So where are all the comments about daily mail not being trustworthy now?
Why isn’t this downvoted to oblivion when a story about false accusation of rape was? With comments all over the place on how daily mail is untrustworthy and had an agenda!
Is this part of that agenda too? Because that seems a bit weird IMO.
But second, keep in mind that for a lot of people, most companies are still responsible members of society; “pillars of the community,” and generally worthy of trust. It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because they’ve been propagandized into believing it.
Oh boy that is so true, I was laughing my ass off during the financial crisis about how people were shocked that banks are businesses trying to maximize profits like any other business.
They genuinely thought that banks were some sort of community institution that existed to help people with their finances, and not businesses that are selling products to make money.
Still even if people are so ignorant that they are unaware of privacy issues, they have chosen to be willfully ignorant, because this issue has been talked about non stop for decades. For nothing to sieve in at some point, you have to be a special kind of willfully ignorant.
Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled. Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
So to claim they were ignorant of Amazon possibly collecting and sharing their data is a bit far fetched IMO.
Question is why they bought a Ring camera in the first place?
There is no way they can have been unaware that these gadgets can be accessed from outside.
But it was only when the evidence was put right in their face they finally connected the dots?
So my answer is quite simple: Because they are stupid, and bought a sleazy product from a known sleazy company, and when they found out it was in fact as sleazy as could be expected, they figured that maybe they didn’t want to to be voluntarily surveilled anyway.
Yes where indeed.
SS (Schutzstaffel) and Gestapo are the closest that come to mind.
I hope this is more than just the pendulum swinging like it always does.
Of Course, the White house needs to have their own fascist paramilitary police force Schutzstaffel (SS) / Gestapo ready before the midterms.
Paywall.
But White house spreading darkness across USA and the world.
If you sink lower on the corruption index, it means corruption is higher.
They made the index that way to avoid misunderstandings. 🤡
Yes, and I commented on it, as being a tad old even if this isn’t c/news.
I know this isn’t c/news but still this story is 7 years old!
Well spoken IMO.
After winning WW2 America was a proud nation for more than half a century, and they had many things to point to that were good reasons to be proud. Obviously this got a boost again after the moon landings, which was not only a massive achievement, but back then NASA attributed it to the whole world, including the first words Armstrong spoke when he set foot on the moon.
Americans were the heroes of the free world, and we all admired their success.
It’s absolutely insane how this former pioneer nation has regressed to be scorned for their selfishness and disrespect for democracy and human rights. To a degree where even allies have to protect themselves against USA! This already was pretty bad with George Bush and the false intelligence used to invade Iraq, and the use of torture by Americans which was previously totally unheard of, and the use of Guantanamo Base for the GITMO prison, completely disregarding rights as either prisoners of war or civilian and human rights. This was in 2002, and USA still hasn’t managed or even attempted to repair that damage for 24 years now.
It must be at least as surreal for the Americans that never wanted this, as it is for the rest of the world.
Putin is probably ecstatic, because this is what he wanted, and probably a result of his political influence in USA.
And Xi is probably pleased that USA is looking to become a more “manageable” problem in the future, as USA is losing the power of having many allies working towards similar goals.
USA will never be the same again, and the world will never be the same again, and the winner is China. For Putin it is probably a Pyrrhic victory, as all his efforts will only result in the decline of Russia and possible the destroction of the Russian federation, which is the exact opposite of what Putin wanted.
The problems with USA now are far from just Trump, they are a result of many years of mismanagement, declining moral and disregard for human rights and international law and a failing democracy, and is rooted in the American people.
How to shamelessly shoot children probably.
I made a digital MIDI drum reader using Piezos on an Arduino with my wife some years ago, For that you need way more than 2 analogue pins.
I don’t see why newer Raspberry Pies couldn’t have something like 12 analogue pins, it would be amazing for many things, and it’s dirt cheap to make today. The ESP32 has 18 AFAIK.
In some ways ESP 32 has way better features than Raspberry Pi, but it is not nearly as user-friendly and it lacks audio. It’s also not a general purpose computer with the things that entail, but “just” an embedded system, although a very good one for sure.
I think it’s strange that they haven’t extended the 40 pin IO capabilities. For instance analogue IO would be very welcome for many purposes.
The message should have been “take accusations seriously” rather than “believe women”.
100% this!
The “me too” movement highlighted a lot of patriarchal flaws in the current justice system,
MeeToo is not all bad, it is fine IMO that they caused more focus on such problems, but it escalated too far IMO.
I’ve often heard stories of women being rejected at the police station already when they are received there.
Of course I’ve also heard women being treated with great care and consideration for what they have (likely) experienced, and that should of course be the norm throughout the system. But the point where a criminal case is raised should be based on the evidence, which unfortunately is a HUGE problem. But I just don’t see any alternative. And hanging people out publicly in media without evidence should absolutely be illegal.
I understand why many women never report it, but that has very much to do with how they are received at the police station.
DEI is nowhere near as serious, a white male will have the advantage in the next job he/we apply for.
The problem with false accusations being trusted without evidence, is that it can ruin peoples lives.
I know it’s not the PURPOSE of MeeToo, but I’ve seen this results in many cases. Especially people being fired on mere accusations without evidence. Sometimes on things dating back 10 and 20 years, and sometimes despite the accused had many women he had worked with vouching for him.
People (managements) probably don’t do this because they are evil, but because they are afraid that if they don’t kick out the “evil” man, they will face a shit-storm of bad PR.
We had a case here in Denmark, where such a firing of a TV host was based on a lawyer investigation, and after about 10 years in courts, it was final decided by our supreme court that the investigation was flawed and performed contrary to good practices. And the lawyer was later judged in civil court based on this to pay compensation.
But the man had not been able to find himself a job for 10 years because of that “investigation”. This was a DIRECT result of MeeToo which was revealed both the female management of the TV station and the female lawyer were strongly supporting. If that guy had ever said anything to anyone that could be interpreted wrong, he never stood a chance. Incidentally even the people interviewed who’s comments were used to fire him, claimed they had never dreamt of such consequences. So in this case it was not the women he worked with that made false accusations, it was in fact management and a lawyer that blew it out of proportions, and after being fired, he wasn’t even allowed to know what he had done wrong!!!
If you are inclined to check up on this, the guys name is Jes Dorph. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/jes-dorph-vinder-sag-i-hoejesteret-skal-have-millioner-i-erstatning
There are a lot of wackos out there, and they are absolutely not all men. Just see for instance Amber Heard.
Edit, I also edited this post a couple of times for added details.
I made changes to clarify, nothing else.
MeToo movement was about holding abusers accountable for their actions,
I have absolutely no problem with that part, but we’ve seen examples where it caused a reversal of the burden of proof, the mere accusation against someone, can ruin their life, even if they are innocent.
That’s the problem with holding the courts in the street as MeToo has often done, instead of in actual courts.
Obviously the reason MeToo exist is that the problem they address is real, and I acknowledge that women needs to be protected against that problem. But when what is considered sexual assault becomes 100% subjective, and a man can be accused of it, by merely taking an elevator with a woman, then we are at the level of insane. And this is not just hypothetical, an entire congress of hundreds of people was disrupted on exactly this issue. The woman admitted the man didn’t even approach her, but she was offended that he dared enter the elevator with her, as to her she claimed it broke her boundaries.
Men can’t be required to behave according to such paranoia of women. And for comparison, the man could say the same, that women shouldn’t enter an elevator with a lonely man, out of fear he might be accused of rape.
That is insanity. And is not based in any form of moral standard. Being psychotically paranoid should not be treated as the norm.
If the woman asks if a man could please take the next one, I bet 90% of men would respect that. In case someone doesn’t, it must be the woman that leaves the elevator, because it is her that has a problem using elevators normally.
Falsely accusing someone of rape is wrong, sure, and if that’s what the MeToo movement was about, you’d have a point, but… it wasn’t.
No it’s not what MeeToo is about, but their principles are so extreme, they demand that women be trusted on their word alone, and THAT has an enormous potential for the above result.
I’m afraid the PC ideology goes a bit too far on the left sometimes.
But as I see it, the right is way way more constantly overboard on NOT being PC, and is repulsive.
At least the idea of being politically correct is to protect the weak, unfortunately that too can go to far, when it tilts the burden of evidence so far it becomes reversed, and you have to prove innocence to be cleared.
That’s not the point, the point is that their new developments do not do for the community what the original products did.
This is not merely an accusation, it’s a statement of fact.