Idgaf what anyone says, that mf is a hero
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That’s the one fucking thing that I don’t understand about US psychos.
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.
They like preying on the vulnerable
Really? You don’t understand how a mentally disturbed person can gain easier access to a kindergarten than a board room?
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
It’s so great knowing other people are aware of behold.
The world needs more Mike Lerner guitar solos, also check out Wax People (he’s not on any recordings yet, but metal needs more noisy wind instruments)
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🤝
Masked Gunman 2028.
But he’s a felon! oh wait…
He hasn’t been convicted yet. I don’t think they’ll find a jury that will, either.
He’s got a plan to take down trump.
Fuck yes!
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 frown on that sort of thing
Not only that…
Damn. Guess I’ll have to find another career path.
Or find another country? May I suggest one that won’t restrict ma fre… I mean ya freedoms so dang much?!
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.
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.
Nah, they happen. Just at way, way lower rates than in the U.S.
Swede here, yeah they absolutely can.
Russian assault group making u-turn on their electrical scooters
Well, they’re illegal there aren’t they?
They do
No it’s illegal!
In Sweden, it’s forbidden by law to be a criminal.
Look, if Elon got run over by a Tesla, everyone would be laughing it off right now. If putin got smashed between a large truck and another large truck or by some other means like a large steel plate, everyone would be more than ecstatic. I would do a little dance myself. So I think we should just not try to figure out who did this too hard. It just happens sometimes. Right?
Cuz nobody figures out who denied your claim when your dad had to die right? Where’s the justice there? This is it! This is the justice. Don’t want it? Well then implement a better way to get justice. As, is, this is great.
Hey gun crime is just a reality we have to live with, according to the Republicans in Congress. So I don’t see any reason to make a big fuss just because this rich bastard accidentally feel into some bullets, instead of the usual bunch of innocent children or random black person the cops decided to shoot while face down and in handcuffs. No, I’m sure the police have much more serious police matters to attend to, like civil forfeiture on somebody carrying a large amount of cash or selling appropriated weapons to drug cartels.
If somehow Trump died because of a stupid mistake on his part I’d take the rest of the week off and dance like it’s THON
THON
The Happiest of Nights?
A dance-for-charity event at The Pennsylvania State University whose name I personally haven’t heard in a minute
Nah, Thick Hippies of Norway.
Thick Hippies of Norway.
*sigh <switches websites>
Look, if Elon got run over by a Tesla, everyone would be laughing it off right now.
I think he should have demonstrated the use of that metal tube he wanted to use as a rescue sub to rescue those kids in the thai cave. Best way to demonstrate its safe is to go into it yourself.
Or he could use a pseudonym and work remote from one of the companies he owns and see how long he lasts as a worker. He thinks he can judge other peoples code? lets see his medicore bitchass show up and show us all how its done.
That guy sucks.
Maybe he could go get the remains of the Titan. Who knows what we could learn from that.
Cuz nobody figures out who denied your claim when your dad had to die right?
This is part of the hell that we live in.
If you have a complaint about any corporation, you can’t do anything about it. They all run phone trees designed to waste your time and make it impossible to reach anyone who can actually do anything. They pay call center workers in India nothing to take the frustration which should be directed at the C-suites.
We live in a world with zero accountability for anyone with a sizable bank account.
Come now. Everyone knows pootin doesn’t like heights or falling out windows
Oh that’s right! He loves the planet. I wish to offer him a planet hug from 7 stories away.
People got so hung up on cool cyberware and Johnny Silverhand that they completely forgot Cyberpunk was a warning.
who wouldn’t want to have e-narrator Keanu in their mind sarcastically commenting their every move ? I’ve already preordered
Look Mom, I’m on the top of Arasaka tower.
Did they put that in the game? If they did that is almost certainly a tip of the hat to Rico Rodriguez, from the Just Cause series
I think it’s from Edgerunners.
Ok, well then Edgerunners seems to be giving Rico a nod. That show came out decades after Just Cause, where if you manage to get to the highest point on any of the four maps, Rico says “Look Ma! Top of The World!” in JC1 and all subsequent games the line was, “Look Ma! Top of The World! … … again.”
Oh, they’re both quoting James Cagney in White Heat from 1949.
Fair enough. I am not sure how many James Cagney films I’ve seen, but I would wager that I could count them on one hand.
That’s it, I officially get my news mostly from memes
First time?
No, that’s kinda what I meant
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 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.
Corpo netrunners, you say?
Booooo. Can we add that guy to the list?
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
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.
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/
It it were really planned couldn’t someone just wait a month or so? They’re not storing footage for that long.
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.
Agreed, see my follow up comments for better approaches
born too early to fight in the post-apocalypse wasteland, born too late to fight in the pre-apocalypse waste land, born just in time to fight billionaires in the peri-apocalyptic wasteland.
Of the 3 scenarios, this is the only one that lets me focus my rage on people who deserve it.
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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.
Perhaps the 9mm pistol is the guillotine of the next American revolution.
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.
Wow, you weren’t kidding. I wish I had that much confidence in my comments
Sorry. I hope your melon has recovered.
absolutely
Much cheaper than giving a CEO a golden parachute
For CEOs,
plata oplomo
but wait, it gets even more cyberpunk: the security cam footage is on streamable! :o https://streamable.com/2e8p4v
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Already down, shame.
It’s also on Wikipedia and Know Your Meme
It’s down now. :(
God can we please get 4k security cameras before the first corpo war
No. It’s better this way.
Some people are still trying to buy 2mpx if it saves them money.
In its very perverted logic, this assassination is good for capitalism. Every CEO can ask for a raise now.
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.
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 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.
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?
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.
Wait… are you talking about the Nordics ore just Sweden?
Mostly Quarto Oggiaro, sometimes Bovisa in the weekend.
I absolutely agree
What if it’s impossible to leverage it without falling into a cyberpunk dystopia?
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.
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.
Why do you think this means I don’t have a lemmy instance for them? Also you sound like a bot
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.
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Yep, they should form a union and demand hazard pay on their CBAs.
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.
There was that meme about things we are bringing back in the 2020s from the 1920s, that included anarcho-syndicalism.
I guess that was a miscalculation, we are actually bringing back even earlier forms of anarchism. 💣
Is “Propaganda of the Deed” gonna be the hottest new trend on Tik Tok in 2025? Wait and find out!
Now let’s add a bit of Ghost in the Shell where the shooter is invisible because no one has organic eyes anymore… And he has an electronic scrambling technology
You forgot the funniest part from the movie: when the man was hacked into believing he had a wonderful life with a wife and daughter, when he was really just living in a tiny shitty apartment. Completely broke his mind lmao
😂
This felt more Snow Crash to me. The recent history of manipulation going on in social media is definitely Stand Alone Complex territory though.
I bet it was that guy who got denied an upgraded robotic leg battery.
He hacked my eyes!!
wasn’t that also somehow a plotline on altered carbon?
Hmm yes with the Yakuza leader being killed I believe?
