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  • In the second case, there’s fuckery by the coroner.

    I don’t think gross incompetence would be entirely unexpected! But it would put really heavy lean into the ‘fuckery’ bucket, definitely.

    People have this kind of knee-jerk “the system is going to lie about everything” reaction which sometimes makes them kind of throw up their hands on the concept of every getting to the bottom of anything

    I understand, and I wasn’t saying that so much as “Ugh, I really hope this doesn’t get handled poorly”. What I was saying - for clarity - is there is a long history of racism there and enough is off about this to make me put on my “worried” hat. That I would feel more assured about how this would be handled if there were more trustworthy folks involved, but thats unfortunately not an option given the current administration, instead needing to wait not just for the coroner to finish, but for the family to receive his body and have the unpleasant experience of potentially needing to get their own specialist to take a look.

    Even just the prospect of a family needing to verify the report is an upsetting reality.



  • I understood entirely.

    What I said was there is entirely the possibility of “Oops! His body went to the furnace instead”, or “oh no! The body was mishandled and fell”, or a whole variety of other things.

    Off the top of my head, I can recall cases where:

    • The body is sent to the wrong place
    • The wrong body is sent to the right place
    • Bodies not kept at temperature and then sent for cremation
    • Bodies suffered damage due to falling down stairs
    • Mishandling of bodies and reporting with the specific intent to cover up crimes (CA Sheriffs office, I remember this one distinctly, because they were protecting cops)

    I’m saying its not a guarantee until the body of this kid ends up with the family, and given the history in this particular area… I have little to no trust of those involved.


  • It would have to be a pretty shockingly brazen coverup for that part of the story to be true and covered up.

    I agree, and at the same time… I can still see it as a possibility given everything else going on. There are plenty of ways “unfortunate mishandling” can happen.

    I have even lower trust these days. There is so much willingness to blatantly lie all the way up to the federal level that I doubt I would trust any report produced. Not to say I’d assume it was something else, just that I have virtually zero trust in the police there or the coroner.




  • The trouble is, once the parent company starts merging some departments, shareholders often push to merge more departments.

    Especially since they are talking about all the money they will save cutting jobs.

    Based on the time frames for this, I’m going to guess by the end of 2026 the engineering team will shrink, followed by a 2027 announcement of merging departments for better management, and RedHat basically be just IBM entirely by 2028.

    If I still had any servers on RH for work, I’d be planning my moves right about now (personally I started the shift after the 2023 announcement on source code availability, finalized the last three servers in June actually).

    Really quite a shame to see how things have changed.

    Anyway, I’d suspect there are at least a couple years left before its a mess.



  • Legal, hr, finance, and accounting is now IBM, and IBM has noted job cuts as part of the cost savings in its profit forecasting.

    Engineering, product, sales, and marketing are not making any changes - yet.

    I would note that IBM is also now pushing its “enhanced AI” support over speaking with actual people, unless you have an upgraded support tier. Basic support tier can also no longer escalate cases.

    I would agree in not needing to rush anywhere, but I would have to say this looks like the start of enshittification for sure.