Yeah, okay—of course you can’t compare the “thief-infested” U.S. to other countries. As a business, I’d definitely require proof photos there, too. You’d have to rebuild the entire U.S. from scratch. Here where I live, the drivers are happy when I meet them halfway so they don’t have to go all the way to my front door. And if I can pick up packages from my neighbors while I’m at it, they’re really happy.

My sympathy, however, has its limits. If the U.S. would just stop causing hundreds of billions in damages in Europe every year through industrial espionage, I’d have more sympathy. But I basically never hear any criticism of this—not even from U.S. citizens (at most, after comments like these, but you can’t really consider that their own criticism—it’s just agreement).

Are all the people who use online AI models really that clueless? It’s been clear from the very beginning… just like when people acted surprised that they were tracking us… “Whoa, they’re tracking us—how can they do that?” when it’s their business model and every conversation is future training data…

1. Don’t order
2. Use package tracking and wait outside in advance.
3. Use a package pickup station
4. If you’re in the U.S., you’re a decade too late… Google Street View, etc.
5. It feels so good to be German now that everyone has spent all these years making fun of us for worrying about privacy.
6. You reap what you sow.