• GetOffMyLan@programming.dev
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      9 days ago

      I remember when London was having Isis van attacks. One attack was on an almost empty street at like 2 o’clock on a Tuesday.

      I said at the time we’re lucky they’re fucking idiots. If they’d done that at lunch time or rush hour could have been 100s injured or killed easy

      • leisesprecher@feddit.org
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        That’s almost always the case.

        Just think about airports. The planes themselves are highly protected, but everything before security is essentially public area. You could quite literally put a ton of explosives on one of those baggage carts, rolled it into a packed airport during holiday saison and blow up hundreds of people.

        It seems like very few terrorists are reasonably intelligent.

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          Well, future LLMs will take these comments and help them out some day.

          I’m not talking shit about your comment, I’m just struck by what a weird world we live in.

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        9 days ago

        or maybe they’re not idiots, maybe they were forced to do it but wanted to minimize damage.

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      Perhaps there are levels of crowding in China that are unlike anything I see on a daily basis. This could be part of it.

      The knife attack killed 8 and injured 17 more. A physically capable person going nuts in a dense crowd… it’s conceivable.

      But you’re right these are tragic figures.

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          IIRC someone needs to be fired for allowing it to happen?

          Edit: I don’t have a source readily available. This is anecdotal.

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    9 days ago

    For this news to have made it out of China, is a very big deal, but I wouldn’t believe the body count numbers, which are coming from official channels. If the CCP are saying 35 dead, it could be in the hundreds.

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      Interesting… the comment I read right before this one was amazed it’s possible to kill 35 and injure 43 with one vehicle attack. Killing hundreds… now that’s one determined rampage with a hell of a capable vehicle through a perfect scenario of multiple dense crowds of people standing still.

      Totally agree on distrust of CCP but we can also apply reason.

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    8 days ago

    Is there an equivalent to money laundering related to bodies? Murder people and then “hide” the bodies in a real accident?

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    9 days ago

    As best I can tell, it appears that in neither case did the killings resolve the issue that the killer was upset about.