https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-us-canada-65953941News is treating this as a huge drama with BBC running a 'live updates' page. Onboard is confirmed to be a billionaire who made his fortune in private jets - can we all come together and hope for a safe return?
817 posts and 265 image replies omitted.>>572258this is fucking great.
Even the BBC narrative is about his lack of safety.
what happened to that anon who claimed it was all made up and lies lol?
>>572193>Would you watch it?If it weren't for the
lorum ipsum text on the bottom, I would have this poster hanging on my wall.
>>572204My guess: the risk-reward calculation of saying it earlier doesn't pay off.
If you announce you've heard an implosion then winding down the rescue mission makes sense. If, a few days down the line, someone finds a tin full of asphyxiated corpses floating on the surface then you've doubly fucked up - you killed the rescue mission (so you're getting the blame for the corpse can)
and you've revealed that your surveillance system or the people operating it are unreliable.
Conversely, if you announce you've heard an implosion and the rescue mission is called off, sure, you save a rounding-error in taxpayer money, and you can flex that you heard it go pop, but ultimately it's not that much more impressive than if you announce it later, which you can do with no risk.
Plus the media probably don't really want to hear it - if you say "we heard it go pop on our magic navy microphone" then CNN are gonna find a guy who says that's just two dolphins colliding and then go back to speculating about Oxygen levels until the camera-robot gets down there and finds the billionaire Supa value pond flakes.
>>572258Wow so the kid's safety concerns were about fucking whales eating them? What a moron.
>>572259He's talking about the history of commercial submersibles presumably. Which makes this all even more ironic since that track record of safety is precisely because of all the precautions he ignored. The more I see behind the curtain the more it seems that this guy was some combination of delusional and getting a thrill from the Russian roulette factor.
>>572293Tru dat!
>>572202How would you argue that making light of porky’s misfortune is actually a correct and rational self-interest driven behavior. I have friends who seem rather put off by my agitation regarding this, but I personally sense that it is correct to insert anti-capitalist levity and class critique against the bourgeoisie in this moment (as opposed to ignoring the class differences through engaging in national mourning and anxiety).
>>572291I can definitely see that. Parents love downplaying the concerns of their children and he may have had some valid concerns about the little tin can.
In the end, we tragically lost some poor sad billionaires, and that's the true heartbreaking tragedy here. :(
>>572126Worry not, anon. It's believed that the people on board knew their deaths were imminent and that they were going to die at sea with nobody knowing their whereabouts. I know it isn't perfect and I would've rathered them suffocate at the bottom of the ocean myself; we should take what we can get. (2nd picrel)
Although, I don't know if James fucking Cameron is really the best guy to be giving this information.
>>572285tbf it's inherently harder and more expensive to look for a submarine than to look for a boat. with a boat you just fly a plane over a few times and if you can't find anyone, that's because they're underwater and dead. boom, cancel the search. submarines are a bitch because it's perfectly possible they're underwater but those onboard spite the taxpayer by continuing to live while playing hide-and-seek with would-be rescuers.
(but naturally the class dynamic still applies since
poor civilians don't tend to go missing in holiday submarines.)
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