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[-] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Is it common for people to get death threats?

Or at least get enough that you can start ranking them by category?

Maybe I'm just lucky.

[-] x00z@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

I'll kill you for this comment.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Rhynoplaz: The most ridiculous - this guy/girl threatened to kill me one time on Lemmy because I asked if people get death threats often.

[-] MoreZombies@piefed.au 4 points 8 months ago

I had closed the gate to my checkout, turned out the light, wiped everything down, took my till out and had walked away a bit when I saw a customer start loading his groceries on the now-abandoned belt.

i walked back to try to help by simply saying, "Sorry man, that checkout is closed, you'll have to go a few up to get through."

I went upstairs, counted my till and posted my results, got my stuff and went to leave.

Suddenly my bosses are on me checking if I'm okay, and I'm being escorted off-site by security for my safety.

Apparently the man was not appreciative, went to the managers and told them he was going to wait for me outside so he could run me over..

[-] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I made a PR/commit to to a foss android kernel for 'tap to wake' ported from fork to another model. I fully attributed where and who and complied with the GPL. The guy lost his shit and threatened my very existence, over around 20 lines of code.

[-] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I was openly an atheist in highschool (early 2000s). Death threats weren't sent, they were spoken to my face

[-] hexappeal16@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I came to say this too. Such pious folks, willing to kill for their gods

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Gods who specifically said 'blessed are the peace-makers', no less.

[-] Denjin@feddit.uk 2 points 8 months ago

Well, obviously it's not meant to be taken literally. It refers to any manufacturer of dairy products.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I was working for an ISP and sent one of our customers a warning about harassing people via email. He switched to me instead. It escalated up the chain to my manager's manager, who called the customer's dad because he was 14. Dad got him under control, because the alternative was to lose his phone service for 12 months.

A year later, the kid contacted me again to say I should give him a job, because I'm an incompetent fuck and users shouldn't have to put up with me. Would you be surprised to learn we didn't hire him?

Every few years I stalk his blog to see what he's been up to. There's usually a couple more arrests to add to the tally, but like always they weren't his fault, because someone provoked him!

[-] sirboozebum@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

I must ask. Please post his blog link.

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Wouldn't that be doxxing?

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

Facebook: Got comments from by wife's brother and his friends about God's blessing and such being responsible for her pregnancy.

"It's 2013. We have a pretty solid handle on how a woman gets pregnant, and there's no god in the explanation."

Of my fuck they exploded. "I'll fucking kill you!" "Best not come back to this town!" So it goes.

[-] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Family gatherings must be something.

[-] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Then why does she scream 'oh my god!!! Jesus! Yes yes!!! Oh my fucking god!!!' when we're working on making her pregnant?

[-] shalafi@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

My wife prays to Crom when I'm hitting it.

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 2 points 8 months ago

I was hired for a job some guy had been fired from several years earlier. There had been at least one other person in the position after him and before me. But for some reason he found out about me, decided I was a problem, and I had to get escorted to and from my car in the employee parking and the building each day for a couple of weeks until he lost interest.

And more pedestrian yet depressing, the stereotypical: I politely declined unwanted advances from a strange man in a bar, strange man promptly lost all emotional control and proved I made the right decision.

[-] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago

I've been on the internet since the 90's, and a lot of that has included online gaming, so I just assume that I've received a few. But none that I remember.

[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Posting vaguely feminist quotes on social media way back in the 2010s ¯\(ツ)

Terminally online gamergate era proto-chuds got big mad over cheesy screencaps ig lmao

I once had a conversation about economics with a different person. Just something clicked in some other guy and sent them down a spiral.

[-] PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 8 months ago

Username checks out

[-] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

I think the one time I kept taunting that one guy about fucking his Mom in the butt. He threatened to kill me when I live-streamed it. Fucking ridiculous.

[-] Evkob@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago

Not condoning the death threats, but live-streaming the butt-fucking of his mom is a bit much.

[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

I've never had any death threats sent to me lol. From the title of your post, it sounds like you get them regularly??

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

My biological brother: for basicly all the time when i argue against him and prove him wrong. Last time: for showing him with litteral math that salt water does not take longer to boil!

[-] isyasad@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

What was the math? Doesn't salt increase the boiling point?

[-] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

It does, yes. But only 1°C Unless you boil in a cartoonishly huge cattle the time it takes for it to boil isnt noticeable affected

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Because I referred to Christianity as a cult.

[-] thymos@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 8 months ago

Not sent but spoken on the phone.

I worked for the tax services on the phone and received a call from a woman who needed to pay back some money, more than she could afford. Before she spoke to me she had been given advice by someone from the tax office she had met in person and they had told her she wouldn't need to pay back anything. This was wrong, but we were not allowed to say that someone from the tax office made a mistake, even if it was obviously so.

She blamed me, personally, for making her pay back the money and then threatened to kill me. So I guess a death threat for fixing someone else's fuck up is the stupidest reason yet.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -1 points 8 months ago
[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 points 8 months ago

I strongly doubt that was the reason. What was the context?

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 8 months ago

I strongly doubt that was the reason

Lol, with what's happening in the world?

Something something snarky reddit atheist post about Christianity being false. I countered it, then they said that someone should start a campaign of hunting down Christians

[-] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

Well that sucks, and I’m sorry. It sounds like you encountered an unhinged psychopath, like others here who had weirdos latch onto them for stupid reasons that had nothing to do with you and everything to do with them.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk -1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah. Most people are fine on here. Some people may have been abused by a facade of Christianity, so I get it

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