#oceangate's titan

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[Image description: a tweet by @legotrillermoth "LeReal Triller Moth" which says "what if the submarine comes back up and everything is fine except there's an extra guy in there for some reason".]

[ysabelmystic]

Very excited for this ngl

[a-tian]

I don’t want to find out about world events anymore

[gleep-glorp-bobcat]

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[Image description: a tweet by @drskyskull "skullsinthestars" which says "quote "Elon must be destroying the site on purpose he can't be that stupid!" Unquote, Last week a billionaire imploded, literally, because he thought he could outsmart the laws of physics. Never being told "no" makes a person stupid."]

[dumbfilmschoolkid]

While every force available in the world is searching for the 5 people in the oceangate submersible, a boat filled with mostly Syrian and Pakistani refugees sank under still “unknown” circumstances off the coast of Peloponnisos, Greece (with the coast guard present). More than 600 people drowned but guess which of the two is making headlines

[nando161mando]

[prokopetz]

"Private submarine carrying several billionaire tourists goes missing while surveying the wreckage of the Titanic."

Well, it had to happen eventually. This is where big-ticket extreme tourism and shooting untrained assholes into space and such was always going to lead – frankly, it's surprising that it took this long for a major incident to crop up.

"One of the missing passengers is the president and CEO of the company that owns and operates the submarine."

Huh. Well, points for putting his money where his mouth is, I guess. I wonder if–

"The missing CEO's name is Stockton Rush."

Oh, bullshit. That's not a real person – that's the name of a guy who builds an inexplicably 1950s-themed underwater theme park and then gets eaten by a shark in a cautionary tale about the perils of libertarianism. That's the name of a guy who carries off an oceanfront real estate scam that somehow ends with Superman fighting a telepathic squid. Fucking "Stockton Rush". Unbelievable.

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[Image descriptions in order: a screenshot of the Oceangate website, showing an "OceanGate Career Opportunity". The opportunity is for: Submersible Pilot/Marine Technician

The management of OceanGate, Inc. has an immediate opening for a Sub Pilot/Marine Technician to help manage and operate our fleet of manned".]

[A comment by handageddon which says "Too much pressure :(".]

"Why did the previous person who filled this role leave?"

[prideprejudce]

this is probably the best take I’ve heard so far on the debate of people being told that they aren’t having enough ‘compassion’ for billionaires making bad decisions and paying the obvious consequences for it

[civ5crab]

[secondbeatsongs]

source

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[Image descriptions in order: a tweet by @/DUSKdev "David Szymanski" which says "Apparently Iron Lung is trending because of the Titanic sub".]

[A reply tweet by @/ButtTheStuff "Arrow S. Morgan" which says "they made the torment nexus from your game "don't create the torment nexus"

i'm honestly not sure if i'd be honored or horrified in your shoes".

@/DUSKdev, the OP, responds "I'm pretty horrified tbh".]

[sapphia]

most sunken ships only manage to kill people once. hats off to the titanic, the safest ship of all time

[hookhausen]

the passengers on oceangate are dead (they imploded) and they confirmed the debris was from the submersible but the shit that has me fucking losing it is that the logitech controller made it out almost unscathed

[shattered-chandeliers]

Idk I just think that “I have empathy for the friends and family of those that were lost” and “based on everything we’ve learned, going down in that death-trap was an incredibly stupid decision and anyone could see that” and “it is ridiculous anyone would pay 250k to go see a mass grave, the wealth gap has gotten out of hand so I can’t find it in myself to shed tears for the men involved” and “it is heartbreaking a teenage boy was lost because he wanted to impress his father” are statements that can coexist.

Human emotions are grey.