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submitted 1 week ago by masterofn001@lemmy.ca to c/news@lemmy.world

An electronic traffic message board — normally the forum for messages like “right lane closed ahead” — had been reprogrammed with an ominous message.

“One less CEO,” the sign, at the corner of southbound Aurora and Dexter Way, said, “many more to go.”

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[-] Eggyhead@fedia.io 73 points 1 week ago

Now let’s see how quickly gun regulation gets pushed through…

Punishment will be a fine, and if you don't pay the fine, you go to prison.

It will be known as the "Only Rich Kids Get To Be Mass Shooters Act of 2025"

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That would backfire so horribly when explosives become the weapon of choice. It'll be Oklahoma City for every shitty company.

Edit: Had the wrong damn city

[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 week ago

You weren't around for the preceding "going postal" era..,

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fun fact: my old boss was on the team who wrote the code for the time clock that was so granular and cruel that it drove the first dood to go haywire and shooty.

Learning it was a punch clock and micro-management behind it, you're not surprised a bit.

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

More Oklahoma City if you're talking explosives.

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

Shit you're right, I got my american tragedies mixed up!

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

There are so many to choose from.

[-] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 6 points 1 week ago

Funny enough, it took them until 2011 to finally have any real regulation on ammonium nitrate!

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air...

[-] MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Brought plainly to light
Rancid fetish laid bare

Tap for spoilerI've always found it a bit odd that it's the only national anthem venerating explosives. Reap what you sow I guess.

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 week ago

lol if only. We're just going to see more fences around neighborhoods, more police in the "nice" parts of town, more general segregation between the upper and middle class, and if the CEOs are actually scared they'll just spend all their time in other countries that are more safe.

[-] Chivera@lemmy.world 45 points 1 week ago
[-] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago
[-] otter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I thought the literal removal of all fear was the goal?

[-] Blackout@fedia.io 41 points 1 week ago
[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 40 points 1 week ago

Early morning commuters on Seattle’s Aurora Avenue were greeted with an unsettling sign as they headed into the city.

Unsettling to CEOs, maybe.

[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Do CEOs really qualify as commuters if they barely do any actual work? It might be more accurate to call them very consistent daily tourists.

Commuters are people who travel into the city to get work done during the day and then commute home.

[-] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

... like the passcode on an cellphone ...

You would think basic grammar would be used by "journalists"

[-] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

It was just one. An journalist lol

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 2 points 1 week ago

I believe they prefer the term “artificial human”

[-] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 week ago

This is so wholesome. Warms the heart.

[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago
[-] thebigslime@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[-] 1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

We don't get many of these signs around where i live to buy a flipper.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

That was fun and I missed it! Darn.

But I heard that close by we had this happen:

https://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2024/12/12/detectives-investigate-deadly-shooting-in-lake-city/

The Seattle area is full of the craziest normal looking people ever.

[-] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 week ago

Seattle is a mix of rich folks, tech folks, counterculture folks, and holier-than-thou folks. Sometimes, that's just one dude.

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

You're referring to my dentist! Like how can you be a snob and also have clients that let you drill their teeth out? It takes whatever I used to be. But now I'm going to get me a new dentist lol.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

It also has a big contingent of seasonally depressed service-sector folks.

I remember when it was a friendly city, but that was almost 50 years ago. All that working-class solidarity and memory of the IWW is gone now.

[-] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 1 week ago

I recently saw some graffiti that said "SHOOT 3, WIN A PRIZE!"

There seems to be a stong current of popular sentiment in favor of further Mangione tactics.

[-] ramsorge@discuss.online 4 points 1 week ago

Oh and it rhymes. Now we have a chant!!!

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