WoodScientist @ WoodScientist @sh.itjust.works Posts 0Comments 345Joined 1 mo. ago
Ok. Then you just transfer the chain back one level. Who did he buy it from? Think about the logistics of buying one of those. Imagine you wanted to buy a ghost gun. How would you actually go about doing that? Yes, organized crime rings and gangs may make these things, but they don't just sell them to any random kid who walks up wanting to buy one. They'll obtain them for their own trusted members. But if a random white kid shows up looking to buy a gun, the thought of most people would be that this guy is planning a school shooting. And no gang wants that type of heat.
It's only the extremely wealthy that can kill with impunity in our legal system. If someone shoots a relative of mine, I don't need to go hunt them down and take care of them myself. For that type of crime, the justice system will try to hold them to account. It is only the crimes of the wealthy and powerful that are not punished by the law. Kill one person with a knife? Life in prison. Kill tens thousand with a pen? You're a job creator.
I am not worried about a mass campaign of bloody violence unleashed upon the entire population. The kinds of grievances ordinary people have against one another can already be handled in the criminal and civil courts. It is only the crimes of murderers like Thompson that go unpunished. They are the only ones at risk in such a campaign.
Luigi's only crime was denying Brian Thompson due process. His crime was the same as that of a police officer that illegally searches someone's car. Morally, that's the level of offense of what Luigi did.
In a just world, Brian Thompson would have been charged, tried, convicted, and hanged for the thousands of people he killed. Make no mistake, he was a murderer. If there is a Hell below, he is burning there now. The number of people he killed make Osama Bin Ladin's numbers look like amateur hour. Brian Thompson, in any justice system that endorses the death penalty, absolutely deserved to die. Luigi's main crime was denying Thompson his day in court and the ability to face his accuser. But, then again, it's not like we gave Osama his day in court either. We shot that like a dog and dumped his body in the ocean, and no one batted an eye. We all celebrated it, and no one wept for him being denied a fair trial. Osama never got his due process and day in court.
Most of that just shows he was in NYC at the time. The dude is a bi kid that was estranged from his family. His family was trying to get in touch with him for nearly a year, and apparently he's been living as a drifter in that time. His family is also very wealthy and has the resources to track him down. Is it not possible that he was just trying to hide from his family? Maybe he's a queer kid and his family rejected that, and he's broken contact with them. Traveling via a fake ID is a minor crime, but it doesn't prove that he's a murderer.
Equally plausible is that the police started putting on the media photos of every person that vaguely resembles the shooter that they could. Luigi saw his own picture on the news, and rightfully freaked the fuck out and decided to flee the city. And the online manifesto? Again, millions of people have written things that could similarly damn them.
Remember, the killer deliberately dressed in an outfit that hundreds of men are wearing in NYC at any given time. Unless you have a continuous video of Luigi going from the hostel, to the crime scene, shooting the guy, then leaving...you don't actually have much. Yes, I think the police can prove quite easily that Luigi was in the city, and that he was there on a fake ID. But they have precious little actually linking him directly to the crime.
Any person arrested where the police conveniently leave their body cams off should automatically be found not guilty.
What I want to know is - where is Luigi's workshop?
That kind of 3D printed gun isn't just something you can print off at the library and start blasting. Even for a skilled 3D printing expert with a workshop full of plastic and metal working tools, you're looking at months of prototyping, printing, fitting, testing out prototypes at a gun range, etc. It is possible for skilled crafters to build an untraceable gun from a 3D printed frame and pieces ordered off the net. But it's nothing like just hitting "print" and having a gun.
This is what really gets me. Luigi was apparently living as a drifter for the last year or so. His family had been trying to get in touch with him. A hostel is not the place where you're going to be able to make a 3D printed gun. You need a workshop, and one that you can operate in with a high degree of privacy for an extended period of time.
So, again, where is Luigi's workshop? 3D printed guns don't just materialized from nowhere. If Luigi made the gun, he must have a workshop. Unless the police can show where that workshop is, I'm going to assume the gun was planted on him.
Where is Luigi's workshop?
Watch them fuck up the implementation and suffer the worst PR disaster in recent history when they slap a paywall on r/suicidewatch.
He'll direct the savings to creating a new internal police force.
I'm not a trans guy, I'm a trans gal. But I can say I'm not in IT!
Elon Musk has personally now committed enough felonies to earn himself multiple life sentences. Let that sink in for a moment.
He either needs to stay in power forever, or he needs a pardon from the president. And if you're counting on that magnitude of a pardon, what other crimes might you be willing to do? If you already face potentially multiple life sentences, what's one more? I wouldn't put it past that bastard to be putting together that concentration camp at Gitmo so he can run unlicensed and involuntary Neuralink experiments on those poor people.
On the up side, I have always wanted to build a secret cabin in a national park....
And don't forget to primary the Hell out of any Democrat that has proven feckless and cowardly in this hour. Time for Fetterman to go, and many others. Anyone that voted against AOC for the committee seat needs to be primaried. Anyone that voted for a single one of Trump's cabinet nominees needs to be primaried. Purge the party. It is time for a purge.
It is time we start demanding the resignations of current Democrats serving in Congress. We don't need to wait til the midterm. If there is a Democratic lawmaker, from a state with a Democratic governor, that isn't using all their power to resist? We need to start protesting these people, demanding their immediate resignation from office. Hell, if we wait til the midterm, then we'll be right back at the place of "well, they're better than the Republican..." And primaries are difficult due to the immense costs and incumbent advantage.
Democrats are completely in the minority right now. What better time than now to purge the feckless do-nothing corporate Democrats from the party? Forget primarying Pelosi, we should be hounding her to immediately resign. She should have no peace. Force her to resign in disgrace, and Governor Newsome can then replace her with someone who is actually willing to fight.
I know nothing. There is not a single fact in this universe that I can state is unequivocally true. Even the most established laws of physics are just our best explanations of our observations to date. They're held up pretty damn well so far, but we don't know why they are the way they are. For all we know they could be part of some larger pattern we cannot see the whole of. It is entirely possible for the laws of physics to change tomorrow. Tomorrow the universe could change state, and suddenly astrology would actually work.
There is no such thing as an absolute truth. There are only things that explain, to greater or less reliability, all the things we observe. And it is not necessary to have the same level of proof to accept all propositions.
If you want to convince me that astrology now works, I am going to need a whole lot of evidence. If you want to convince me that the universe has reordered itself, and that planets now go around the Earth, I'm going to need a ton of evidence. But the reason I demand such evidence is that these are very consequential things. The order of the universe and our place in it is one of those Big questions with a capital B. And the laws of physics matter. My background is in structural engineering. If the laws of physics are changing, I damn well need to know about it. But I'm going to demand quite a lot of proof for that.
But some things? They are simply not worth the effort to question the veracity of. Whether this story is true or not has zero impact on my life. I can assume it's true, and if it's not, oh well. We can never be certain of anything, and the level of certainty we can achieve on anything is a function of the amount of effort we put in to assessing its validity. And for casual stories? There simply isn't need to drill deeper.
The only time I feel it worth to drill into the truth and question such a story is if it's a story potentially being used to target a marginalized group or community. Hate groups and individuals sometimes deliberately spread numerous negative casual stories about members of marginalized groups, simply to associate that group with negative things in the public consciousness. If this story mentioned the race or sexual orientation of the homeless guy, I would be a bit more suspect and skeptical.
But otherwise, what's wrong with a little willful suspension of disbelief? There is ultimately no such thing as a true thing or a false thing, just a sliding scale of truthfulness. Not even the laws of physics are absolute. You cannot determine the truth or falseness of anything. You can only determine how much effort it is worth to put in to investigating a thing.
Happy Day of Thor to you this fine afternoon!
It's called conservation of energy. The flame is hot and represents a local concentration of thermal energy. In order to concentrate this heat, thermal energy must be drawn from the outside air, greatly cooling it. This causes the air around the flame to appear black on film, as it is giving off much less light than the flame.
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