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What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Yes, he's not acting rationally because he's having a mental health crisis.

If you look at his Twitter account, he disappeared a few months ago and all the replies were friends asking where he went.

(Also, he's a tpot poster, which is a kind of tech bro that likes tweeting about how great it is to do psychedelic drugs. This is bad for your mental health!)

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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I'm weirdly not too surprised due to this belief I have that software developers would make effective criminals. A lot of this boils down to a belief I have that not getting caught in the first place is easy. Murders have something like a 50% solve rate and you can decrease your chances of getting caught with a little knowledge on how to evade common forensic techniques along with some planning. Those who get caught…

More importantly, engineers are for some reason especially likely to be terrorists.

https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/29836/1/Why_are_there_so_many_Engi...

I think it's related to old physicist brain where you decide you know everything about everyone else's field.

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-03-21

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