MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies

Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by ruggeri on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:52PM (#46296396)

You’ve been downvoted by others because this is lazy stereotyping.

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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by OutOfHere on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:13PM (#46296571)

By your logic, anything that satisfies Occam's razor is lazy stereotyping. And that doesn't make the idea unlikely anyway.

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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by dmoy on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @07:21PM (#46296638)

Finals not being over might make the idea unlikely

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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by OutOfHere on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @08:24PM (#46297116)

They started yesterday. A student who is going to outright fail it will likely know immediately before the results are in.

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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by UncleMeat on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:48AM (#46301374)

Given how few disgruntled students murder their professors, no it would not be the Occam's Razor conclusion that the murderer was a disgruntled student.

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Re:MIT professor shot at his Massachusetts home dies by OutOfHere on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @06:33PM (#46307086)

Such an incident at a random small college or small university would not make the national news. MIT is one of the few nationally known universities, so it did.

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