• Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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    It’s one thing to mock it on pseudonymous platforms like Reddit and the fediverse.

    It’s another to do it somewhere linked to your real name and job like LinkedIn.

    People really hate insurance companies.

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      Don’t so it under your names folks, regime will be making lists based on this.

      They are scared and they will lash out.

      With that being said, fuck that parasite.

      FAFO

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        You think having a fake online name will stop them from finding out who you are? Did you even pay attention to the Snowden leaks?

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          Make them spend more resources doing deanonymizations. First they have to get the IP from instance admins, then trace the tor routing, then the VPN that I use, then ask for my ISP. Make them do all that work.

          (Or maybe they already have access by simply activating their backdoors within Intel ME, AMD PSP, and whatever baseband backdoor on the phones they have, and have just gotten everyone’s real identities in an instant, we can’t know for sure.)

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            They also have backdoors in most implementations of TLS, according to a person I know who worked government security.

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              It wouldn’t be impossible. There are like so many different certificate issuers, any one of them collaborating with a government would allow them to create a certificate that would be accepted by your browser.

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              I work in cryptography, and I guarantee if that’s true “some person you know who worked in government security” would not tell you if they did know, or they are pulling shit out of their ass. There have been so many people that have looked at or worked on SSL/TLS implementations (including some of my coworkers), any vulnerabilities would have to be pretty subtle or clever, and that would be kept highly classified. Quit making shit up or repeating bullshit you heard.

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                Sure, if we’re talking about code vulnerabilities only. It’s most likely a compromised root cert though.

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                  That just would allow a malicious attacker to fake being the server, it doesn’t actually compromise the TLS session. So you are talking about a much more sophisticated multi stage attack that needs to be actively executed. This wouldn’t at all allow them to record traffic and decrypt later.

                  The certs authenticate that you are talking to the real server, the symmetric session keys that are usually derived from a diffie helman key exchange have nothing to do with certs. That’s two separate (but connected) parts of the transaction to build a TLS session.

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        They already have lists. The only hope we have is to stand together in solidarity as the working class against the billionaire capitalists entering power.

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          i was talking about people commenting on linkedin actually…

          nor did I suggest reddit is anon, but aint you aint got provide your full name and address.

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          Help, I’m now physically inside my system, but it’s kinda hard to read the screen at this angle. Plus I’ve got to reach out for keyboard input…

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      LinkedIn is one of the least sane social media sites I’ve ever had the displeasure of using. Under all the marketing BS and obviously fake feel good stories lie takes that would make your insane Facebook uncle blush.

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      People are too hung up about anonimity on the internet. When one of my country’s worst journalistic shitrags mandated a real name policy due to the rampant racism and other -isms in the comment section of their articles… nothing changed. People are happily spewing the same vile rethoric as before and proud to, instead of being shamed into silence.

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    “United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

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    He didn’t really get “assassinated”. He just got denied his critical-life benefits.

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      When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

      Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

      If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

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        I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.

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          Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and he just never gets caught.

          If he does, it’s gonna be one hell of a gofundme campaign for his defense.

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          Dealing with insurance with a nonfatal chronic illness can also be infuriating. You have to keep fighting the same battle over and over and over again.

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        Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it’s barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.

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        Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.

        Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn’t really have any time to enjoy it.

        Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

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          Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

          This is one of the things that scares me about most about completely anonymous currencies and networks: untraceable kill orders and, to a lesser extent, unlimited bribery (that already exists in US). Because you know, it opens the most possibilities to people with money. Like billionaires.

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            I suspect billionaires and other people of high authority, especially, would be the first ones on the list. But your average everyday person is very unlikely to be on the list because they don’t have enough people who hate them.

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        Don’t get scammed but if he ever needs a legal defense fund, I think the plebs can figure it out.

        He did job well, least we can do it pay respects

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        According to the media, he made a lot of very amateur mistakes if that’s the case. Like leaving a water bottle and granola bar wrappers and being filmed on camera at a Starbucks.

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          Has the Starbucks guy actually been confirmed as the same person? It looked like clearly a different jacket and backpack, I assumed that was either an accomplice or just an unfortunate lookalike, but I suppose he could have changed or it could just be odd lighting tricks.

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          Leaving the DNA behind doesn’t really identify him if his DNA is not in the system.

          But nowadays the odds some relative of yours put theirs up on some family tree site is pretty high so they could narrow the suspect pool quite a bit going that route.

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      Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?

      This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.

      The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.

      This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell

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      Silly tardigrade’s playing on the wrong side of the bridge. Do they teach nothing at tardigrade music school?

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          TIL. Thank you!

          but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

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            The Threnody is definitely his most famous, but he has used that technique in some of his solo compositions for cello as well - example

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              Oh WOW!
              That’s…something else entirely.
              So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
              Yields immediate visceral reactions.
              The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
              How does one remember such a piece?
              Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
              Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

              An amendment of something conjured by it:

              It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

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    You know what’s pretty neat about this?

    It’s not mob justice. Mob justice is when people get together and come up with bad ideas. This is an individual that the public has now rallied around.

    While we only see comments from a select few number of people in this country (relative to it’s size of 350m) it seems that democracy is voicing itself. I know a lot of people who were initially shocked, but then quickly came to the conclusion that FAFO is a real thing.

    And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.

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      And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.

      Hopefully more of the FO part comes out of the woodwork.

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        We don’t know the implications of this. But there got to be something big coming our way.

        Ruling class will not have their lieutenant punished like this in a broad day light with out lashing out.

        They already despise as is, they gonna step up brutality imho screw here, screw there.

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          That’s just going to pour gas on the fire. The less people have to lose, the more likely they’re going to take matters into their own hands.

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            You aint wrong but ruling class can’[t accept one of their officers being gunned down by what appears to be a pleb with vendetta and he get away with it while rest of us cheer him on as a hero.

            This is about power, and the the people with power feeling insecure.

            Time will tell. I expect things to get worse before/if they ever get better for the working class.

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      “Mob justice” is a boogeyman invented to distract you from the fact that the cops and the state give you no justice at all.

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        It’s not even mob justice, it’s vigilante justice. It just so happens in this case practically everyone is pretty happy about it having happened.

        The mob never called for this CEO’s death, we’re just not sad he was killed. Even if in general most of us wouldn’t actively call for people to be killed.

        If it makes CEOs afraid, then fantastic, a nice happy side-bonus.

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    What I like about this moment is that the people who ought to be fearful are indeed the ones who are fearful. I mean shit, Elon is posting Tweets about how great CEOs are actually, health insurance companies are removing pages from their websites that identify leadership, it’s a lovely little pocket of schadenfreude where we can all take a breath and prepare for the next 4 years.

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      These parasites know that we got numbers on our side and we permit their rule by and large…

      I don’t think this corp of owners realize that plebs can turn on a dime, they got too comfortable. This is a wake up call.

      Having their goon wacked like this got to make them feels a certain way hehe

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        I hope there’s a copycat to reinforce the lesson very soon, or they’ll write this off as a one off.

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      I like the idea that they’ve got billions of dollars, but will have to live in a windowless bunker eating beans.

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        They couldn’t even hunker down in their mansions for two weeks of Covid lockdown.

        They like to fantasize about it, but the reality of living like that will hit them fast.

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    Something something and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t, etc. The only thing I feel bad about is if he has had young children who couldn’t understand he was a waste of skin, they have my sympathy.

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      Feel worse for the millions of children that are parentless due to his policy decisions. His kids will be FINE.

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        I would honestly go so far as to suggest that in the long term, not having this monster raise them (given they’ll still have plenty of money) probably leaves them better off.

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          These execs are scared their own children will ask them to explain what they do for a living. Doubt they raise their kids as much as they pay someone else to do it. That being said, Elmo’s kids are stuck on a compound. That’s definitely going to mess them up.

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          They’re already teenagers. The damage has been done, but hopefully this act will help them decide not to follow in their father’s footsteps.

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          His kids are gonna be worse 20-40milliom per head.

          They will be fine. I doubt they will ever understand why entire society turned on their parasite shitstain father.

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        yeah alls his theoretical kids would have is millions of dollars, the best education, a lavish lifestyle, trust funds, but they would not have their asshole dad.

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              You can feel bad for his family while also not feeling bad about his death. Losing a loved one is hard regardless of how much money you have. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t ultimately a net positive (although I’m doubtful that UH will actually change any policies because of this)

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                I feel bad for his kids. They didn’t choose their parents.

                His wife on the other hand did choose him, so fuck her too.

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                  Aren’t they already seperated?

                  So she is about to paid out big time with blood money he stole…

                  Yeah real peach

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                  What priorities are there? I’m talking about emotions, not actions.

                  You can feel bad for both the children of this guy that will now grow up without a father and the millions of people he harmed at the same time. I’m not even saying I feel equally as bad for his children as his victims’ children (because losing a parent to a preventable death due to insurance is objectively a worse situation). All I’m saying is it’s reasonable to feel sympathy for both. It’s not like the kids had a choice in what their dad did.

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    I’m telling ya, this is the beginning of A Christmas Carol. The ghost of Thompson needs to visit his colleagues and warn them you too, shall die, and no-one will mourn you and the people will celebrate in the streets. And all your friends will tear into your assets like vultures into carrion.

    Heck, replace the ghosts with mobsters and use a trick of time rather than supernatural spirits, and you have a 21st century version of the story.

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    Hopefully dude never gets caught (Which he probably won’t as it’s now been greater than 48 hours, and we all know what that means if you’ve seen The First 48)

    But if he does, it’s going to be awfully hard putting together a jury that hasn’t heard of JURY NULLIFICATION

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      48 hours is only for regular cases with one or two cops assigned. High profile stuff like this gets considerably more attention and resources for a longer period of time

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      First 48 is about finding a victim alive. Murderers are commonly identified and caught outside that window.

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      At this point, I don’t even think they want to catch him anymore. He’s already being talked about as a hero, throwing him in jail would make him a martyr. People would protest at the trial too, it would be a mess.

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        Exactly. There’s no way they’ll allow him to speak his mind or allow the people to rally in his support in a huge trial. They find him, he’s dead. The “how” they’ll figure it out. Happy cop trigger, killed while trying to escape, heart attack, attacked by a bear, hit by meteorite. They’ll come up with something, mark my words.

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    I’m not celebrating, I just think we should have a massive “Enjoy hell, Brian” wake, on the scale of Boston after the Red Sox won the world series for the first time in 80-something years. But nationwide.

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    Why contain it? Let it spill over to the schools and churches, let the bodies pile up in the streets. In the end, they’ll beg us to save them.

    • Bob Page, 2052
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      Let it spill over to the schools and churches,

      That’s what the regime wants, whoever executed topic of the current discussion knew that they could tap this raw anger.

      Note how witness was left alone… if he killed the witness, this would be a different story.

      Clean murder of a corporate parasite, galvanized the public. Zero tears shed, people are celebrating.

      There is a lesson for the elites in this… but they won’t learn it. They will regroup and oppression will get worse. They will use full force of the state against working people.

      This is just the start.

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          Yeap, the more they squeeze the more people will have less to loose. Now that it’s been done once people see it’s possible. People see how it’s being celebrated. Hopefully this will replace shoot shootings. Because politicians don’t care about dead kids but they’ll as hell care about CEOs being merc’d. Maybe we’ll get some meaningful reforms out of this and change some business practices too.

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    News@lemmy.world deleted a spicy post from a couple days ago. The fediverse isn’t immune but it definitely fares better.

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        Because they did not, and still dont, know the laws associated. And rather than actually consult a lawyer, they became armchair experts.

        I am not surprised by the LW mods. Its expected.

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          They banned talking about the wrong kind of cat food, for Pete’s sake. I’m still not over that one.

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          I am pretty sure .world is paid by the people connected to media/politcal establishment hence why we get a lot of modding similar to reddit.

          Although, reddit lost control of asylum, i never seen so much raw hate.