushed the issue because apparently that equipment had been requested for years before she finally had a real world justification that management would finally approve.
That tracks, corporations would rather their customers die than provide them the service they pay for.
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