I spent this week searching for Christmas gifts. It’s cold outside and I suddenly had this thought that everyone in my family plus my friends are getting tan colored jackets with hoods. It just came to me out of the blue.
Was he catching the casings? Like I’m confused why he kept cocking it or reaching on the top?
The CEO probably thought…you can’t do th…do you know who I am…? Right before he hit the pavement. Asshole. I hope this feeling is not illegal.
The silencer and possibly the subsonic ammo caused it to jam so he had to keep racking it to fire. He left three casings from the shots and three live rounds on the ground from the jamming.
and this, kids, is why you don’t want to own a Taurus for self defense.
The suppressor was 100% a wish or temu “flashlight” kit, not legal. Legal ones are usually sold with a neilson device for use with tilting barrel pistols (like glocks), since his didn’t have one the combo was too heavy to cycle the slide. He also had trouble going back into battery a few times leading me to believe it was a poorly milled “ghost gun.”
He used one of these: https://bt-usa.com/products/station-six-9/
See also: https://youtu.be/gzXtlG1arzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POubd0SoCQ8
Gun Jesus disagrees, I trust Ian.
That’s it, I officially get my news mostly from memes
First time?
No, that’s kinda what I meant
Drive-by e-scooter shootings have been a thing here in Sweden, which I firmly place in the same cyberpunk bucket.
Shootings can’t happen in Europe
They do
No it’s illegal!
In Sweden, it’s forbidden by law to be a criminal.
Russian assault group making u-turn on their electrical scooters
They frown on that sort of thing
Not only that…
Damn. Guess I’ll have to find another career path.
Sound logic
Not in America. Apparently if you’re a criminal in America you can run for president!
This is America
America has a strange relationship with the law. We both idealize and despise crime. Crime now is bad and scary (unless it’s your guys), but a lot of people will brag about their ancestors being criminals (especially mobsters). So you sometimes wind up with people who brag about being descended from mafiosos, listening to 90s gangster rap, and fearmongering about MS-13.
Checks notes
I think you mean be president.
Damn, you beat me to it.
In eastern cultures they have a concept which, when translated, is called “the law.” “The law” is about defining a set of rules to encourage people to behave in a way that is more appropriate for society.
That’s crazy, it would never work here
Sounds like socialism either way, and my wise elected leaders said that’s bad.
Well, they’re illegal there aren’t they?
Nah, they happen. Just at way, way lower rates than in the U.S.
Swede here, yeah they absolutely can.
Idgaf what anyone says, that mf is a hero
If this inspires people to shoot up board rooms instead of kindergartens it’s an improvement
That’s the one fucking thing that I don’t understand about US psychos.
They like preying on the vulnerable
The rich and powerful control the narrative. They use that narrative to craft stories to keep people’s anger and extremism directed inwards.
This isn’t some great mystery. It’s just the reality of what tyranny actually looks like.
Is your username a Behold the Arctopus reference?
Thank you for reminding me that this band exists.
Check out their latest album, it’s on their bamdcamp and on Colin’s youtube channel, it’s unreal
Hell yeah, glad they’re still putting out new stuff
Check my avatar
Oh wow idk why but on my version of Voyager I can’t see any avatars to the point that I was certain that there are no user avatars in here at all ;/ I’ll assume it’s that awsome album artwork made by Voivod drummer (like all of the other bta artworks) but I really can’t see it(
Edit: I mean if I could see it I wouldn’t’ve asked about the username (presuming that it is that album’s cover)
Voivod drummer? Brother only one BTA album has artwork by Away, it’s the split that has Paincave.
My avatar is the Skullgrid artwork.
The rest of them were done by Terry Grow, who also did some of the Dysrhythmia artworks (Defo Terminal threshold, maybe Psychic maps)
Voivod drummer? link explaination
I added the chapelle show clip “Truck diver?” to indicate the tone of voice to read “Voivod Drummer?” , not the rest of the sketch
You’re right, thank you for the correction🤝
Really? You don’t understand how a mentally disturbed person can gain easier access to a kindergarten than a board room?
Fuck yes!
Masked Gunman 2028.
He’s got a plan to take down trump.
But he’s a felon! oh wait…
In its very perverted logic, this assassination is good for capitalism. Every CEO can ask for a raise now.
Let’s increase each one’s pay by exactly three aerodynamic chunks of lead, to be deposited directly into their brainpans at supersonic speeds.
Subsonic, still very fast. The assassin used subsonic ammo because it isn’t nearly as loud. This is important.
He also was using a suppressor without a Nielsen device as they had to rack the slide after every shot. Telling me it wasn’t a professional hit.
Can you explain what this is, so that I don’t have to google it and end up on a list?
It uses gas pressure to allow the slide to reciprocate and load another bullet into the chamber. Most pistols with an attached suppressor need this because of how blow back tilting barrels work.
Much more importantly you should just get tor browser and use duckduckgo. This way you can search and you’re not expressing interest on a federated board that can cache what you say indefinitely.
One of the strengths of capitalism is that it can profit both off stability and off turmoil. It literally cannot lose
That’s why I feel progress should be made by leveraging capitalism instead of nuking it.
Capitalism tries to nuke itself that’s why it’s often heavily regulated. It’s only positive is that it allows for rapid production. Which is also it’s greatest drawback.
I absolutely agree
It’s already been tried with social democracies. They cannot last because capitalism is inherently rapacious by nature and tends to maximize the extraction of surplus value in the long run.
Seems to be working well in the Nordics. Or does that not fit the definition?
You mean the same countries that have been having issues with managing the growing number of immigrants and the strain they put on the welfare system?
Wait… are you talking about the Nordics ore just Sweden?
Oh yeah migration is going to become world war insanity. You think unfettered capitalism deals with migrants better? They’re already ceding land to the federal government in Texas for
concentration campsdeportation centers.You aren’t talking to a stan for capitalism.
You have to ask “At whose expense?”
Ok, I’ll play.
At whose expense?
Sorry, just saw this. The answer is at the expense of the global south. Those social democracies still have companies that profit off of the labor and resources of the global south.
What if it’s impossible to leverage it without falling into a cyberpunk dystopia?
Oh boy I have a lemmy instance for you then
No, you don’t. You love creating strange monsters and then quelling them to make your arts seem something, as Jonson brilliantly put it. I prefer thinking that things can be changed by the people who need change the most instead of hoping for utter sociopaths to discover an empathy they’ve never shown proof of.
Yep, they should form a union and demand hazard pay on their CBAs.
Lol “How will you attract talent?” thats always been the argument why do think their pay has increased so much while labor wage has stagnated.
Seems risky for the perpetrator, won’t they be able to trace who rented the bike?
They took the ebike into central park and got away on foot from there. I doubt they’re the one that rented the bike or if they did, they did it with fake info and a prepaid card. Once they got to central park they probably swapped into a new set of clothes out of that backpack and disapeared.
Not just new clothes, probably a reversible backpack so when leaving the park the backpack wasn’t even the same color.
Y’all really just crafting whatever narrative you want in your heads, aren’t ya?
What does your little voice have you do? Mine is a movie director and you are ruining the plot…
Might as well. No empathy for merchants of death.
The insurance companies are the death panels politicians used to talk about like the bogeyman, not the government.
Don’t really give a shit about any of the rich assholes making decisions about who should die just to increase shareholder returns.
What does any of that have to do with the comment chain? I was commenting on how people are just running wild with their imagination instead of sticking to facts.
If you only care about the facts, read the fucking article and ignore the comments. No one here is an expert or involved in the investigation, we’re here to talk about it.
For whatever reason, you seem to not understand the function of a comment section, and feel the need to voice that. Not sure why.
You okay, mate?
Word is it wasn’t a rental bike after all which is probably smarter.
They can trace the credit card. Whether or not that leads to the actual shooter is a different matter.
Step 1
Walk into a Walgreens and buy a prepaid visa with cash
Walgreens is a bad choice. They’ve invested a ton of money into cameras and surveillance for their locations. Almost on the level of Target for loss prevention.
They probably know which Walgreen’s it was bought in and can check when it was bought, likely there are cameras in the store. Hope the dude was wise enough to wear a mask or some other disguise.
Camera footage takes up more storage than most companies are willing to pay for, especially for retail. Any footage was likely overwritten beyond a certain point, assuming the drive is even still functional after years of wear and tear.
Edit: For a rough calculator https://www.seagate.com/video-storage-calculator/
That’s a great tool, thanks.
It it were really planned couldn’t someone just wait a month or so? They’re not storing footage for that long.
That’s true, if it was really planned to the tee it was probably something like https://www.bitrefill.com/us/en/gift-cards/virtual-prepaid-visa-usa/
Edit:
Or more likely:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/lime-scooter-accounts-for-sale-dark-web/
They would have to go through the ebike company, and that could take some time
Apparently some corporate dick sucker scrapes the public feeds for the bikes and volunteered the information for the likely bike pretty much immediately.
Booooo. Can we add that guy to the list?
Corpo netrunners, you say?
His defence will be that his Cyberdyne nanotech brain implants malfunctioned.
Much cheaper than giving a CEO a golden parachute
For CEOs,
plata oplomo
Do we have sauce?
The Internet is the sauce for this one, it’s still cooking
Copayback. I’ve never smiled as much as I have today. Random Shooter can have anything he wants or needs from me, an alibi, a bike rental, a kidney.
Tying a gift card to a balloon and writing a note to go with it “God bless the CEO slayer”
That video is just so wonderful. He executes him so smoothly, hardly moving, and leaves with a smile. I love it.
I’m out of the loop. Please, explain.
American hero, Agent 47/John Wick/etc, shot the CEO of United Healthcare and killed him at 7am in front of the Hilton Hotel in Manhattan.
He had “Deny, Defend, Depose” carved into the shell casings of the spent cartridges he used to kill the parasite.
He then rode away on an E-Bike and hasn’t been seen since.
As an aside, another proposed moniker for this hero is “Lancelot”, as he has clearly slain a dragon. Three cheers for the Dragonslayer!
Don’t insult dragons by comparing them to a fuckin health insurance exec!
I’m speaking, of course, of greedy, wealth hoarding dragons like Smaug. Who would slaughter an entire mountain of Dwarves to get his claws on wealth he will never spend, just to have it.
His name is Spartacus.
I am Spartacus.
I can’t wait for some kind of cyberpunk asshole nuke to blow up the pentagon in the next episode of reality
Nah, they need to do it at Black Rock HQ.
Alexa, Play The Rebel Path(Cello Version)
Perhaps the 9mm pistol is the guillotine of the next American revolution.
absolutely
You’ve said this on so many posts I’m struggling to keep track of which ones I’ve seen before. It’s not a criticism, just saying you’re messing with my melon maaaan.
Sorry. I hope your melon has recovered.
Wow, you weren’t kidding. I wish I had that much confidence in my comments
Such a tragic loss! He’s going to miss those dictionary bullets! Each bullet comes with one word written on it…live, life, laugh are probably still I’m the barrel
