“It’s not about being a disruptor. It’s about the laws of physics.”Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Gawd that sentence could apply to so many topics over the last 5 years
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“It’s not about being a disruptor. It’s about the laws of physics.”Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
Gawd that sentence could apply to so many topics over the last 5 years
He did his own research.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
Holy fuck, if you didn't think Rush was a bonified narcissistic glory seeking asshole, this pretty much adds that final nail to his self made coffin.Quote:
A few weeks later, McDevitt contacted OceanGate, noting that he was looking into Lochridge’s firing as a whistle-blower-protection matter. OceanGate’s lawyer Thomas Gilman soon issued Lochridge a court summons: he had ten days to withdraw his osha claim and pay OceanGate almost ten thousand dollars in legal expenses. Otherwise, Gilman wrote, OceanGate would sue him, take measures to destroy his professional reputation, and accuse him of immigration fraud. Gilman also reported to osha that Lochridge had orchestrated his own firing because he “wanted to leave his job and maintain his ability to collect unemployment benefits.” (McDevitt, of osha, notified the Coast Guard of Lochridge’s complaint. There is no evidence that the Coast Guard ever followed up.)
Lochridge received the summons while he was at his father’s funeral. He and his wife hired a lawyer, but it quickly became clear that “he didn’t have the money to fight this guy,” Lahey told me. (Lochridge declined to be interviewed.) Lahey covered the rest of the expenses, but, after more than half a year of legal wrangling, and threats of deportation, Lochridge withdrew his whistle-blower claim with osha so that he could go on with his life. Lahey was crestfallen. “He didn’t consult me about that decision,” Lahey recalled. “It’s not that he had to—it was his fight, not mine. But I was underwriting the cost of it, because I believed in the idea that this inspection report, which he wouldn’t share with anybody, needed to see the light of day.”
https://media.tenor.com/EDYebu-b3KwA...-i-cant-do.gif
No fat chicks on aquatic mopedsQuote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Thanks for linking that - perfect article to sum up the hubris and willful ignorance.Quote:
Originally Posted by I Skied Bandini Mountain
15 minutes about the efforts to find/rescue Titan using various submersibles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xngy...ithShipping%3F
Oh man, there’s outrage, outrage I tells ya about that sign!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by highangle
It’s almost like those offended missed the last 3 weeks of memes and gallows humor on top of forgetting that Subway corporate probably doesn’t approve each and every marquis message. Oh well, at least they’ll move on in a week when something else fills their social media feed.
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I thought it was understood that subway was tasteless?Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
LOL.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
There’s also a Chris Hansen joke in here somewhere but that would actually be insensitive.
If the transcript between the sub and support ship is real the people on board had 20 minutes to think about what was happening.
Ugh, pass.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
Yikes.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
x2Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Some say the transcript is fake, but if it's true -Quote:
Originally Posted by Mazderati
They were descending about 50% too fast, and they didn't notice, but maybe the control ship did and didn't communicate that properly. And they heard various noises. And had trouble dropping ballast, Then dropped the landing frame too, after which they were rising slowly. Lots of "red lights" including the carbon fiber hull and the power system. Then nothing more was heard that morning.
Maybe someone ate too many subs and lied about their weight. (not really, dropping the landing frame would offset a few hundred pounds)
This guy discusses, though I think he overdramatizes, but so do most media types
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Dj8IJbP41c
Yeah, "move fast and break things'" works better for social media than for submersibles.Quote:
Originally Posted by bennymac
Does it though? How much bad policy is due to social media? I choose 4 dead billionaires over social media electing autocrats and populist idiots.Quote:
Originally Posted by old goat
In case anyone wondered what asshole billionaire’s asshole son has been up to since the accident:
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https://youtu.be/IbHREBvkOx0
Sticking with the nautical theme and rich-folk-behaving-badlyTriangle of Sadness is now streaming on Kanopy.Quote:
Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
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Originally Posted by JimmyCarter
Thanks to the timely death of his billionaire stepfather, I fear, much like Big Ern McCracken after winning the Reno Open, this douche is finally above the law.
someone should tell that kid about how many white women are still on the titanic. maybe he'd want to go investigate
Not solid enough
Holy shit, I had never heard that story.Quote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
And one case of beer later, Bill Paxton leaned into the effects of the PCP chowder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dantheman
What a guy.
Game over, man! Game over!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
Sometimes you have to.Quote:
Originally Posted by BmillsSkier
[emoji51] can't look away
Hard pass.
Looks like chum. Any sharks down there?
More evidence for the exploding body theory.Quote:
Originally Posted by mud
No bodies. Hm.
Seems like an easy way to start over with a new identity if one had the means to do so.
A year after OceanGate’s sub imploded, thousands of leaked documents and interviews with ex-employees reveal how the company’s CEO cut corners, ignored warnings, and lied in his fatal quest to reach the Titanic.
https://www.wired.com/story/titan-su...ceangate-files
Account suspended. LMAOQuote:
Originally Posted by mud
That's fucked up. If he went down there on his own, that's one thing, but selling tickets to other people who don't know about the cut corners, that's really low. Sounds like the whole process was unbelievably half-assed. I do more planning for a 45-minute dog walk.Quote:
Originally Posted by fomofo
Asphyxiation via flagellation inhalation.
You can be above the law but no one is above physics
Except buttahflake. Take a lap.Quote:
Originally Posted by detrusor
the whole thing could have been avoided if they had just asked in tech talk which LocTite to use.
amateurs.