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He seems pretty rational.
If you start from premises that are disconnected from reality, you can use perfect rationality to reach insane conclusions.
Are you armchair diagnosing him? He seems pretty sane.
What we know about CEO shooting suspect
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#872There is a similar thread on zerohedge.com: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/person-interest-nyc-assa... It contains much discussion regarding esp. - the police finding a gun, multiple IDs and a "manifesto" on his person. Much suspicion of the suspect being a "patsy", i.e., someone falsely incriminated. - questioning of the rationality of the suspect, i.e., was he mentally ill, a drug user, etc. Best segment [copi…
> Worth reading thru all the stupid comments just to read ones like this ... I'm not sure that's true, given that it's Zero Hedge and therefore like wading through a toxic stew of stupidity and sub-4chan conspiracy theorising.
C'mon, laugh a little!
When I got up this morning I was still laughing about the "escape goat" reference in a long dreary thread raising the possibility of outside actors, planting of evidence, and other wild speculations.
Zerohedge used to be good - maybe it could be good again. It certainly has participation.
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How far does this carry? Is the charge of the insurance company to keep you alive at all costs?
In a healthy society we wouldn't have "health insurance companies" which are profit driven and are motivated to cut costs, not provide care.
I think most people would say that Switzerland is a "healthy society", yet:
>Switzerland has universal health care,[3] regulated by the Swiss Federal Law on Health Insurance. There are no free state-provided health services, but private health insurance is compulsory for all persons residing in Switzerland (within three months of taking up residence or being born in the country)
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It never made sense to me why he was wandering around the city in the same exact clothes he used during the murder. If he had simply worn another jacket, he may never have been identified. How could he not have realized he'd be on camera or described by witnesses? Now he gets caught with all the incriminating evidence you could ask for? I'd say Occam's Razor points to your second theory: He's not playing some sort of…
My guess is he didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about his emotional state after pulling the trigger. He probably immediately regretted the decision and half heartedly followed some sort of escape plan.
Or he realized that he'd become a folk hero and wanted to try his chances in the court of public opinion, try to inspire others, etc.
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#875Side note: I guess the original typo was the AP or someone, but I assume Fixarixis is supposed to be Firaxis, given the suspect's connections to Maryland and the fact that all search results for Fixarixis are copies of this story. It's interesting how that spreads.
Yeah, he worked on Civ VI as a software intern.
Whoa... I might've actually tinkered with some of this guy's code back in my modding days. What a strange contradiction it is to think that we can unknowingly interact with so many different people and never once get to know any of them.
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#876Usually I don't tend to get caught up in stories like this. But one thing has me completely fascinated, is how far off the deep end the internet went over the last few days. A murderer became a cult hero online. I saw many posts even suggesting "the snitch" should be hunted down and get what's coming to him/her. I try not to overreact to stuff online, but this took me a bit by surprise. Things really feel like a melt…
It’s funny how we treat these things. Kill a bunch of people by putting lead in their drinking water and it’s a shrug. Occasionally you might lose your job over it. In extremely rare and egregious cases you might end up with a minor criminal conviction. Kill one person by putting lead in their heart at high speed and now it’s a serious crime. If the victim is Important then you get a massive manhunt and national news…
>putting lead in their drinking water
Flint, Michigan
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Conspiracy theory below, so beware, I warned you. What are the odds that since case is high profile they probably used some grey area or illegal surveillance tool from their 3 letter agency friends and made up some story how a patron recognized him. Convinently guy also had a copy of all the incriminatint stuff with him. (In russia he would also have sims3). Since he talked on phone, they used some voice recognition…
Why stop there? Thompson was allegedly set to testify on some insider trading hearing while he knew about an anti-trust case before the public. Maybe those same TLAs found a guy with a grudge and nudged him up to take care of a witness who might testify to something they didn't want public, or maybe some of their superiors were just upset about the $25B in lost shareholder value in the whole situation.
Well the guy is alive (so far) and if I understand correctly he will testify in public
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> I'm looking for different paths than murder to accomplish this. It seems like our entire system has been intentionally designed and refined over centuries specifically to ensure that nothing short of radical, even violent, acts will have any meaningful impact on those in power. Corporations in particular have insulated themselves from any accountability whatsoever and there are literal serial killers who knowingly…
>Corporations in particular have insulated themselves from any accountability whatsoever and there are literal serial killers who knowingly sold products and took actions that they knew would kill people who have never and will never see a single day behind bars. Exactly: look at the people behind the Ford Pinto (with the exploding gas tank), and more recently the people behind the Boeing 737MAX.
It is reasonable that corporations and individuals "protect themselves". No one wants to work for a company that's been damaged by bad judgement or bad luck. So companies have boards of directors and stockholders to oversee operations, hold officers liable to varying degrees, and purchase insurance against risks.
But corporations are guided by human beings so, in the end, we have ourselves to blame. If making any accusation you'd best put a name or names to it and forgo accusing a corporation purely.
But that doesn't make corporations a bad thing. They have, quite the contrary, proven to be a wonderful economic construct, along with such tools as capitalism and insurance.
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How far does this carry? Is the charge of the insurance company to keep you alive at all costs?
UHC has a profit margin of 6%. If the company was PERFECTLY run, you're still going to have tons of people getting denied claims. That's what happens with the law of big numbers. And guess what. You're never going to have a perfectly run company. If you take the CEOs salary and distribute it to healthcare patients, $50M worth of healthcare is not going to even minutely move the needle. UHC revenue is $100B PER QUARTE…
What's the best way to solve the engineering issue of high load on any given system?
Reduce or eliminate the load.
Of course insurance will reduce their load with tactics such as deny, deny. But systemically, there's a better, good-faith way.
IMHO, without getting into all the nitty gritty details, the good-faith way to improve a ton of healthcare is to extend the efforts of fortification in common foods, expand people's consumption of healthier foods (more plants that provider fiber + minerals), improve people's abilities and motivation around healthier lifestyle choices (exercise, sleep), and significantly reduce or re-engineer illness-causing agents (plastics, VOCs) in our daily lives.
The challenge is how to implement these things in a balanced and sustainable manner, while keeping most industries relatively happy. Of course this would take a decade or more, but the knowledge is out there from some very competent healthspan PHds/MDs and a variety of scientists.
In my personal opinion, if all we did was increase consumption of sulfur, protein (especially collagenic sources), we would improve a tremendous amount of health outcomes drastically. Asian countries are a great example where the food actually has sulfur and collagenic sources built into their culture. Koreans consume cabbage 3x/day (cruciferous veggies with sulfur) and traditionally consume a bone-broth (collagenic) type of soup with 1-3 meals on the daily. I could outline the science here, but a huge amount of chronic illness, such as the shooter's mother may have seen some relief with some of my aforementioned efforts.
The way we can take for granted iodine deficiency because they added it to salt, we really need to do that for others. Omega 3s within milk these days is also a good path forward.
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#880A couple of theories: - person clearly had meticulously planned the execution of the hit and exfiltration. Even leaving red herrings on his way out of the city (backpack full of Monopoly money). Yet clumsily keeps _all_ of the evidence that would implicate himself in this murder. Not to mention he is wandering about in public while a multi-state manhunt is underway with the full weight of alphabet soup agencies, and…
> Or the internet, media really over-estimated this persons competence.
definitely this one. there was a lot of projection of competency onto him, wanting him to be some kind of superhero assassin that would disappear. when in reality, he wasn't using that welrod pistol clone, and his gun was jamming with every shot.
but also he was self-destructive and definitely wasn't trying hard enough to not get caught. and that comes with the territory because you're not going to be well-adjusted and decide to assassinate someone in broad daylight. and i would pick self-destructive over arrogant. and he may just have not realized how distinct his facial features were.