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bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It certainly warrants investigation, but the way the second guy died is actually not particularly suspicious. He got pneumonia, then he got MRSA in a hospital. 50,000-100,000 people every year get MRSA in a hospital setting, almost always people of his demographic with pneumonia, and it is incredibly lethal. We have upwards of 10,000 deaths a year due to it. Again, almost all casualties are his demographic.

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octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
So in other words, very plausible deniability.

allthatsinteresting.com/heart-attack-gun

We had that tech in 1968. I’m pretty sure it would be a matter of a phone call and some change from the couch cushions for Boeing to create that outcome.

Does this mean they did it? No.

Does it warrant the reaction folks are having about it? Absolutely yes.

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- MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  which could cause death in minutes without leaving a trace.
  
  Aside from the puncture wound.
  
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  - hark@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    From the article:
    
    All that would be left behind was a tiny red dot where the dart entered the body, undetectable to those who didn’t know to look for it.
    
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  - AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Which can be missed by an examiner
    
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    bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Well that’s it. Case closed. The existence of a heart attack gun in 1968 proves Boeing killed 2 whistleblowers in 2024. Good job gang.
    
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  - maynarkh@feddit.nl ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    They may have ironed that out, this article is talking about tech that is more than half a century old. We got from first aeroplane to man on the moon in less than that.
    
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- bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  So “it can be done” is now evidence of a grand conspiracy?
  
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  - octopus_ink@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Does this mean they did it? No.
    
    Does it warrant the reaction folks are having about it? Absolutely yes. (Edit - In light of their current troubles and the fate of the prior whistleblower.)
    
    I stand by that statement, and don’t feel like trying again to connect the dots on the relevancy of my example. Whatever you are arguing about is - not the same.
    
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    bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I have said multiple times this warrants an investigation. The issue is people here have already decided what the facts are.
    
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Tryptaminev@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
And it is suspected that thousand of elderly people are murdered every year, but it is ruled as a natural death, because the demographic is prone to natural deaths and nobody bothers to check further.

At the very least demanding a throughout investigation in both cases is absolutely reasonable.

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- bolexforsoup@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The first thing I said was “it certainly warrants investigation.”
  
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