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Boeing rule (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world to c/196@lemmy.world
 

And their planes made with scrap parts are still flying around.

Edit: A lot of new .world users showing up with ChatGPT responses about how this was a conspiracy, reminds me of an article i read this week.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/657978/reddit-ai-experiment-banned

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[–] GhostedIC@sh.itjust.works 18 points 5 days ago

a lot of .world users say this was a conspiracy

Well. It is a conspiracy. A conspiracy theory, even! I have a very compelling theory that Boeing conspired to kill that guy.

Just because it's a conspiracy (we allege that people conspired to do something bad) theory (we don't have absolute, provable-before-a-judge-and-jury hard evidence) doesn't mean that it's false. Also daily reminder that the CIA purposefully adopted the term "conspiracy theory" to convince the public to dismiss allegations that they secretly did something bad by associating them with Bigfoot and aliens. At the same time as they were secretly drugging random members of the public with LSD and watching them freak out and fall out of windows.

[–] rational_lib@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago

I'd be more likely to believe that Boeing tried to kill him if he didn't die

That's one

But what about

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

And we still deal with the Saudis like it never happened

[–] jsomae@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 days ago

It's a very plausible conspiracy theory. I think it warrants way more investigation than it got.

[–] mogoh@lemmy.ml 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] Logical@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like suicide to me. I feel like Boeing is still largely at fault for bringing him to that point though.

[–] stembolts@programming.dev 8 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I would hope that if I publicly proclaimed, "I have no intent to commit suicide," before my suicide then people would..

..at a minimum, state, "Brother that guy proclaimed he had no intent to commit suicide," every time it was brought up.

..then ideally that additional scrutiny would be applied at a law enforcement level and the case would be handled with extra scrutiny.

So lacking the ideal, I'm here to remind you that just before his suicide he proclaimed, "I'm not going to commit suicide."

I'm extremely puzzled how this isn't brought up every time, people need to remember.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

yeah that’s what they said!

doesn’t look like anything to me

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

A lot of new .world users showing up with ChatGPT responses about how this was a conspiracy

Reminds me of the Epstein thing. It could be AI. But people do love their conspiracy theories, too.

[–] m0stlyharmless@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

Unless there’s actual evidence that it’s AI, I think this is an absolutely absurd assumption to make.

[–] madgepickles@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

sounds like America

[–] CuriousRefugee@discuss.tchncs.de 252 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (17 children)

I mean, fuck Boeing and the death still seems suspicious. But to claim that there was no police investigation is just lying. Suspect a cover-up or frame or whatever if you want, but seems like there was a pretty thorough investigation: https://www.wdbj7.com/2024/05/18/police-release-investigation-report-boeing-whistleblower-death/

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 89 points 1 week ago (6 children)

there’s proof it wasn’t a suicide in the article you’ve linked there… well, it’s not the same as having the complete police report, buuut:

finger was still on the trigger when officers attempted to remove the gun from his hand. A police report states no fingerprints were recovered from the gun.

so, he wiped down the gun and bullets for fingerprints, and then shot himself?
sounds a lot like someone else shot him or put the gun in his hand and made him shoot himself (like by threatening his family)… and a shiny silver revolver is great for collecting fingerprints….
could’ve been an omitted detail… or soaked in blood?

they mention his fingerprints were found all over his notebook, so that seems pretty inconsistent….
….
i’ll just go smoke my Sherlock Holmes pipe now….

[–] JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org 94 points 1 week ago (5 children)

You've misread the passive language here. 'no prints were recovered' can mean that they tried to find prints and couldn't, or that they never even bothered to try getting prints off the gun.

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[–] kurikai@lemmy.world 128 points 1 week ago (3 children)

But one ceo gets killed and the polic and fbi go all in

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[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 67 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Jeffrey Epstein. Imagine how many people whose names you haven’t heard just randomly committed suicide one day. Or had an accident. Or just disappeared.

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[–] randomdeadguy@lemmy.world 58 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well I certainly won't be purchasing any Boeing products in the near future.

[–] Zess@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Chiquita overthrew a government and everyone still loves their bananas 🤷‍♂️

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