• @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      Silly tardigrade’s playing on the wrong side of the bridge. Do they teach nothing at tardigrade music school?

        • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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          73 months ago

          It’s hard to tell. It looks deep like a cello, but the bridge doesn’t look quite high enough. Maybe at the tardigrade scale stringed instruments are made a little differently.

        • RuBisCO
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          223 months ago

          TIL. Thank you!

          but the piece that truly brought him to international attention was Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima (see threnody and atomic bombing of Hiroshima), written in 1960 for 52 string instruments. In it, he makes use of extended instrumental techniques (for example, playing behind the bridge, bowing on the tailpiece).

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krzysztof_Penderecki

          • @ylph@lemmy.world
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            The Threnody is definitely his most famous, but he has used that technique in some of his solo compositions for cello as well - example

            • RuBisCO
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              83 months ago

              Oh WOW!
              That’s…something else entirely.
              So violent! Yet also subtle and quiet.
              Yields immediate visceral reactions.
              The entire instrument is so thoroughly explored.
              How does one remember such a piece?
              Or keep the original bow and strings to the end?
              Striking. Marvelous. Beautiful. I’m all for it.

              An amendment of something conjured by it:

              It’s not safe out here. It’s wonderous; with treasures vibrations to satiate desires both subtle and gross, but it’s not for the timid.

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    You know what’s pretty neat about this?

    It’s not mob justice. Mob justice is when people get together and come up with bad ideas. This is an individual that the public has now rallied around.

    While we only see comments from a select few number of people in this country (relative to it’s size of 350m) it seems that democracy is voicing itself. I know a lot of people who were initially shocked, but then quickly came to the conclusion that FAFO is a real thing.

    And health insurance companies have done a lot of fucking around.

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        We don’t know the implications of this. But there got to be something big coming our way.

        Ruling class will not have their lieutenant punished like this in a broad day light with out lashing out.

        They already despise as is, they gonna step up brutality imho screw here, screw there.

        • @Passerby6497@lemmy.world
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          293 months ago

          That’s just going to pour gas on the fire. The less people have to lose, the more likely they’re going to take matters into their own hands.

          • granolabar
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            You aint wrong but ruling class can’[t accept one of their officers being gunned down by what appears to be a pleb with vendetta and he get away with it while rest of us cheer him on as a hero.

            This is about power, and the the people with power feeling insecure.

            Time will tell. I expect things to get worse before/if they ever get better for the working class.

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      “Mob justice” is a boogeyman invented to distract you from the fact that the cops and the state give you no justice at all.

      • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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        It’s not even mob justice, it’s vigilante justice. It just so happens in this case practically everyone is pretty happy about it having happened.

        The mob never called for this CEO’s death, we’re just not sad he was killed. Even if in general most of us wouldn’t actively call for people to be killed.

        If it makes CEOs afraid, then fantastic, a nice happy side-bonus.

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          Yeah, and that’s all true, but in the comment I replied to was room for the implication that “mob justice” is a problem somehow.

          We’re told it would be chaos, some great threat to society, but like, the only examples of mobs that I can think of doing any real damage are groups whose immediate aims were supported by the ruling class. Lynchings in the US south were openly permitted and encouraged by the entrenched white supremacist police state. Witch burnings were encouraged by the state to disenfranchise women from power over their own bodies, and they laid the foundations for capitalism.

          Then those horrific examples of state oppression are presented to us as examples of the horrors that await if we were to ever stop bowing to that same state and take matters into our own hands.

          Even if the person making the comment didn’t intend to reinforce that notion, it’s a default assumption for many people and I didn’t want it to stand unchallenged.

  • @Machinist@lemmy.world
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    1043 months ago

    Man, this shit just keeps being funny. The longer it stays funny, the better it affects all involved.

  • @db2@lemmy.world
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    793 months ago

    Something something and I’m tired of pretending it isn’t, etc. The only thing I feel bad about is if he has had young children who couldn’t understand he was a waste of skin, they have my sympathy.

      • HubertManne
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        yeah alls his theoretical kids would have is millions of dollars, the best education, a lavish lifestyle, trust funds, but they would not have their asshole dad.

          • sunzu2
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            So do many people who have their claims denied…

            • @Zangoose@lemmy.world
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              You can feel bad for his family while also not feeling bad about his death. Losing a loved one is hard regardless of how much money you have. That doesn’t mean it wasn’t ultimately a net positive (although I’m doubtful that UH will actually change any policies because of this)

              • sunzu2
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                Don’t the crime if you can’t do the time?

                That’s the life his father chose for them.

              • @moody@lemmings.world
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                83 months ago

                I feel bad for his kids. They didn’t choose their parents.

                His wife on the other hand did choose him, so fuck her too.

                • sunzu2
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                  Aren’t they already seperated?

                  So she is about to paid out big time with blood money he stole…

                  Yeah real peach

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                  He and this wife didn’t choose their parents either (and any other contributing factors in their environment that made them who they are). Growing older doesn’t change the causes of the development of their brain, the cause of the choices you make, and if we could have saved them from becoming the person they did then we should.

                  With even the most evil people we can be sad they died but also happy they can’t do more evil. Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein did some evil stuff and and if we could have prevented him from becoming the person he did when at age 8 or at age 18 then it’s the same.

                • @Zangoose@lemmy.world
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                  43 months ago

                  What priorities are there? I’m talking about emotions, not actions.

                  You can feel bad for both the children of this guy that will now grow up without a father and the millions of people he harmed at the same time. I’m not even saying I feel equally as bad for his children as his victims’ children (because losing a parent to a preventable death due to insurance is objectively a worse situation). All I’m saying is it’s reasonable to feel sympathy for both. It’s not like the kids had a choice in what their dad did.

          • HubertManne
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            Well I did not know so until this moment for me it was theoretical. It does not matter but now I know.

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        I would honestly go so far as to suggest that in the long term, not having this monster raise them (given they’ll still have plenty of money) probably leaves them better off.

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          His kids are gonna be worse 20-40milliom per head.

          They will be fine. I doubt they will ever understand why entire society turned on their parasite shitstain father.

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          They’re already teenagers. The damage has been done, but hopefully this act will help them decide not to follow in their father’s footsteps.

        • @zbyte64@awful.systems
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          These execs are scared their own children will ask them to explain what they do for a living. Doubt they raise their kids as much as they pay someone else to do it. That being said, Elmo’s kids are stuck on a compound. That’s definitely going to mess them up.

    • _cryptagion [he/him]
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      His kids have been profiting off of the death he had a hand in. They’ll be just fine in their ivory towers, whatever happens.

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    “United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s final KD ratio (7,652,103:1) lands him among the all time greats,” a thread deleted by r/interestingasfuck moderators said.

  • @Guilherme@lemm.ee
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    Serious? People are reacting with laughing emojis? Really?

    😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆 😆
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  • @General_Effort@lemmy.world
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    .world is in the EU. The same laws that apply to inciting hate or violence against “The Jews” or “The Blacks” also apply to “The CEOs”. And the same laws that apply to Facebook also apply to lemmy.

  • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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    I’ve been pretty impressed that the shooter has so far evaded police. I can only imagine that there have been at least one or two incidents thus far where people, be it cops or witnesses, had a clear opportunity to take actions that would lead to his immediate capture, but decided not to.

    From what I know, cops often rely on the cooperation of the public to resolve crimes, but they may not be getting any on this one.

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        Don’t get scammed but if he ever needs a legal defense fund, I think the plebs can figure it out.

        He did job well, least we can do it pay respects

      • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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        Even if he did, any funds would be frozen. A Monero Address would be a better way of receiving money.

        Edit: Mind you, I expect him to very soon be arrested, so he wouldn’t really have any time to enjoy it.

        Edit 2: Look up Jim Bell. He wrote a very popular essay in the 90s.

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      When society gets to the point where you will die if you don’t do anything … or you will die if you do something …

      Eventually people realize that they will be punished, threatened or endangered no matter what they do or don’t do, some people will come to the conclusion that they would rather go down fighting.

      If you’re going to get screwed doing nothing, some would rather go out on a blaze of glory because they no longer have anything to lose.

      • @pdxfed@lemmy.world
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        113 months ago

        Falling Down was in my head this week. The number of people in the US that are close to it is so high, it’s barely fringe. Ironically Trump might just trigger a revolution when he tries to clamp down.

      • @shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip
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        693 months ago

        I am assuming that when this guy is caught, what we will find out is that his wife had cancer and died from it and they refused to honor their claims or something like that.

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          683 months ago

          Hopefully it doesn’t come to that, and he just never gets caught.

          If he does, it’s gonna be one hell of a gofundme campaign for his defense.

            • @WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
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              I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently. Taking it to trial and giving this guy a voice could make things so much worse for them. They’re afraid of creating a robin hood, and class solidarity; of giving the working class a hero and cause to rally around.

              They’re so close to creating a robot army that can suppress the masses. They just have to bide their time until revolution is impossible.

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                I legit think the state/oligarchy will kill him silently.

                Wouldn’t that backfire though?

                Won’t more people start thinking “So this guy killed a really important CEO and apparently never got caught nor faced repercussions… you know what…”

              • @vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works
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                If I was him id be in the Appalachians camping by now with no internet or cell connected devices. Id just wait a month or two and move all of my shit out of new york, mind you he may not even be a New Yorker he could be Californian for all we know.

        • Drusas
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          Dealing with insurance with a nonfatal chronic illness can also be infuriating. You have to keep fighting the same battle over and over and over again.

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          Or perhaps himself dying of a treatable disease they refused to pay for. He’ll be a hero either way, the question is how much.

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      Can we crowdfund this, and provide a crypto bounty as reward for targets, including politicians, in the same way there was a reward for information on the shooter?

      This would be to let those who step out of line know how much disdain there is for any of them in particular at any given moment, and the rewards can be split as needed.

      The proletariat needs alternative systems of leverage.

      This is for my Purge sequel screenplay, of course. One can dream.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell