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Blue Footed Booby posted:A bit of this, a bit of the internet giving deranged sadists other outlets, spree killing being more en vogue, the end of the leaded gas era, and probably a bunch of other factors of varying importance, some probably wildly unintuitive. According to the FBI, there have been about 250,000 unsolved murders in the U.S. since 1980 and the vast majority of them are related drugs/street crime (both killing people connected to it and random bystanders). There probably are still some "serial killers" involved with drug and gang-related activities, but those aren't who we typically picture when we think about serial killers. The son of Sam or Zodiac killer types seem to have legitimately decreased for some reason (getting caught earlier, becoming spree killers instead of serial killers, etc.) in the last few decades. The fact that the overall murder rate was plummeting almost uninterrupted from ~1994 through 2019 probably helped too.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Iirc that was how Petraeus got caught in his affair (saved Gmail drafts) Petreus and Broadwell both did that with their emails to communicate during their affair and that was how they had all of his leaks documented. What made it even more ridiculous is that this was a common tactic that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban were using to pass messages "securely" in parts of Afghanistan and Iraq with limited internet access. But, we know that this was a tactic they used because they caught terrorist cells using this method. So, Petreus was in charge of an anti-terrorism/anti-insurgency mission that relied on accessing messages that terrorists groups sent this way to break up cells... and then used that same method to hide his affair/leaks from the Army and assumed it would never get found out.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PiquantParvenu/status/1689104775135322112 Probably just that cops have lowered their standards for hiring, given one of the old sure fire tells for serial killers was “unable to get into the police or military” 🙃
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MixMasterMalaria posted:Does twitter save drafts of unsent tweets?
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In general it's safe to assume that nothing you enter into a large website is ever truly deleted. When you click the delete button, it just gets marked as "do not show" and shuffled off to an archive. Part of this is so they can fulfill court orders like this one well into the future, and part of it is that deleting stuff from a massive database is a technically more complex and pitfall-prone issue than you'd think Also if the service doesn't use end-to-end encryption (or if they claim to but you don't fully trust them), they and the cops can read your DMs
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The FBI went to serve a warrant to search the house of a man in Utah who had allegedly been planning to assassinate Alvin Bragg by ambushing him in a parking lot with a Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm and made threats to assassinate Joe Biden. When they went to serve the warrant, he attacked the FBI agents (not specified if it was with a weapon) and he was shot to death. https://twitter.com/Tom_Winter/status/1689351284090961921 quote:FBI fatally shoots man in Utah who allegedly threatened Biden, Alvin Bragg and others quote:“I’ll be waiting in the courthouse parking garage with my suppressed Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm to smoke a radical fool prosecutor that should never have been elected,” the charging documents said. “I want to stand over Bragg and put a nice hole in his forehead with my 9mm and watch him twitch as a drop of blood oozes from the hole as his life ebbs away to hell!” quote:On Monday, Robertson allegedly made a threat saying, “I hear Biden is coming to Utah. Digging out my old Ghille suit and cleaning the dust off the M24 Sniper rifle." quote:A senior administration official tells NBC News that Biden was briefed on the FBI raid Wednesday morning, ahead of scheduled events in New Mexico. The White House is otherwise referring all questions to the Justice Department.
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Eason the Fifth posted:Iirc that was how Petraeus got caught in his affair (saved Gmail drafts) Petraeus thought he was being smart by communicating with his sidepiece via drafts (they would both log into the same account and modify the same draft). Apparently Al-Qaeda used to do the same, maybe that's where he got the idea. Or at least they did, but presumably they quickly switched to one of the numerous encrypted messaging services
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The FBI went to serve a warrant to search the house of a man in Utah who had allegedly been planning to assassinate Alvin Bragg by ambushing him in a parking lot with a Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm and made threats to assassinate Joe Biden. His poasts: https://twitter.com/AricToler/status/1689351235139182592
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Quote from man shot by FBI: "What are you going to do, FBI? Shoot me?"
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I really hope "the weapon" turns out to be an gun. Because while police shootings are Bad, the police shooting a man who has a gun in his hand and threatened to shoot them multiple times is not unreasonable.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The FBI went to serve a warrant to search the house of a man in Utah who had allegedly been planning to assassinate Alvin Bragg by ambushing him in a parking lot with a Smith & Wesson M&P 9mm and made threats to assassinate Joe Biden. CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 21:32 on Aug 9, 2023 |
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i wonder if the meme template maker the Utah guy used flags text inputs like that. like god drat imagine pecking at your keyboard or small device , going through the template thing and going "yeah this is want i want to output into the world."
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I think that's built in to Facebook now, actually, you can just make posts that look like that. Boomers are on the cutting edge of Facebook stylin'.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Petraeus thought he was being smart by communicating with his sidepiece via drafts (they would both log into the same account and modify the same draft). Apparently Al-Qaeda used to do the same, maybe that's where he got the idea. Or at least they did, but presumably they quickly switched to one of the numerous encrypted messaging services How do you catch someone using this method?
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PhazonLink posted:i wonder if the meme template maker the Utah guy used flags text inputs like that. 
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The emotional disconnect with the "crying from laughter" emotes registering to a lot of older folks as just "crying" will never not be mind boggling for me.
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Ither posted:How do you catch someone using this method?
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Push El Burrito posted:Serial killers were just replaced with mass killers. A lot of serial killers were terrorists who targeted sex workers, black people, horny teenagers, and other people reactionaries hate.
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VideoGameVet posted:I am literally hungry all the time because my body thinks it's in a famine after losing 1/3 of it's mass ... even a 1/4 century later. Yes, bodies remember that. On top of this being an extremely difficult thing to do because bodies are built to keep you alive, calorie deprivation is thus a Major Problem, and your body will change its endocrine signals literally to make you eat more, there are a LOT of medications where weight gain is a side effect, to the tune of about 1/5 of US adults taking at least one drug that can cause it. Fat people have always existed, "just lose the weight/calories in calories out ez pz" is bullshit, and for those who struggle with weight / fatphobia, I recommend checking out HAES (health at every size). In other news so I don't eat a probe on this derail, but that poo poo is important to me, a new COVID variant is on the rise with some extra immune escape.
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Mellow Seas posted:Soooo, uhhhh, as a civil engineer how would I go about getting one of these gold-bucket sham jobs? I too would like to know this. Sales/consulting background.
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Ither posted:How do you catch someone using this method? Petreus got caught because the FBI was investigating who leaked classified information and he was signing on to this email from military computers. Al-Qaeda and the Taliban got caught because they found phones that were logged in to the Gmail accounts still.
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zoux posted:https://twitter.com/PiquantParvenu/status/1689104775135322112 Maybe most of them become mass shooters these days?
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OctaMurk posted:Eh, it aint exactly csi out there. Like half of murders go unsolved. Im sure a good murderer could get away with a lot. Yeah, but if you separately kill four people the odds of you going uncaught go down to 6.25%. If you kill another after that they go down to 3.125%, etc...
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No one wants to serial kill anymore
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It's a lot harder to serial kill than it was before. Serial killers are not compensated enough.
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Mirotic posted:Yes, bodies remember that.
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Pretty sure his only plan for these Conservatopia cities is to have the biggest buildings. With at least one taller than the Dubai Tower.
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Trying to imagine Trump's Big Beautiful Cities. Mandatory casinos at the center of town? Busses are illegal? Located as far as possible from anywhere anyone would want to live?
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So...more fake news? That RWM will explain to me within maybe 24 hours? Can't wait to learn that they found some books that explain why he was far left. Or that it was a set up/false flag. I mean, if that already hasn't happened.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Trying to imagine Trump's Big Beautiful Cities. Mandatory casinos at the center of town? Busses are illegal? Located as far as possible from anywhere anyone would want to live? In Russia? https://www.businessinsider.com/russia-build-village-catholic-christian-americans-tired-liberals-claim-lawyer-2023-5
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CapnAndy posted:Never forget that your body is a finely tuned machine, precision-engineered to perform its role... of being a hunter-gatherer for whom food insecurity is a major issue, because 25,000 years is an evolutionary eyeblink. So it's constantly going "ooh! Fats! You found fats! Those are hard to get, eat a bunch!" and "Hey, wow, is that a calorie surplus? Lucky day for us! No worries, I'll sock away the extra for the lean times" and other poo poo that is just not helpful in a world where you know where your next meal is coming from. Who says I know where my next meal is coming from? It could be Arby's, it could be Taco Bell, it could be Domino's....
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Building new cities with forward thinking urban planning wouldn't be the worst thing if it meant getting around NIMBY bs and designing without car-centric hellscapes. Not that Trump's plan would be such cities and of course ignoring that cities exist where they are for a host of geographic and geological reason.Shooting Blanks posted:Who says I know where my next meal is coming from? It could be Arby's, it could be Taco Bell, it could be Domino's.... I thought the new dipping taco from bell tasted *vaguely* like a real taco if you completely drown it in in the red sauce. It was super weird and made me wish there was a taco stand locally. MixMasterMalaria fucked around with this message at 03:29 on Aug 10, 2023 |
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Charlz Guybon posted:Yeah, but if you separately kill four people the odds of you going uncaught go down to 6.25%. If you kill another after that they go down to 3.125%, etc... Theres likely a lot of easy to solve murders by people bad at murdering, and then some number of murders by people who are good at murdering and dont leave a lot evidence. I dont think every murder is just some coinflip where it gets solved or not.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Trying to imagine Trump's Big Beautiful Cities. Located as far as possible from anywhere anyone would want to live? please do not be rude to Bismarck, North Dakota
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Interesting map. Really shows how the Dobbs decision keeps overcharging Dem turnout. https://twitter.com/OpinionToday/status/1689458327296868352
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Charlz Guybon posted:Maybe most of them become mass shooters these days? Maybe I'm wrong but the typical profiles and motivations seem different enough that I'm skeptical that most of them "just gotta kill" in a way that serial or parallel killing can just substitute for each other.
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TheDeadlyShoe posted:Trying to imagine Trump's Big Beautiful Cities. Mandatory casinos at the center of town? Busses are illegal? Located as far as possible from anywhere anyone would want to live? Alt-1985 Hill Valley
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I am excited for the first republican presidential debate. The horse race excites me and is fun to watch.
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Do you have strong opinions on dietary issues and like telling people what's what? They have got something for you tomorrow! REMINDER: Registration Opens Tomorrow to Provide Oral Public Comments to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (Aug 09, 2023) www.usda.gov posted:The U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Agriculture invite the public to provide oral comments to the 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee virtually during its third meeting on September 12-13, 2023. Registration is required and will open tomorrow, August 10, 2023, at 10 a.m. EST on DietaryGuidelines.gov. 400 words or "less" (fewer?), folks.
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