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.

But he is ENTITLED to his wealth, he is obviously entitled to exploit others and to be extremely privileged.
You know that because he is rich, he is a higher class of being, a class that needs to be protected because it’s only fair that some people have all the privileges.

/s (just in case)

Yes I bet they have massive problems with Vikings roaming the streets and pillaging everything, as has always been their habit.

For fucks sake, I took the 3 first that Google showed me, I’m sure there are loads more.
As it is, there is zero reason to think the story is false.
They may be shit papers, but there are still rules about what is allowed for a paper to print in UK.
I puke that you are upvoted for just saying bwuah bwuah your sources are shit, while you admit to not even knowing one of them, and you show NOTHING yourself.
🤮 🤮 🤮
You are a worthless debater contributing nothing.
Just whining over the quality of 4 independent sources!

The 2008 is a pumped up 208, and is absolutely a small car, bumped up a bit from a sub compact.
The CUV is not for compact, it signifies crossover which means it has driving capability like a sedan.
The CUV is a pumped up sedan, the 2008 is a pumped up sub micro.

The ID.4 I own is a medium sized car. And the explorer is actually a bit smaller.
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/ford-explorer-ev-2024-suv-vs-volkswagen-id4-2020-suv/

Peugot 2008 / Ford Explorer comparison (Explorer is of courser the BEV version as BEV is 70% of the market here)
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-2008-2023-suv-vs-ford-explorer-ev-2024-suv/

The comparison between 2008 and ID.4 is not nearly as extreme here as the picture you show?
https://www.carsized.com/en/cars/compare/peugeot-2008-2023-suv-vs-volkswagen-id4-2020-suv/

IDK if one is an American explorer and the other European?
Looks like the picture you show is from the same site?

Edit:
Made the same link twice by accident. So I corrected links and added a bit of explanation.

To all the morons that disregard this because it’s the daily mail, the story is reported multiple other places:

https://5pillarsuk.com/2026/02/10/woman-jailed-for-falsely-accusing-exemplary-muslim-of-raping-her-after-drunken-night-out/
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38126742/mum-falsely-claimed-raped-good-samaritan/
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2167138/good-samaritans-rape-hoax-hell

3 other papers confirm the story:

https://5pillarsuk.com/2026/02/10/woman-jailed-for-falsely-accusing-exemplary-muslim-of-raping-her-after-drunken-night-out/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/38126742/mum-falsely-claimed-raped-good-samaritan/

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2167138/good-samaritans-rape-hoax-hell

The explorer is a mid size car. I USA it would go as a CUV.

Edit:
The European Explorer EV is a mid size car.

They don’t make reasonably sized or affordable cars anymore,

In Europe they do, and it’s still a reasonably popular brand despite Trump.

Absolutely, the Russian economy is doing very poorly disregarding exports may hold better than we thought.

You didn’t write that it was against the Ruble previously. The US dollar has definitely deflated when seen against other international currencies. So what you probably mean is that the Ruble has deflated more than the USD. But that’s irrelevant, since the export numbers are given in USD.

I think you mean deflated, as it has lost value.

https://tass.com/economy/2084701

Exports of goods from Russia decreased by $16.2 bln to $418.3 bln, while imports declined by $3.8 bln to $279 bln

That’s a trade surplus of $139 bln.

These are of course official numbers, so they may be doctored.

Why the fuck would a US congressman worry about monarchy?
I thought it was a no Kings reference, but the idiot is talking about the UK monarchy!
To which I say his opinion on that is completely irrelevant.

Being spineless is not corruption.

Very interesting article! 👍

The combination of lower oil prices and the oil price cap has done relatively little to dent Russia’s overall export earnings from selling goods to the rest of the world, which were $420 billion in 2019, $425 billion in 2023, $434 billion in 2024, and about $413 billion in 2025.

This is a huge surprise to me if true, I tried to check the numbers, and I couldn’t find anything to show them wrong, on the contrary the numbers I can find seem to confirm this?
This is very strange since we hear all sorts of Russian exports are collapsing. First and foremost oil, which is now worth half what it was 4 years ago, natural gas to EU is at most a fourth, and was considered a major source of income for Russia, but also I’ve heard coal to China has declined steeply, and of course their weapons export is almost halted as they need the weapons themselves.

Those are all major export sectors, so how can it be possible for Russia to maintain stable export numbers?

Mark Tramo:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ucla-professor-profile-removed-university-201231282.html

UCLA professor’s profile removed from university website after appearing in Epstein files

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.