It was a comment on their diet.

I can smell your farts by looking at that photo.

Where did you get this picture of me? Nobody was supposed to know that I’m a crustacean!

I like that every keyboard was signed on the inside by some quality control guy. And that they had some holes in the baseplate which the manual explicitly stated were there so the coffee could run off. Yet, my favorite keyboard is the Cherry G80-3000 (US ANSI).

This is victim blaming.

Only to some degree. The guy is a software engineer and should have known better. I’d agree if it was Jenny from accounting. You could just as well point out “victim blaming” when I called someone a moron for jumping from a three storey building and breaking his legs, because it was neither his intention nor was he aware that it could break his legs. For a software engineer to employ cloud based “smart” devices and then wonder if it backfires is borderline moronic.

Either they omitted crucial information making it a pyramid scheme, or falsely called it a pyramid scheme, and/or took statements from a third party without fact-checking. Bad reporting from every angle.

The firm has also claimed that there is evidence to suggest that the app is an illegal pyramid scheme, with members being charged $49.99 a month to join.

I mean, the guy is an idiot and detrimental to society, but, that’s not a pyramid scheme. A pyramid scheme is defined by having multiple layers which get wider the further down you go with money flowing to the top. That’s just one layer with a ridiculous fee. It’s almost as if these people thought along the lines of “Tate bad, pyramid scheme bad, so we call this a pyramid scheme”, without understanding what a pyramid scheme is.

On one side, critics lambasted Jackson as a dupe for having smart devices in the first place; […]

Yah … that.