Seems like just about everyone has a video doorbell and/or other cameras monitoring their property. Took it for granted in my youth without even knowing it.

  • SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Maybe, just maybe, the issue is the parents not letting go and not accessibility to cameras.

    Before cameras everyone had a window granny who reported everything happening in the neighborhood. And even then, parents knew what was happening. The goal was that kids would fear that the parents would discover something is amiss and clean after themselves.

    • butterslaps@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Back when I was a teen, my folks would go away for a month and a half every summer and leave us kids behind (we were teenagers and didn’t want to go) and obviously we would throw parties. One year I had cleaned the house really well and thought there was no way they would know. My dad came home and that’s how I learned he keeps two cold beers in the fridge for when he gets home. And they were gone.
      He wasn’t mad we threw parties, he wasn’t mad we were underage drinking, but he was mad his two cold getting-home beers had been drank and not replaced. And that’s how I found out my parents are humans who knew we were having parties and they didn’t care as long as we didn’t die or mess with their shit.

  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 year ago

    You think this isn’t the main use case?

    Parents but this shit and trick tend into thinking it’s about security from the outside. Adults know that was just a fringe possibility, it’s all about curbing house parties.

    Now shut up before they see this.