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Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by w1ntermut3 »

10xDev wrote: post #23
noname123 wrote: post #17

I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home. But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with show…

But resentment over what? I haven't seen anything on this.

Academic success perhaps. The killer and Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor he killed, were in the same class at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal's leading engineering school). Loureiro had a distinguished career at MIT while the killer was homeless.

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Post by Moosdijk »

lambda wrote: post #162
SoftTalker wrote: post #157

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It's not uncommon. University buildings are pretty open even today. I worked with a homeless guy who was a university employee, so he had a legit staff ID card. He just didn't want to spend money on rent. He knew where the empty rooms were that nobody ever used, where the showers were. I bet every major university has a few people living/sheltering in campus buildings.

RMS famously lived out of his office at MIT for a while.

RMS = Richard Stallman, responsible for the GNU project and the free software foundation.

He had a page dedicated to his housing situation:

https://stallman.org/seeking-housing.html

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Post by MangoToupe »

BurningFrog wrote: post #128
asdff wrote: post #77

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The sentiment is basically that the "all hands on deck" manpower effort is futile and if anything even a political/propaganda effort to dissuade others from having similar thoughts. What good is it to mobilize 1000 FBI agents if they aren't going to move the case forward at all? What good is having a budget capable of mobilizing that many people for a single case and not to bear any fruit with it? Is this outcome bet…

There is always going to be a PR element in police efforts. In a democracy you need to show the voters you're doing work.

The society of the spectacle needs a spectacle!

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by techdmn »

websiteapi wrote: post #47
nervousvarun wrote: post #44

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How could they possibly have solved it faster than this? There's no magic to this and it takes time like anything else. Yes there's digital footage but someone has to go through it. The murder in Massachusetts isn't immediately obviously related. Of course the family wants it solved right away but there's a reality to this that seems to be overlooked here but is also not unique here. A lot of murders are never solved…

I am not saying luck isn't a factor - you're missing my point which is we're compromising privacy and going further into a surveillance state, yet it's not like the actual outcomes are improving. I'm not really sure what you think I'm arguing.

I have a theory, it would be great if someone would do a rigorous study to back me up! Ha. I'm most likely wrong, but anyway:

The more effort a state puts into surveiling its population, the more effort law enforcement will put into suppressing dissent, and less into addressing crimes targeting the general populous.

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

twixfel wrote: post #209
weird-eye-issue wrote: post #178

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Its amazing people are downvoting this These media companies love tragedies like this. It is what makes them the most money. Why would they disable ads on their most lucrative pages?

It's very silly to say they "love" them. It's unlikely anyone is happy this happened. They are a news company, they report news, and people are interested most of all in bad things that have happened.

No it's not silly. These companies would be at a tiny fraction of their current revenue if people didn't like reading bad news and especially terrible tragedies. How much do you think their page views spike when there is an active manhunt or major events that happen? From a business perspective: they love them.

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Post by [deleted] »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #165
rectang wrote: post #98

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I assume he will also no longer be able to live in the engineering hall basement. Beyond personal moral satisfaction, coming forward only means sacrifice. But a number of people have lost their lives, which keeps the scale of the tipster's personal losses in perspective. A terrible event all around.

> number of people have lost their lives, which keeps the scale of the tipster's personal losses in perspective I disagree. The shooter’s victims fell to a random act of violence. (As in the victims were randomly selected. The shooter didn’t randomly occur.) It is tragic. But it was a crime committed by one man, now dead, who targeted the innocent. The tipster is more than innocent. He is a hero. His eviction is not…

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Post by krapp »

noobermin wrote: post #186
pavon wrote: post #147

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The Trump administration has suspended the green card lottery program, using this murder as an excuse.

They are taking advantage of a situation. You'd think a false flag would definitely have someone who could be construed to not be a white immigrant.

I don't think it's a false flag but the online right has already decided the shooter isn't white.

If anyone has ever been confused by the concept of race being a cultural construct, here is an object lesson.

Re: Brown/MIT shooting suspect found dead, officials say

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Post by storus »

w1ntermut3 wrote: post #211
10xDev wrote: post #23

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But resentment over what? I haven't seen anything on this.

Academic success perhaps. The killer and Nuno Loureiro, the MIT professor he killed, were in the same class at Instituto Superior Técnico (Portugal's leading engineering school). Loureiro had a distinguished career at MIT while the killer was homeless.

Maybe he had some idea that his buddy ran away with and he attributed his success to his idea, while he was homeless? There was a whole TV show around a similar idea (Breaking Bad).

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Post by [deleted] »

noname123 wrote: post #17

I work on campus (very very close to the engineering building) and I previously lived near Brookline. So all of this hits home. But what got me was the tipster who blew wide open the case is reportedly a homeless Brown graduate who lived in the basement of the engineering building (a la South Korean film Parasite). It made me so sad but also not surprised, that building does have a single occupancy bathroom with show…

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