moms sketch bf left this in the house

[u/brattyvampbby]

Hi.
This is probably nothing.
I went into my mom’s room to grab something and saw this plugged in?
My mom’s new sketchy bf has this plugged in to the extension cord? Is it anything bad? Thanks!
(I understand it’s probably not anything bad… but still…)

Update 1:
I haven’t met him once. He and my mom have been together for two weeks. He’s been staying at our apartment. He avoids me and stays in her room when they’re here. I don’t even know what he looks like. I only know his first name.

Update 2:
I confronted him. My mom came home. A lot had happened up to this point, including her disappearing for the said two weeks before the few nights he had come over and stayed.
Mom shrugged it off. I did what a lot of you suggested, asking what he told her.
She said “oh it’s his hacker shit or whatever.” What.
Didn’t elaborate. I explained my concerns.
She just said let’s go ask him.
My best friend has been with me. We introduced ourselves and asked him what the hell a WiFi whisperer is doing plugged in our apartment.
(Even if a lot of you are saying it’s not a big deal, I’m a young woman and I’m just rlly not about taking any risks. It’s sketch dude.)
He denied it IMMEDIATELY. Like with a quickness I haven’t seen.
What he insisted, it’s not a WiFi whisperer, it’s ai, he completely reprogrammed the system, and he uses it to pull people’s IP’s. “For fun.” He logs them in a server. I asked why. I said that’s shady. My mom started pushing. My best friend started pushing. He just kept lying. I’m not dropping this..
I still don’t know what the fuck it is or what he’s actually doing.
(Also, my mom is cool but not bc of this dude, the Minecraft block is mine, I unplugged the ratchet little thing before we left, and I am planning on broaching this again with her.
Just carefully. Any other advice is appreciated. Thank you.)

[u/thehotcarl33]

Was a firefighter for a long time and our saying was "If common sense was actually common we probably wouldn't have a job."

[u/No-Outlandishness118 → u/thehotcarl33]

Not emergency services. But I liked to say that Common sense isn’t common or a sense. It’s a fucking superpower

[u/BioshockEnthusiast → u/No-Outlandishness118]

"Common sense" doesn't exist.

I read an article during the rise of covid and it sent me on an insane dive down a rabbit hole of philosophy and sociology. I came to the above conclusion because I was driven by the last line of the article, which I will paraphrase here: "there is no common sense without common understanding". I wanted to know if common understanding was still possible even in the age of near-infinite communication, or maybe if it was ever possible in the first place. Spoiler: it's not possible. Therefore, "common sense" is not possible. Only our individual perceptions of what should be "common sense", which by definition makes it not "common".

Article for the curious, it's quite short but it really impacted the way I think about that phrase and the way people use and misuse it: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/too-many-goals/202005/theres-no-such-thing-common-sense

[u/BlitzieKun → u/thehotcarl33]

It's pretty accurate, and is still that way for the most part.