You're postulating a scenario where each password was dumped individually after discovery. A large portion of password dumps are actually the result of massive databreaches, this includes cases such as unprotected passwords, or unseeded / non-hashed ones. In many cases these databases have nothing to do with brute forcing or not biasing the results.

People are actually stupid.

There's a difference between not giving something away and being okay with someone taking something from you.

The point is that a user may not give a shit. If someone breaks into my Slashdot account and takes it over or gets it banned I wouldn't care. It's just not important. Impersonating my pseudonym is also not critical to me. Pretending I am a random nickname online doesn't impact me.

On the flipside personally linked and identifiable information is an issue. Not all accounts are the same, and yes I reuse my Slashdot password for a lot of accounts I don't give a shit about, but you won't get into my bank with it.

Some personal experiences:
1. I got asked once if I played world of warcraft since they say a guy with the name "thegarbz" playing. I said no. By the way I know exactly who that person is because he impersonated me as a joke. I found that flattering and funny, but it has no impact on my life beyond that.
2. I lost my phone and my authenticator wasn't backed up. As a result I was locked out of a bunch of accounts. I was annoyed but moved on. It wasn't important. Oh ... except when I turned on my VR headset and realised my Oculus account was logged out and was one of those authenticator tokens for which I didn't have a recovery code. Luckily I had an old broken phone which I could repair which still had authenticator on it. That would have had a monetary impact on me. First thing I did after getting my account back is setup a backup code.
- But just that account, not the others because again to be clear, somethings are not worth giving a shit about.

It takes seconds right until your password manager is unavailable. Or your database is corrupt and you lose access to all your passwords in one go. Or someone takes over your Google / iCloud account and your passwords with it. Nothing is without risk, or without complication.

12345? That's the kind of password an idiot who would be too young to understand the joke reference would use on their luggage!

No one is blaming this survivor for living. They are blaming this guy for effectively cheating, hanging on to the body of a dead wife while moving on with a new girlfriend. The blame is about his extreme selfishness. Mourn, miss, move on if you can, but also accept to be called out as a selfish hypocrite if you do all at once.

Sorry for your loss, and fuck anyone who blamed you for living.

So they fold corporation on paper, walk away from the loan and open up a new corporation that gets to use the facility.

Dude it's 2025, by now you should know how this game is played.

1. That's why I gave two sources, dummy.The second source is a detailed dataset and says in the FAQ: "Around 68% of UK households have access to off-street parking."

2. Who mentioned AI? i didn't. I said "rando YT". The notion that your paltry 24 hours in the UK plus watching some YT videos gives you insight into what off-street parking is like in the UK is completely absurd. You cannot seriously think this gives you any kind of meaningful insight. You might aw well pick out Templewood Avenue on Streetview and declare that every house in the UK has off-street parking, or Mabfield Road in Fallowfield and declare none does. I've lived here all my life, and I wouldn't presume ot guess what percentage of cars are parked off-street on the basis of what I've seen with my eyes, because there's 30m+ cars in the UK and 800,000 streets!

3. Once again, you fail at basic reading comprehension. "Will be able to" does not mean the same as "Will". It means "have the possibility". I say this because modern houses have electricity and houses with off-street parking have... off-street parking, and those are the only two pieces of infrastructure required for a household to able to provide home charging. You keep trying to make out this is really hard and really complicated, and it's not. 70% of cars are parked at houses with off-street parking. The owners of those houses could, if they choose, put in a home charger, and then those cars could be charged at home. It will cost the owners about £1000 and ... that's all there is to it. I'm not claiming that all households will do this, I'm saying it's not physically impossible for them to do it, whereas it is physically impossible to put in off-street charging at a house that doesn't have off-street parking (or doesn't have electricity, but that's basically zero houses).

Oh look! You're exactly the coward I said you were. Too much of a pathetic wimp to stand behind what you say and back it up.

The reason I can say "you people" with confidence, is because you're so utterly fucking predictable that you can indeed be grouped together, because you all do the same things and behave in the same stupid way. Thick as pig shit and weak to boot.

I forget which town but one of them immediately removed all the cameras when somebody did a foi request.

You're not going to find out where the billionaires are going because like Steve Jobs used to do they hide their license plates.

But your shitty little Republican mayor who frequents the local gay bar doesn't have the resources to do that. A

Businesses only need to hide it if they are the data controller or the data processor engaged in confidence. YOUR PUBLIC PROFILE IS NOT THIS. *YOU* chose not to hide it. It is clearly mentioned that your profile is available and shared with others. It's your choice not to include a photo or your name in it.

Whether it's personal or not is irrelevant. It is published, by you. When you setup WhatsApp you're explicitly told it'll be available for other's to see. You've explicitly authorised people to view it.

Your name is considered personal information when you enter an agreement to share it in confidence. That's not what happens in public profiles. In other news Phonebooks used to exist, vast databases printed out and delivered to everyone in the city containing the PII of everyone else.

There will always be a few crazies, but the reality is the overwhelming supermajority of details in the phonebook were 100% accurate and available.

The number isn't Gemini users, it's AI Overviews. They are *ONLY* counting the search.

So we have had multiple decades of Court packing so you're headed by the heritage foundation, a right-wing think tank that made that their primary goal.

If you look into Amazon for example and wonder how they got so big you will find that they were just going around buying up all there competitors using investment capital. Most tech companies that's how they got big they just bought up competitors.

Facebook is in a unique situation. Nobody under the age of 18 wants to be on the same social media platform has their parents so every few years a new social media platform develops as a separate platform for the kids.

Every time that happens Facebook just buys that platform.

Tick tock was a problem because they couldn't just buy the platform since it was owned by the Chinese government. So they just pressured the government here to shut it all down and give them control.

Refusing to enforce antitrust law makes your life noticeably worse even if you don't use the services involved.

The problem is it's government regulation and its bureaucrats that enforce the law there.

We have been taught our whole lives that there is nothing worse than the bureaucrat. It doesn't help that as an American most of your interactions with the government are negative. Means testing for assistance programs is brutal and difficult so if you fall on hard times and need help fuck you. Most of us did never do need help still have to go to the DMV sometimes and wait in line frustratingly or we get pulled over by cops and that's our interaction with the government.

It is very easy to translate those frustrated emotions with a sabotaged government into a desired cut regulations that control corporate abuses that hurt you.

And that is way too complicated a concept for probably 80% of the population to understand...

Great response, my guy. Substance-free and yet another use of a term you don’t understand. I *dare* you to explain how you’re right, and provide some detail on what you think dumping is, and why. I’ll bet you’re far too much of a coward to try, though. People like you always are.