A couple weeks ago, Colion Noir did a detailed breakdown of the home invasion suffered by Amouranth (a popular Twitch streamer and OnlyFans model) and her husband Nick Lee.
I don't think these people did as well as you do. They have a ton of purchased "security" - high wall, security cams, alarm, a safe room, obstacles in the form of their hoarding tendencies, etc. yet at the end of the day were caught unawares in their own home w/ no early warning (am I understanding correctly they got in through an unlocked door?). They were targeted to begin with because of all the bling and complete lack of operational security. This could have gone very badly and it is largely dumb luck that it didn't.
Security isn't something you can buy at a store. To me this is a video of how NOT to handle personal security starting by advertising yourself as a target and thinking that your cameras and your wall and your safe room are going to protect you when you can't even trouble yourself to lock the doors. It is not that hard to make a typical residence hardened enough that breaking in buys you enough time to realize something is happening and respond, and I'm talking about regular people with regular budgets.
I’ve argued this fallacy under other names for years now re: guns, crime, immigration, and half a dozen other issues. And while I rarely make “X Tech causes Y Harm” arguments, I would argue it’s more prevalent than ever because of the internet.
That’s because it’s easier than ever to find SOMEONE in the broad community of the (?billions?) users online in support of your argument, whether positive or negative. Think of every “fan backlash” article you’ve ever read. Did you know that “people” hated the Ghostbusters reboot and were blasting the cast with misogyny and hate? I mean, look what NutBuster420-69 said on Twitter!
Ok, but…is NutBuster420-69 really a representative and significant sample of public opinion? Or were you looking for examples of shitty people who hate women-lead movies, and found them? Because I can find half a dozen extremists and/or idiots on the internet to support any idea, no matter how crazy.
Conversely, I’d argue it’s part of what drives all the hullabaloo about conspiracy theories, “misinformation,” and “hate”. Put simply, no matter how weird, how crazy, or how reprehensible your idea is…you can find a bunch of people on the internet willing to agree with you and affirm you. Not because there really are large swaths of the world’s population who believe in lizard people (or whatever), but because even 0.0001% of 346,790,860 Americans means there are 34,679 people in the USA alone who share your belief.
My theory - and I’ll freely admit it’s just a theory, I can’t back it up with any real research - is that 50 years ago, if you’re growing up in a farm town in Ohio and you told your friend you think a cabal run cooperatively by the lizard people and the Jews had a space laser they use to threaten the US government into submission, one of your friends or neighbors would look at you like you’re insane, tell you to calm the hell down, and you’d probably shut up about it and move on. Today, you’ll jump online and find at least >10,000 other people who’ll tell you that you’re absolutely right and the only reason no one is talking about it is because (obviously!) they’re just scared of the space laser.
I think of it as Crazy Rule 34: The internet has groups about it. No exceptions.
I don't think these people did as well as you do. They have a ton of purchased "security" - high wall, security cams, alarm, a safe room, obstacles in the form of their hoarding tendencies, etc. yet at the end of the day were caught unawares in their own home w/ no early warning (am I understanding correctly they got in through an unlocked door?). They were targeted to begin with because of all the bling and complete lack of operational security. This could have gone very badly and it is largely dumb luck that it didn't.
Security isn't something you can buy at a store. To me this is a video of how NOT to handle personal security starting by advertising yourself as a target and thinking that your cameras and your wall and your safe room are going to protect you when you can't even trouble yourself to lock the doors. It is not that hard to make a typical residence hardened enough that breaking in buys you enough time to realize something is happening and respond, and I'm talking about regular people with regular budgets.
Great points
I’ve argued this fallacy under other names for years now re: guns, crime, immigration, and half a dozen other issues. And while I rarely make “X Tech causes Y Harm” arguments, I would argue it’s more prevalent than ever because of the internet.
That’s because it’s easier than ever to find SOMEONE in the broad community of the (?billions?) users online in support of your argument, whether positive or negative. Think of every “fan backlash” article you’ve ever read. Did you know that “people” hated the Ghostbusters reboot and were blasting the cast with misogyny and hate? I mean, look what NutBuster420-69 said on Twitter!
Ok, but…is NutBuster420-69 really a representative and significant sample of public opinion? Or were you looking for examples of shitty people who hate women-lead movies, and found them? Because I can find half a dozen extremists and/or idiots on the internet to support any idea, no matter how crazy.
Conversely, I’d argue it’s part of what drives all the hullabaloo about conspiracy theories, “misinformation,” and “hate”. Put simply, no matter how weird, how crazy, or how reprehensible your idea is…you can find a bunch of people on the internet willing to agree with you and affirm you. Not because there really are large swaths of the world’s population who believe in lizard people (or whatever), but because even 0.0001% of 346,790,860 Americans means there are 34,679 people in the USA alone who share your belief.
My theory - and I’ll freely admit it’s just a theory, I can’t back it up with any real research - is that 50 years ago, if you’re growing up in a farm town in Ohio and you told your friend you think a cabal run cooperatively by the lizard people and the Jews had a space laser they use to threaten the US government into submission, one of your friends or neighbors would look at you like you’re insane, tell you to calm the hell down, and you’d probably shut up about it and move on. Today, you’ll jump online and find at least >10,000 other people who’ll tell you that you’re absolutely right and the only reason no one is talking about it is because (obviously!) they’re just scared of the space laser.
I think of it as Crazy Rule 34: The internet has groups about it. No exceptions.