Kinda amazing someone with enough foresight to plan this and conceal their identity doesn't burn their ID and destroy the weapon as like the priority 1 after getting out of the city.
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
His followers count keeps going up every time I refresh. It’s not like he’ll be pushing commits for a while haha.
It's too bad: they really should give prisoners like this computers with some limited access so they can work on coding projects. What else are they going to do with their time, after all? Perhaps they could spend it contributing to open-source projects and helping society.
Part of prison is that you can't communicate to the external world without being monitored. Any shared code would also have to be reviewed. Even in Norway internet use is banned, except for educational purposes, which presumably limits you to wikipedia and .gov
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#293The funniest thing about the whole thing to me is that we have had privacy taken away or even voluntarily given it up to the police state in the name of security and then this guy randomly walks up and offs a member of the 1% and the only reason he got caught was because the feds got lucky.
Well, it's not really luck. It's exactly because there's cctv in enough places that they were able to get his photo from the one moment he lowered his mask at the hostel, but even more significantly that they were able to piece together his movements enough to be able to suspect that the guy at the hostel was the same one that carried out the shooting. Then it was a matter of distributing the photo and hope someone r…
It still came to down to a crappy photo from a security cam and not the drones, internet surveillance, or facial recognition software in constant use against us.
This crime could have been solved the exact same way in the 1980s. The only difference being that the guy's picture would have been distributed over the 6 o'clock news instead of the internet.
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#294Some perspective: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/insurance-companies-arent-the-...
It's the healthcare industrial complex. Just like the military. You get back some percentage of what you charge. They're incentivized to charge more because they'll get more, and sometimes it's an all-or-nothing.
I have doctor friends who quote they spend over 60% of their time dealing with insurance and it's intricacies. It's the fault of the system, with large foundations on insurance and perverse government policy to enrich the leaders therein, and the providers are simply making do with the system they must operate in.
I'll never forget the story I heard about a military squadron that needed like one bolt to fix a relatively important piece of equipment, and it cost like $10 itself.
But the only way they could get it was through a package deal of a million dollars of other insane amounts of equipment that was entirely superfluous and they ended up getting shitloads too many guns and threw away thousands of hardware bits just to get that one screw.
Similar systems at play here.
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#295Is that just me or does the head shape not quite match between releases CCTF footage and the BBC picture and (supposed) mugshot I have seen elsewhere.
Like it's similar but not quite the same mainly less pronounced cheek bones, wider less "bubbly at the tip" nose.
But honestly maybe I'm just hallucinating this due to differences in angle light conditioning etc.
EDIT: To be clear I'm not saying "it's not him" (implying conspiracy or similar), but saying "my first reaction was huh did I click the wrong link that looks like someone else".
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#296He was carrying all of the evidence with him, including the fake ID he used at the hostel, the gun & suppressor, mask, and even a handwritten manifesto that points to his motivation. It seems he wanted to be found.
Exactly my thoughts as well. Every piece of evidence law enforcement has was basically intentionally provided by him. If he just stuffed his trash in one of his 7 pockets, or wore a pair of sunglasses, or didn't actually stare straight at the camera in the taxi like he was getting his school picture taken? I mean pretty much the only thing he failed to do was leave his business card at the crime scene.
The Identity Killer strikes again
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#297The funniest thing about the whole thing to me is that we have had privacy taken away or even voluntarily given it up to the police state in the name of security and then this guy randomly walks up and offs a member of the 1% and the only reason he got caught was because the feds got lucky.
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This is just really funny because the implication is then something like "he wasn't a victim or a working class hero, he was a rich guy, and they're actually the bad guys.. because look! They're murderers!" And then presumably the other side can just be like, "Ok well sure, that's our point anyway I guess..."
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#298I don't think it's particularly relevant that the suspect is a software dev. Many people in the US are software devs nowadays. It has become a completely mainstream career option.
Poking through some more conservative news outlet, they are using some loosely tied together facts to insinuate he's left leaning.
To quote a Reddit comment:
looks like he followed/retweeted rogan, trevor noah, ezra klein, elon, AOC, rfk jr, peter thiel, bernie on twitter. very concerned with falling birthrates, anti-capitalist but pro musk, supports AI, dislikes overwatch but is a pokemon enjoyer. eats mcdonalds but is super ripped, gave positive reviews to ted kaczynski's manifesto as well as jd vance's hillbilly elegy
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#299He gave the Unabomber’s manifesto four stars on Goodreads, and described Unabomber as a "political revolutionary". Excerpts from his review: "It’s easy to quickly and thoughtless write this off as the manifesto of a lunatic, in order to avoid facing some of the uncomfortable problems it identifies. But it’s simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions about modern society turned out." "He was a v…
The unabomber made some good points though. First quote is solid analysis of him
Indeed. I wish he found a productive way to get some real traction on his ideas.
I think it has been long enough to say that the bombings were not productive.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s your point? I haven’t read the manifesto, but I have read that many consider it uncomfortably correct
The Unabomber's MO was politically-motivated terror attacks aimed at high-rank targets. That's exactly what the NYC killing was, so it supports the claim that this guy did it.
The Unabomber killed innocent people. That's a very different MO from this guy.