There is an element of hypocrisy in all this because American intelligence agencies were previously caught intercepting Cisco-made routers on their way to customers and updating their firmware to deploy espionage tools.
It's not hypocrisy to try to spy on others while preventing them from spying on you.
If I saw a very wealthy man with multiple significantly younger women, I would assume that he was probably paying them but not that he was abusing them.
I don't know the details of the case but I expect that almost everyone who works for the city is as opposed to sexual assault as any normal person is. The mistake of the city government as a whole was having so little insurance - just one million dollars. I had 500k in liability for my house and I'm only one guy.
They need $7,500 per resident and, according to the article, they intend to raise that money over three years. I don't know what their property values are like but if I assume an average house price of $300k, a current tax rate of 2%, and three people per house then they're currently getting $6,000 in property taxes per person over three years (which they need to spend on other things) and so an enormous tax increase really is necessary.
(I'm neglecting non-residential property tax payers. A tiny town like this probably doesn't have many.)
you only need a copy of Death Stranding and a phone
Do you actually need the phone or can you use a screenshot?
Also, if they're accessing Baldur's Gate 3 fan fiction, shouldn't they have used the photo mode from Baldur's Gate 3? Surely no one is more entitled to read Minthara erotica than Minthara herself.
It's not hypocrisy to try to spy on others while preventing them from spying on you.