FYI: you can just look it up.

https://lemmy.world/modlog

It was a picture of the CEO of Funko captioned with a death threat.

Yeah, it always seems that every time someone questions the wisdom or validity of this analogy seems not to understand it.

It’s either the misunderstanding that the constraints of the hypothetical are finite (a million vs. infinity).

Or the insistence that any sufficiently infinitesimal chance is “practically zero”, when literally any likelihood multiplied by infinity is going to guarantee an occurrence.

You can actually expand the infinite monkey theory to say that an infinite number of monkeys using typewriters for an infinite amount of time would write every single book ever written in any language the keyboard is capable of typing, as well as every possible book that could ever even theoretically exist, an infinite number of times, and still be correct.

Any infinite set of random (or even semi-random) characters will contain every possible set of characters that could ever exist, of any length. The works of Shakespeare are also encoded into Pi, we just haven’t calculated enough digits to discover one yet (and very likely never will).

Poor person commits crime: “Life in prison”

Rich person commits same crime: “One day in prison”

Excellent plan. Even worse than the current system. You’re a genius.

I’ve got news for you. Elon Musk agrees with you 200% and wants to fire the entire government so that he can replace it with his companies and become a trillionaire.

I don’t care if the guy is a billionaire or not

Good news. He wasn’t a billionaire. In fact, he wasn’t even close.

Combined, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are worth 150,000x more than this guy.

He wasn’t a billionaire.

Oh no my fediverse instance won’t let me glorify murder and incite more violence. Waaah!

tbh, .world hasn’t done enough to address the problem.

He wasn’t a billionaire. I know it’s easy to just pretend that every CEO is Elon Musk, but in billions he was worth $0.04B. Elon Musk is on track to be worth 100,000x that.

If you think he was an Oligarch, you’re already doomed, because you don’t know who your real enemies are.

Remember how the right kept panicking their base for easy political points until extremist thought divorced from reality took over their platform and became the new norm?

Well, it’s happening to the left now. With a second Trump term on the horizon, income inequality at an all time high, and the rich and powerful preparing for the most egregious political and economic power grab of all time, people are ready to accept anything that even remotely sounds like justice.

One murdered CEO changes nothing. Nothing will change. No other CEOs will be touched. But the Overton Window does now appear to include murdering people in cold blood over politics and economics on both sides of the aisle now, so honestly, get prepared for a nasty civil war in the next few years.

The public reaction to this murder is disturbing and a very bad omen of what’s to come, no matter how easy it is to hate this guy.

Jesus Christ, performing a legal ceremony isn’t “art”, it’s the legal duty of the public servants that swore to do the job. It sounds to me like you’re saying that public servants should be allowed to refuse to perform a courthouse marriage ceremony if they disagree with interracial marriages. If that is indeed what you are saying, then you are endorsing racial discrimination against citizens by the government. I can only assume you are of a demographic that would be unlikely to be discriminated against since you seem to be blasé about discrimination against others.

Tl;Dr: first you outed yourself as a homophobe, and now a racist too.

I am on your side on this one. Non-violence is a principle that this community needs to enforce.

If anything, I am shocked that there are so many brazenly violent, celebratory, and dehumanizing comments still in this thread, and it makes me worry that even you aren’t drawing the line very well here.

People repeatedly spammed the same violent things to several different threads about this here, and none of them seem to have caught a ban.

This is a Nazi Bar problem. You folks need to purge these extremist trolls. Advocating for murder is an absolute non-starter. Lemmy isn’t usually this bloodthirsty, and if you want to keep it from being this way every day you need to clean house and start handing out significant bans and send a message today.

I’d start those people replying to you here telling you off for enforcing the most basic content rules. Turn this thread into a graveyard before you’ve sent the message that this is how we behave here.

Okay psycho, now say it again while looking at his family.

The writing is on the wall for Lemmy. It was founded by Tankies, it’s no surprise that violent extremists gravitate here.

This kind of shit gets us nowhere. I hope the “venting” is worth the reputational damage this does to the cause when it’s inevitably used to paint us as unhinged lunatics (which is an accurate portrayal of the wider community here, tbh).

Not a billionaire, unless $0.036 Billion counts.

I never said the system was justified. You can’t both-sides this.

This man isn’t the system, and he was murdered. That’s why it was murder. Like our healthcare system, it was unjust. I’m not celebrating injustice, no matter who it’s visited upon.

Folks, I understand that it’s hard to feel sympathy for a health insurance CEO. Completely fucking understandable to have difficulty feeling grief here.

But the bloodlust in the comments here isn’t excusable. This was a human being who was violently killed. It wasn’t self defense - hell, we don’t even know who did it or why.

He has teenage sons who are today experiencing the absolute worst nightmare of their lives. He has a family that will be shattered by this. This isn’t some game or a movie where the bad guys just lost. This is real life.

His death isn’t a win for your healthcare goals. Your celebration of his death is cowardly and shameful, and hurts any cause of compassion you claim to support. I hope the moderators of this community see the same problem I do here, because y’all are being violent.

I love the “arbitrarily redefine what a civilian is” method of handwaving away a murder. It really shows that deep down, you would have an excuse to kill anyone.

Exit: Downvote me all you want. If openly celebrating murder is how the left operates now, the left is even more doomed than I realized.

Let’s not be playing by Putin’s playbook…

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

These attempts to humiliate often just lend more power to the victims anyway.

Minecraft rules

Well, Bluesky claims to be a federated service, so I guess people should consider whether or not the service they are backing is capable of fulfilling its promises.