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re: Question about the Unabomber
Posted on 7/27/20 at 12:41 pm to JudgeHolden
Posted on 7/27/20 at 12:41 pm to JudgeHolden
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Posted on 7/27/20 at 12:54 pm to Salmon
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he probably wouldn't have, but just like BTK, these type of guys always think they are smarter than everyone else and just can't help themselves when it comes to explaining their actions
In this case he was smarter than everyone else.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:08 pm to EA6B
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In this case he was smarter than everyone else.
You have to wonder this. How would is life have been different if he had been able to romantically connect with a woman? He tried several times. I think if he had turned that enormous intellect toward learning how to connect, he would not have ended up in the Supermax.
Fast forward to today. Suppose he was 27 years old now. He'd have all these dating apps that lower the barriers to intimate relationships. It is far easier for a socially awkward person to find someone today, no matter how out there, than it was in 1967. So if I'm right, there should be far fewer Unabomber personalities in the future than there were in the past.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:14 pm to JudgeHolden
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dating apps
Not sure a guy who denounces technology is going to use dating apps.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:15 pm to Fenster
maybe he wouldn't have denounced technology if it helped him get laid
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:16 pm to JudgeHolden
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Fast forward to today. Suppose he was 27 years old now. He'd have all these dating apps that lower the barriers to intimate relationships. It is far easier for a socially awkward person to find someone today, no matter how out there, than it was in 1967. So if I'm right, there should be far fewer Unabomber personalities in the future than there were in the past.
except we have this whole incel culture going on right now
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:17 pm to Gorilla Ball
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I thought he used a generator
Shirley a generator would burn up more than 30 bucks a month in gas alone.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:21 pm to Salmon
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except we have this whole incel culture going on right now
Which baffles me.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:23 pm to idlewatcher
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Shirley a generator would burn up more than 30 bucks a month in gas alone.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 1:32 pm to JudgeHolden
Well, shite. I found a page dedicated to Unabomber conspiracy theories. There goes my evening.
Unabomber Conspiracy Rabbit Hole
Unabomber Conspiracy Rabbit Hole
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:26 pm to Salmon
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well....except for Ted
Leave me out of this
Posted on 7/27/20 at 10:42 pm to Upperdecker
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His manifesto is pretty spot on
You have been Tedpilled.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:39 pm to jchamil
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Slouching Towards Gomorrah
Outstanding book written by a brilliant man. I have a copy in my library. In fact I’m looking at it now. It’s a very compelling tome.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:46 pm to jchamil
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Slouching Towards
I did not think old Ted was much of a sixties radical. Part of the reason he failed at Berkeley is he was too square.
I do think he’d like The Second Coming if he read poetry, and I’m pretty sure I know what he’d think the “rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born” was.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:48 pm to JudgeHolden
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So if I'm right, there should be far fewer Unabomber personalities in the future than there were in the past.
Very interesting point. But there was a “kissless virgin“ that shot up some town in California a few years ago. He did it because he was mad he couldn’t get laid. And this was in the age of dating apps.
This post was edited on 7/28/20 at 12:00 am
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:53 pm to JudgeHolden
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Which baffles me.
Me too. The incel shite is just mind blowingly stupid.
Posted on 7/27/20 at 11:59 pm to JudgeHolden
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Part of the reason he failed at Berkeley is he was too square.
I’m not sure he failed as much as he just gave up the academic lifestyle. His colleagues were stunned he quit. He wasn’t comfortable teaching and really only taught from the text. He was a brilliant researcher and given that his coworkers speculated that had he stayed he would’ve had a senior position in the department around the late 80s or so. Or maybe in his mind he felt not being able to teach as well as other professors constituted a failure. He’s a very interesting case study.
This post was edited on 7/28/20 at 12:01 am
Posted on 7/28/20 at 1:15 am to idlewatcher
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Shirley a generator would burn up more than 30 bucks a month in gas alone.
I’m sure it was meant that he used a generator to power a soldering iron for the few minutes it took to connect a few wires, not light up the cabin 24/7.
Posted on 7/28/20 at 1:29 am to JudgeHolden
I'm not surprised that there are a ton of unabomber fans in this thread.
This post was edited on 7/28/20 at 9:36 pm
Posted on 7/28/20 at 1:36 am to JudgeHolden
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Well, shite. I found a page dedicated to Unabomber conspiracy theories. There goes my evening.
Dammit. Me too, now.
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