I have an autistic child exactly like that. Trust me, even parents prefer silence and peace. No form of disciplining works, I have tried everything there is. Now the only thing I can do is endlessly apologize to assholes like you who come and ask me to repeatedly silence my kid.
We once again gained unauthorized access to DARPAโs time travel program.
This time, we went forward to September 10th.
We can confirm the one-year anniversary will be tasteful, restrained, and focused entirely on remembrance.
Hereโs the footage we brought back:
It is worse with Amazon delivery who have outsourced delivery to local thugs. They refuse door step delivery, ask for payments on their personal gpay and never show up for returns. The only guys who deliver with some sincerity are the guys from swiggy and zepto.....atleast for now.
@iamankitpande When you said you guys started continuously meeting his wife, I thought this was one of those pornographic stories with a happy ending.
As a man of God, i will pray for your friend and his wife....and your future meetings. ๐
What a F*CKED UP society we Indians have created for ourselves.
Two men got into an accident when a policeman suddenly opened his car's door without looking at the traffic.
Instead of helping and asking if they were injured, the policeman started beating them up. ๐ก
@Cjsavage696969 Average colour = Brown. Colour cannot depict caste.
Language cannot depict caste, dame with accent and clothes.
In the west, whenever you enter a 5 star hotel, do they ask you for your last name? I guess not, it is the same here. No one cares. They want paying customers.
THE DOORBELL CARTEL
An Investigative Examination into America's Unexplained Porch Piracy Epidemic
By Jonathan Mercer
Senior Investigative Correspondent
For more than a decade, the United States has witnessed an unprecedented rise in residential package theft. Federal and state agencies have largely attributed the phenomenon to opportunistic criminals capitalizing on the explosive growth of e-commerce. The explanation has remained largely unquestioned.
Yet a growing body of independent economic analysis suggests that this narrative, while convenient, may omit the single greatest beneficiary of the crisis.
The residential smart-doorbell industry.
An eighteen-month investigation by the Institute for Urban Market Integrity (IUMI) examined insurance claims, retail earnings reports, patent registrations, neighborhood crime statistics, subscription revenue disclosures, consumer purchasing trends and over 212,000 commercial records spanning the period from 2014 to 2025.
Its conclusion is unsettling.
Porch piracy does not merely coexist with the expansion of the smart-doorbell industry.
It appears to be one of its most effective growth engines.
The Coincidence That Refuses to Go Away
In 2014, the United States recorded approximately 11.2 million residential parcel thefts.
By the end of 2025, that number had climbed to an estimated 37.8 million, representing an increase of 237 percent.
During the same period, smart-doorbell ownership expanded from 2.8 percent of households to 64.1 percent, while annual industry revenues increased from approximately $620 million to more than $31.4 billion.
Industry analysts have repeatedly dismissed this overlap as a statistical coincidence.
IUMI researchers disagree.
Their econometric model identified a 0.981 market dependency coefficient between reported porch thefts and premium residential surveillance purchases across 3,147 U.S. counties, making it one of the strongest consumer-behavior relationships observed in the domestic electronics sector.
Fear as an Economic Asset
Traditional industries monetize demand.
The security industry monetizes uncertainty.
Internal pricing models published by Harrington & Vale Consumer Analytics estimate that every publicly reported porch theft generates an average of $463 in secondary consumer expenditure.
This includes surveillance cameras, cloud-storage subscriptions, floodlights, video archives, smart locks, alarm integrations and insurance upgrades.
Collectively, these purchases create what analysts describe as the Residential Security Cascade, whereby a single theft influences purchasing decisions across an entire neighborhood.
The report estimates that one widely shared porch-piracy video influences the purchasing behavior of approximately 73 surrounding households within thirty-six days.
The Subscription Economy
While cameras represent the visible component of the industry, subscription services generate the overwhelming majority of long-term profitability.
According to financial estimates compiled by Benson Capital Research, recurring subscription revenue now accounts for approximately 68 percent of total lifetime customer value.
Unlike hardware sales, subscription revenue compounds.
Every theft captured on camera not only validates an existing purchase but reinforces the perceived necessity of continued subscription payments.
Consumer psychologists refer to this phenomenon as reinforcement through observed vulnerability.
Simply stated, fear renews itself.
The Missing Economic Incentive
Criminologists have traditionally viewed porch piracy as a low-risk property crime.
Economists ask a different question.
Who benefits?
Insurance providers absorb claims.
Retailers replace merchandise.
Delivery companies incur reputational damage.
Consumers experience financial loss and diminished trust.
Only one industry consistently records increased revenue following sustained public concern regarding residential package theft.
The home-surveillance sector.
Between 2016 and 2024, quarterly revenue growth among the six largest smart-doorbell manufacturers exceeded broader consumer electronics by an average margin of 412 percent in metropolitan regions reporting elevated parcel theft.
No comparable relationship has been identified within any other retail category.
The Invisible Marketing Campaign
Conventional advertising relies upon persuasion.
Fear requires no persuasion.
A stolen package viewed by five million people across social media platforms performs the work of an advertising campaign without requiring a single purchased commercial.
Researchers estimate that viral porch-piracy footage generates an advertising equivalent value exceeding $18.7 million per incident.
No production crew.
No actors.
No script.
Only a cardboard box disappearing from a front porch.
Operation Threshold
Former logistics consultant Dr. Marcus Ellsworth, who advised several Fortune 500 retailers between 2013 and 2019, describes the industry's growth model as "commercially elegant."
"The objective was never to eliminate fear," Ellsworth explained during an interview last November.
"It was to maintain it at a commercially sustainable level."
When asked to elaborate, Ellsworth declined further comment, citing confidentiality agreements.
Statistical Anomalies
Several additional findings continue to attract academic attention.
Residential camera installations increase by 19.4 percent following localized spikes in package theft.
Households experiencing one reported theft purchase, on average, 2.7 additional connected security devices within twelve months.
Approximately 81 percent of consumers report feeling safer after installing surveillance equipment, despite theft rates remaining statistically unchanged in monitored neighborhoods.
Behavioral economists describe this as perceived risk mitigation.
Investors describe it as recurring revenue.
The Question That Remains
No court has formally examined the relationship between the home-surveillance industry and the continued expansion of residential package theft.
No regulatory body has initiated a comprehensive inquiry.
Manufacturers categorically deny any suggestion of organized involvement.
Yet the economic incentives remain unusually aligned.
In commerce, incentive is rarely proof.
It is, however, often the first place investigators choose to look.