ATT services down due to bombing in Nashville

Post by concordDance » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 11:51 AM UTC

monoideism wrote: post #288

anonymouse008 wrote: post #217

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I’m convinced there are a handful of accounts designed to suppress thought and discussion — they hit you with a few downvotes... see how you respond, then downvote up to 10 votes. (Note this only from my experience... it would help immensely to know who downvoted)

I know this is true. There are a handful of bots, or possibly HN itself, that immediately downvotes comments that HN will find popular, but that aren't "politically correct". Happens to me frequently that I receive an immediate 3-4 downvotes, only to end up with 10-20 upvotes and few subsequent downvotes. The only alternative -- that there are a handful of avid HNers who are on here 24 hours a day, who really hate di…

Post by mckirk » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:04 PM UTC

artificialLimbs wrote: post #291

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Isn't acting out of a sense of morality the definition of a 'good deed'? Granted, bombing stuff hardly classifies but if you decide it's necessary to bomb something, preventing unnecessary harm for moral reasons could still be seen as a 'good deed'.

No. Some people think killing Jews is moral, for instance.

Post by spoopyskelly » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:21 PM UTC

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The area being full of restaurants and bars that may have been pushed into hard times or have gone out of business because of overzealous COVID policies made me think of the possibility of someone doing this for insurance money or to cut their losses somehow.

I think more likely a 5G nut. Tennessee is pretty bad currently with COVID. Given it is 5G building, people were warned to leave area, large explosion (still not enough to destroy the building, but looks like it caused a huge damage) I think it is likely that someone believing that 5G causes people to get sick and die would think that could help.

Post by Throwaway1771 » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:27 PM UTC

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A guy working in this building told me they had showers to clean off radioactive fallout as the building itself could stand up to a bomb. Guy said “you’d be fucked either way” and laughed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_Thomas_Street

It's probably not in this case but i wonder if this ATT was a special surveillance nexus... I think it's most likely the bomb wasn't meant to target anything, but was just some person's outlet Edit: i wasn't saying, "nuclear protection probably wasn't the case", i was saying, "the comment I'm about to make probably isn't the case but"... I know it's unclear

Post by lovetocode » Sat, Dec 26, 2020, 12:29 PM UTC

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Destroying property for political reasons is not terrorism. You have to incite terror, if civilians are not scared then it isn't terrorism it is vandalism.

Imagine having to drink coffee. Its pretty terrifying, especially for a Brit. More seriously - the people who own that property were civilians and probably scared. In usa terrorism is defined currently as "premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated against noncombatant targets by subnational groups or clandestine agents". (Title 22 Chapter 38 U.S. Code § 2656f) The boston tea party was premeditated, pol…