• @[email protected]
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    491 year ago

    Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      I get where you are coming from, but there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May.

      Also, billionaires should not exist.

        • @[email protected]
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          71 year ago

          As I said, “there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May”. There have also been untold horrors unleashed on Ukraine since then. War is hell. Russia sucks.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 year ago

            My bad, I misread your post and thought you were talking about the 19 innocent people killed by Russian missiles in April of this year. Sorry, my bad.

            • @[email protected]
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              111 year ago

              It’s all good. When I was a kid in the '70s, I was living on Okinawa. The bomb people would come to my elementary every year and give a speech about what not to do if we would stumble upon unexploded ordinance. 40 years after WWII. I came to age reading about the awful, and ongoing, horrors of landmines in places like Cambodia. Reading/watching news about what’s going on now in Ukraine is heartbreaking, and I can’t help thinking about the long term impacts that a traumatized population will suffer. And the following years of shit exploding when a field is being plowed or whatever. It is almost too awful to even contemplate. In light of that, I agree with you, a handful of rich assholes going missing in the Atlantic is nothing.

    • @nivenkos
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      181 year ago

      Because a bombing in a war isn’t unexpected no matter how tragic it is.

      Whereas it’s rare that a group of multi-millionaires tries to visit the Titanic in a MacGyver-esque hobby submarine.

      • @MercuryUprising
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        51 year ago

        It also tells a wider story about these “disruption-oriented” start ups where the ceos and investors are convinced that the secret to better marine/aerospace technology is less regulation.

        • @nivenkos
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          11 year ago

          It had completed trips before to be fair, it’s probably just some error in the sealing.

          It’s sad though, while I’m no fan of multi-millionaires, at least some of them here were investing in technology and space flight.

          • @MercuryUprising
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            31 year ago

            All I know is I would never go into a canister that is bolted shut with no way of getting out from inside. I don’t give a shit how many “missions” it completed before.

    • Track_Shovel
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      141 year ago

      I’m only following to make sure he’s really dead. The world could use less billionaires

      • @[email protected]
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        81 year ago

        The world isn’t going to get his money. Things aren’t suddenly become fair in the world because a billionaire died.

      • @MiddleWeigh
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        71 year ago

        Do you want my billionaire? I thought it would be a novelty, to show off to my friends, like a houseplant, but it turns out, its kind of just a piece of shit.

      • Oobleckonyoface
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        61 year ago

        While true, his billions aren’t going to be distributed to the poor, a dead billionaires money goes to a dead billionaires family who probably deserves the money even less but feel owed the money even more than he did.

      • @[email protected]
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        41 year ago

        Hey, don’t say that! It’s totally wrong! It should be, “The world could use fewer billionaires”.

    • Deacon
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      61 year ago

      I understand the sentiment but I think the attention is because of the novelty of it being a submarine and it being connected to the Titanic.

    • Calcharger
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      41 year ago

      It’s because it’s related to the Titanic, and for whatever reason that shipwreck has a grip on western psyches. Dunno why but it just is what it is