US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:22 AM UTC

Loquebantur wrote: post #245

Barrin92 wrote: post #198

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>The concentration of deaths is entirely implausibly described as "suicides", The article talks about 19 people. Given the size of those organizations that's statistically elevated but too small a number to descend into conspiracy theories. As the article points out they apparently had internal warnings and studies about lack of mental support for people in signals intelligence and cyber related roles. Given that thi…

You supplant your lack of knowledge in statistics with unfounded assumptions and overt bias. The relevant metric here is number of deaths per size of the specified group and per time . You compare to completely different numbers and confabulate entirely unconnected "explanations". These deaths are most likely due to "housecleaning", as I said.

Post by thin_carapace » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:28 AM UTC

kstrauser wrote: post #425

thin_carapace wrote: post #415

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a quick search engine query 'is venting healthy' leads to results suggesting that venting (emotionally talking about things that affect mental health) is not necessarily an entirely positive behaviour. so the challenged statement is at least partially true. just wanted to share that the sarcasm looks abit silly coz it's not a clear cut situation

Venting and talking to a counselor aren’t the same thing, though. If someone says “taking medicine is bad”, and I say “that’s silly”, then “smoking crack can be harmful” doesn’t weaken my position.

Post by 0xdeadbeefbabe » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

jki275 wrote: post #369

Hilliard_Ohiooo wrote: post #211

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I was in the military and in my experience people that chose to go into war zones, it's optional, are fucked in the head and literally enjoy killing people, I've seen it a dozen times. They want to kill.

You are absolutely fucking full of shit. I chose to "go into war zones" many times and none of it was to "enjoy killing people".

Post by skitsofrandom » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:40 AM UTC

cco wrote: post #201

YesThatTom2 wrote: post #11

I suspect the Cold War of cyber warfare that is happening is orders of magnitude bigger than the public knows. Imagine knowing this and not being able to get emotional support from your friends and family.

Counterpoint, industry cyber security is so generally weak, if there were actually a secret "huge cold cyber war" on-going, we'd see real world impact. Since we don't, it probably isn't happening.

Post by Biganon » Sun, Aug 09, 2026, 2:47 AM UTC

dewyatt wrote: post #59

grommz wrote: post #29

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Once you know about the NSA backdoors you become a walking security risk. Forget about that vacation in beautiful China, you will be held on a short leash for life.

It seems to me that if you end up adjacent to an operation that exposes you to certain technologies, you will be harassed and attacked with covert directed-energy weapons until you are suicided or institutionalized and discredited.