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They didn't lose a building. Much of the outage was due to some cable damage and loss of power. Once power was at least partially restored, service started to return. 72 hours later most service is back but repairs might take a while.
 
K1052 said:
Conspiracy theory fueled domestic terrorism should be called that. Suicide bomber attacks crucial telecommunications facility is the story here.
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Is 5G political? This seems more like a Luddite attack, going after new tech. It might just be semantics though. Between the plot of kidnap the Michigan governor and this, the feds are going to be very interested in what the alt-right social media sites are cooking up.
 
Zorba said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say nearly all domestic terrorists at this point in time can be traced back to a conspiracy group on social media. But sounds like this guy is a 5G nutcase.
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I think you fail and underestimate how much a disgruntled telco employee can cause havoc. Even during union contract negotiations we had employees tearing out circuits for E911 service a few years back. For a domestic terrorist to target a telco building, and specifically this one, seems about the worse target one could choose. It isn't a telco NOC, it wasn't a state of federal building. And terrorist of any kind instill terror by trying to kill people, not warning them to run for it.
 
JTsyo said:
Is 5G political? This seems more like a Luddite attack, going after new tech. It might just be semantics though. Between the plot of kidnap the Michigan governor and this, the feds are going to be very interested in what the alt-right social media sites are cooking up.
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NBC news tonight said he was used to be an IT tech which is bizarre, he should have known 5G was nothing more than a faster bandwidth standard and not fall for the conspiracy bullshit.
 
Zorba said:
I'm going to go out on a limb and say nearly all domestic terrorists at this point in time can be traced back to a conspiracy group on social media. But sounds like this guy is a 5G nutcase.
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That's pure speculation. Warner's motivations are simply unknown at this point & may never be known.
 
JTsyo said:
Is 5G political? This seems more like a Luddite attack, going after new tech. It might just be semantics though. Between the plot of kidnap the Michigan governor and this, the feds are going to be very interested in what the alt-right social media sites are cooking up.
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It can be both. There is a lot of overlap between rightwing MAGA-tard/covid denial/5G = brain-scanning Gates-Soros technology sociopaths. ...this guy is also maybe some version of an Incel, signing over his properties, over 1 year actually, to that one woman in CA that hasn't lived there in, what, 5, 10 years? She had no idea about it, probably doesn't ever think about him (unless there was a restraining order), but he sure did want to get her attention.

Or, maybe, it could be something as simple as this dude being an extreme loner, and she was the only person, I'm guessing a neighbor at some point, that was ever nice to him.
 
There's a very noticable overlap between 5G paranoia and Qanonsense. And with anti-vaxx, and with David Icke's particular strand of lunacy.

What gets me is how people are now prepared to go straight to terrorism over the most idiosyncratic forms of crackpottery.

Once it was all about grand ideologies with centuries of history - anarchism or nationalism or religious fundamentalism - now people will plant bombs over crazy theories someone invented from whole cloth a week ago.
 
His dad worked for ATT. He may have blamed them for some HR wrongdoing.

It is possible he wasn't really an IT guru as the news media claimed. They said he basically sold computers and set them up to local businesses as their outsourced 'IT' guy. He could very well fall for the conspiracy theory stuff.
 
zinfamous said:
this guy is also maybe some version of an Incel, signing over his properties, over 1 year actually, to that one woman in CA that hasn't lived there in, what, 5, 10 years? She had no idea about it, probably doesn't ever think about him (unless there was a restraining order), but he sure did want to get her attention.

Or, maybe, it could be something as simple as this dude being an extreme loner, and she was the only person, I'm guessing a neighbor at some point, that was ever nice to him.
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I read somewhere yesterday that he dated the woman's mother at some point. Could be she's his daughter or he thought of her that way. Pure speculation from me on that.
 
JTsyo said:
Is 5G political? This seems more like a Luddite attack, going after new tech. It might just be semantics though. Between the plot of kidnap the Michigan governor and this, the feds are going to be very interested in what the alt-right social media sites are cooking up.
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There was a protest about it in Berkeley a few months back. The signs were all about bee's and something about invading homes. I didn't really pay attention.
 
I actually don't know why a lot of people are such big 5G defenders, it seems like it kind of sucks to me. And then you have this whacko conspiracy about it so that if you try and point out what sucks everyone just writes you off as a loon.

There's the "meta conspiracy" theory, which is basically that the CIA and the like seed ridiculous conspiracy theories to damage the credibility of the real ones. I sometimes think this is one of those, or maybe designed to silence any complainers but they underestimated how stupid most people are now its really taken off. Everyone blames Russia, but do they gain anything in particular from making people annoyed with the telcos and cellphones?

Anyway, there's plenty of reasons to hate AT&T besides their 5G, which last I heard was fake 5G anyway.
 
PingSpike said:
I actually don't know why a lot of people are such big 5G defenders, it seems like it kind of sucks to me. And then you have this whacko conspiracy about it so that if you try and point out what sucks everyone just writes you off as a loon.

There's the "meta conspiracy" theory, which is basically that the CIA and the like seed ridiculous conspiracy theories to damage the credibility of the real ones. I sometimes think this is one of those, or maybe designed to silence any complainers but they underestimated how stupid most people are now its really taken off. Everyone blames Russia, but do they gain anything in particular from making people annoyed with the telcos and cellphones?

Anyway, there's plenty of reasons to hate AT&T besides their 5G, which last I heard was fake 5G anyway.
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That 5G must be sumpin huh?
 
Now that this is the bombing suspect how many more times will the White House refer to this as terrorism? My guess, zero. Imagine the outrage especially on the right if the suspect was one of those brown Mooslims?
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PingSpike said:
I actually don't know why a lot of people are such big 5G defenders, it seems like it kind of sucks to me. And then you have this whacko conspiracy about it so that if you try and point out what sucks everyone just writes you off as a loon.

There's the "meta conspiracy" theory, which is basically that the CIA and the like seed ridiculous conspiracy theories to damage the credibility of the real ones. I sometimes think this is one of those, or maybe designed to silence any complainers but they underestimated how stupid most people are now its really taken off. Everyone blames Russia, but do they gain anything in particular from making people annoyed with the telcos and cellphones?

Anyway, there's plenty of reasons to hate AT&T besides their 5G, which last I heard was fake 5G anyway.
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5G is dandy... on the right carrier, in the right circumstances. The problem was that, until this year, the truly noteworthy 5G was limited to millimeter wave service; T-Mobile had widely available 5G on the 600MHz band, but it's not much faster than LTE. Due to mmWave's limitations, you had to effectively hug a cell site to get meaningfully faster data.

The US is ending 2020 with considerably better coverage. The major carriers now have widely available 5G as a rule, even if there are still gaps, and T-Mobile is boosting its speeds with mid-band (2.5GHz) 5G.

AT&T has real 5G, but the problem was that it tried to trick people into thinking it had 5G early with its "5G Evolution" (5GE) branding for what was actually very fast LTE. Most techies know it isn't 5G, but there are legions of people convinced they have 5G phones simply because AT&T had a status icon changed.
 
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
Has the Orange Guy mentioned it at all? Saw a news item yesterday saying thaere had not been any kind of comment or acknowledgment it even happened,
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Mind you, in this case it may be less about Trump's "white guys aren't terrorists" MO and more that he's distracted by his futile attempts to overturn the election. A bombing with no fatalities probably doesn't even register for him.
 
This sounds really creepy doesn't it? It almost sounds like something the Joker from batman would do.
"If you ever feel lonely, and you need somebody, just go... Downtown, Downtown, Downtown...."*Music stops*
*KA- BOOOM!!!!!*
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The RV can be seen behind the black car that is parked on the left side of the street. It almost looks like a box truck in this gif of the portion of the video.
 
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HERE IS COP body cam VID uploaded by Nashville police!!!!!!!!!!!!
Listen carefully between 3:30 and 4:00
 
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Commodus said:
Mind you, in this case it may be less about Trump's "white guys aren't terrorists" MO and more that he's distracted by his futile attempts to overturn the election. A bombing with no fatalities probably doesn't even register for him.
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Why would he care about what happens to Americans? They've failed him by not re-electing him.
 
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