• shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 days ago

    So when does the all out manhunt with every possible available resource deployed to find the killer begin?

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          Dude that’s not fucking fair.

          I wanna see you try to look for evidence with all that bribery and police gang money obscuring your vision and see if you do any better.

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          12 days ago

          Yeah, the victim likely shot himself three times and engraved words on every casing. /sarcasm

          Seriously, what kind of evidence are you expecting to find?

          EDIT: To be clear this is not an ironic question, if we’re accusing the police of willful ignorance we should at least present a decent argument. What do we look for?

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            Its much safer to leave no evidence and use some tricks to lock the door behind you than to leave misdirecting evidence like a manifesto and fake weapon or something like that.

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      12 days ago

      Whistleblowers are automatically overcome with grief at disappointing the high and mighty Job Creators and shoot themselves in the back of the head twice in despair.

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    Oh, I see how it is. They keep killing and killing, but we hit ONE CEO and shit hits the fan. Alright, then.

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    Two bullets back of the head?

    A Boeing suicide…

    You know we all love a good laugh about russians falling out from a window but when we will start asking questions why whistle blowers “dying” is a normal occurrence in the US.

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    Its crazy how fast you die once you blow that whistle. All out class war on one side.

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      In some countries some people prefer to suicide themselves alone in their rooms without warning. In other countries, they prefer to suicide themselves by shooting themselves multiple times in the back and/or throwing themselves off of multiple storey buildings. Who can say? It’s not like countries led by psychopaths who put profit margins above society, including people’s lives, would ever kill people to defend their bottom line.

      There’s two barriers to justice in today’s world: The first one is having enough money to hire lawyers. The second one is having enough money to hire bodyguards.

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    So many whistleblowers ending up dead. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence. Hundreds of coincidences.

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      Can’t we try and fund our own armed compounds for whistleblowers?

      Especially the ones that benefit working class cause like this guy - because AI stealing our data is a threat to all of us.

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        It’s so bad because people will happily cheer it on. But eventually it will just be used to go after political opponents and just classes of people that whoever is in charge doesn’t like. We have so, so many dumb and sometimes even conflicting crimes on the books that the average American unwittingly breaks a few federal laws and usually a myriad of state laws (most being outdated or blue book laws) every week. For some people near state borders it can be everyday.

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    You gotta set up a dead man’s switch (not literal give the evidence to a lawyer or do a deposition or whatever). Do that before you blow the whistle and announce that at the same time.

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    Bill Burr has this take that corporations are the mobsters of yore, they just kneecap or whack people in different ways because the law is on their side now. Until it’s not.

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    It’s all about probabilities.

    Truth is proof, and the article contains no details to establish this absolutely. So, we are left with supposition.

    This wasn’t an isolated man with nothing to live for - while his career in AI was over, he’d left it to pursue a moral agenda. Suicide is not likely until AFTER he testifies and discharged this.

    The fact he supposedly had documents and a testimony that could heavily harm a company is enough to make it very likely his death was the cost of doing business - why pay a billion in a court case when you can pay a million for a professional hit?

    On the balance of probabilities, it looks more likely to be like foul play. As they say, Epstein didn’t kill himself.

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    So? He was Poor! Let me know when a RICH PERSON dies and THEN I’ll care!

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    Why not establish armed compounds where we the people keep whistleblowers safe?

    Some private rancho in Texas with armed guards and lots of cameras?

    Clearly gov is failing to protect them.

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    Conservative conspiracy theories: “HA! What idiots!”

    Lemmy conspiracy theories: “HA! Told ya!”

    Maybe ask some fucking questions?!

    after receiving a call asking officers to check on his well-being

    Who called and why? This seems extraordinarily important.

    “currently, no evidence of foul play.”

    OK. Let’s see what comes out.

    The MO here seems to be pressuring people in to suicide. It’s been done. So…? What do we know along those lines?

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      SWAT doesn’t need to know who called in order to go full Rambo on random citizens. Rich people pull the strings. They don’t believe in accountability.

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        They do not send in SWAT for wellness checks

        In a Nov. 18 letter filed in federal court, attorneys for The New York Times named Balaji as someone who had “unique and relevant documents” that would support their case against OpenAI. He was among at least 12 people — many of them past or present OpenAI employees — the newspaper had named in court filings as having material helpful to their case, ahead of depositions.

        Unless stuff starts happening to those people, or there is some detail I missed in the article, it is much more plausible that this was suicide than some corporate hit, let alone one carried out using police violence? Is that what you were implying?

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        That’s a vector of attack and it has been exploited by randos.

        I think if it wasn’t for that, we wouldn’t know that it can be that easy to call in swat someone, these people do no diligence, just go in hot.

        This is way to easy to socially engineer, government must know this and yet it still happens.

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      I was talking to my cousin (journalist) a while ago and she told me how she was supposed to interview a whistleblower for Anaheim PD. I snarkily commented something like, “yeah but let me guess he shot himself twice in the back of the head” and she alarmingly said “…yeah, how did you know?”

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        I’m surprised that she would be surprised by that, it’s like the most obvious thing ever lol