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This is what spammers, scammers, identity thieves, 'pig-butcherers', credit collections do.

It absolutely works.

Corporations lie blatantly all the fucking time.

Its just that they lie in ways that usually are not able to be legally defined as some kind of a legally actionable version of a lie.

They are usually more worried with ever having outwardly admitting something that they could be sued over, than they are with any kind of human to human sense of accountability or believability.

Every, single, thing they are mass releasing or designing as an official stance has gone through some kind of legal team, or a team under a legal team that follow's guidelines from a legal team.

This is just how megacorps work.

They are not people, they are a sociopathic machine, operated by people who very much tend to be sociopaths.

Here's the summarized version:

Be Polite.

Act as if you only understand 'the effects', have a nebulous notion of 'the cause'.

Act like you know little other than this, and insist they explain it to you like you are a five year old.

Waste as much of their time as possible, without becoming hotheaded, instead become sad-confused.

"I'm not so much angry, as I am disappointed" type of vibe / energy.

And if possible, be genuinely kind to the low level, actual people you talk to, they literally do not make the rules.

Yeah, so far this basically sounds to me like if the guy from Falling Down walked into the building Patrick Bateman works at.

At worst, from a tactical effectiveness standpoint.

If it actually was a more or less specifically targeted attack, it would absolutely make sense that this would be massively underplayed and misconstrued by the broad media...

Because the last thing the broad media wants, is a lot of pissed off, suicidal, heavily armed Americans realizing that this can actually be a shockingly effective tactic, for those with nothing left to lose, ready to meet God or w/e.

The broader media being basically a totally corporate owned affair, that really, really would prefer it not become normalized that ... (semi?) random corpos just start getting gun downed in roughly the American version of insurgent suicide tactics, who are to a great extent capable of acting totally solo and are thus impossible to completely prevent at scale.

Call it the 'final form' of 'I'd like to speak with your manager'.

Genuinely, what is your source that he had 'the wrong floor'?

To have 'the wrong floor' implies there was a 'correct floor', which implies either a premeditated set person or set of persons as a target, or a known location associated with some kind of organization or something.

If it was a random 'just hurt people' type of mass shooting, there cannot really be a 'wrong floor', beyond maybe a comparison between overall target rich snd target sparse environments...

Or perhaps it was 'the wrong floor' in the sense of 'the correct floor' being one that worked with some kind of egress, escape plan?

Seriously, what do you mean by 'the wrong floor?'

Yep.

It boils down to:

Reality is actually magic (ie, fundamentally incomprehensible and inconsistent), and our magic guide book, and my interpretation of said magic guide book, is more correct than any other book or person, because this book says it is, and says it is the bestest magical book, and I am the bestest knower of the magic book.

It is magical thinking, a worldview based on a psuedo reality derived from psuedo logic (where psuedo means 'fake', 'impostor', 'sham'), which is a key component of many cults and also severe psychological disorders.

Replace 'electricity' with 'wind' and/or 'moving air' and/or 'breath', and now you understand what Proto-Judaic Canaanites circa 800 BCE thought 'spirit' was.

She made her money running a company that removes 61,000 homes from the market as available for normal people to buy as their primary home.

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EDIT: want to be clear that she didn't deserve to die for the work she did,

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What would Spok say?

"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

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61,000 homes x bare minimum 2.6 avg household size = 158,600.

Homelessness rate in the US is now at least 3% of the total population.

158,600 x 0.03 = 4,758.

Homelessness is an extremely dangerous, life-threatening, often fatal condition.

In summary, nah, she absolutely deserved to die for the work she did, regardless of whatever the actual specifics of this incident are.

1 life vs almost 5k likely deaths?

This math ain't as hard as people seem to think.

If she ran a company that knowingly, intentionally, poisoned that many people's food or water, distributed that many HIV contaminated needles, sold that many defective airbags or brakepads...

...if the process wasn't so abstracted with so many steps, the moral judgement would be a lot easier for a lot more people to make.

Keep in mind: Her job was to literally operate and maintain the abstraction.

I have negative pity for this exploitative cancer formely emobodied in the form of a living human being.

Yep, the answer to many of these problems is I2P.

TOR was invented by the US Navy, roughly 1/3 of major entry/exit nodes are estimated to be comprimised / run as honeypots by various LE / Intel agencies, and said LE and Intel agencies also know how to, and have deanonimyed various people and groups on TOR that they really wanted to go after.

TOR ain't it.

I2P is a lot closer to 'it'.

The other part of the answer is:

Well, now it turns out data hoarders were not just paranoid weirdos, they actually had foresight.

If you can host your own at least several terabyte mini/curated backup of the Internet Archive, and plug that into I2P, then congrats, you now are the backup plan for when, not if, they get massively purged of even more of their content than has already been taken out in the last ~2 years.

The old cyberpunk line holds true in another sense of meaning:

The future is already here, it just isn't evenly distributed.

Oh I didn't think you were calling me crazy.

I've just been told that by many Americans who are actively losing their minds trying to balance their car payment, insurance, recent medical disaster, loss of income, etc, all while spending 6+ hours a day on whatever particular algorithically designed and manicured for them slop content app telling them who to be angry at and what items to buy to give them the desired personality.

I very much agree the fediverse is very important...

But I think that Elon actually primarily bought Twitter out of a massive, massive sense of insecurity.

He needs to be widely loved and adored and seen as 'a cool guy', so he just bought the platform so that he could be in control of his own personal adulation/worship machine.

In my opinion at least, everything else is secondary to, is an outgrowth of, is a cynical tactic that may shift at any time... all to primarily prevent his own ego from collapsing.

Could you explain 'Complaining from a high Niveau'?

I don't know what Niveua means, though I am guessing the phrase is roughly equivalent to 'Get off your high horse' or 'Check your privilege' or 'The view from the ivory tower'...

... which all roughly mean that a person has a fairly decent, wealthy and secure standard of living, and the stuggles of the poor either do not matter to them, or are literally not even conceivable to them, as they've never had to deal with those kinds of problems, and have no idea how difficult it is.

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But uh yeah... America hates the poor, and whats worst is that they've trained most of the poor to hate themselves and other poors, for being poor.

It is so obviously stupid when you break out of that mindset, but, its very well trained into us, very hard for many to escape.

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Regarding Jews/Israelis, I just wanna clarify a distinction there.

I have many Jewish relatives, here in the US.

They all despise what Israel, and Israeli Jews sre doing.

There are in fact more Jews in the US than there are Jews in Israel.

For a great many of them, the actions of the state of Israel do not speak for all Jews, and many US Jews denounce what they have been and are currently doing, many of them have been taking part in and even leading protests against the ongoing Palestinian Genocide.