• Parade du Grotesque@lemmy.sdf.org
    1452·
    11 days ago

    That submarine imploding near the Titanic will never be not funny. Especially since the guy who designed it believed in the “move fast and break things” nonsense.

    Every person on board paid a pretty penny to be on that sub, so no pity from me either (except perhaps for the teenager who was reportedly terrified to go on, but did it to please his rich prick father).

        • stoy@lemmy.zip
          355·
          11 days ago

          Subhuman?

          Really? You are invoking Nazi expressions, and expect to be winning?

          • tht@social.pwned.pageEnglish
            233·
            11 days ago

            Well for me humans need to have morality, compassion, they need to care for others, the bourgeoisie don’t do that, so they aren’t humans for me

            • stoy@lemmy.zip
              373·
              11 days ago

              So you are failing your own morality test, and handwaving it away.

              How convenient.

              I thought history was quite clear, time and time again, it has been shown that once you declare a group of persons as “subhuman” bad shit start happening.

    • chaosCruiser@futurology.todayEnglish
      441·
      11 days ago

      I’ve seen some interesting YT videos about the engineering behind the sub. Turns out, that sub was a ticking time bomb, and many people had warned about it. The controller thing was perfectly fine, but the walls were not.

      • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
        28·
        11 days ago

        Their crack detector thing actually detected a problem on the previous trip… Just nobody checked it…

    • GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca
      18·
      11 days ago

      Moving fast and breaking things can be a great R&D philosophy…when health and safety aren’t a concern or have been addressed.

      • Wutchilli@feddit.org
        6·
        10 days ago

        And to add on that R&D thing. It’s supposed to be move fast and break things to learn what things are not working good enought so you can deliver a finished not-breaking-stuff-thing.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      11 days ago

      The photo of the shitty Logitech controller will never not make me laugh… Anyone who has ever handled a controller before knows those things are absolute garbage lol

  • ultranaut@lemmy.world
    73·
    11 days ago

    Super rich guy tried to pick up my then girlfriend at an industry event after party kind of thing. She was not impressed by any of his shit. The look of disappointment on his face after showing off his $250k watch still makes me smile all these years later.

    • 211@sopuli.xyz
      13·
      11 days ago

      Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre…), but not part of the target demographic.

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        8·
        10 days ago

        I have some lower-four-figure watches and am always way more impressed by someone with a Casio or non-grand Seiko, they clearly have more sense than me, and excellent taste on top

            • 211@sopuli.xyz
              3·
              10 days ago

              Got excited enthusing about watches I thought are cool. Very long and deraily for the original topic. But in summary I think there’s a factor to the dance of advanced mechanics, so to say, and the deliberate absence of contemporary smart functions. A “soul”, if you will. Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person, and just having one suggests they may be “my people”. 😅

              Though Rolexes are imho fugly often gaudy pieces that do have in-house movements but it clearly isn’t their main selling point. Please don’t use them as an example. I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be, ChromeOS?

              • Zagorath@aussie.zone
                2·
                9 days ago

                Oh damn, that’s a great comment! I’m glad you put it up, if only in summary form.

                Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person

                Hahaha. Yeah absolutely. And indeed, that’s sort of what I was getting at with my earlier comment. I’m a runner and triathlete. I can geek out about someone’s Garmin and relate to that in a way I just don’t care about any other timepiece. That’s what my watch says about me, and I’m very conscious of it. It doesn’t feel like being a “watch person” so much as being an amateur athlete.

                I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be

                Ubuntu. It’s 100% Ubuntu. Which, fwiw, is my Linux distro of choice. I like Linux, but I don’t care about it in a meaningful way. I can count on one hand the number of hours I’ve spent using a non-Debian based Linux distro (Android excluded, of course). Ubuntu, or some closely-related Debian-based distro, gets the job done. It lets me have the low level easy terminal access I don’t get on Windows and only kinda-sorta get on Mac, and any problem I have is exceptionally easy to Google because it’s what all the tutorials and questions are geared towards.

                As for not using Rolex, unfortunately for better or worse, they are the by-word for “fancy watch”. It’s the one brand everyone will have heard of and understand basically what it means.

  • SwingingTheLamp@midwest.socialEnglish
    61·
    11 days ago

    I have this pet theory about how people who learn that their privilege lets them bend or ignore human laws subconsciously believe that they can bend or ignore any law. So I always enjoy it when rich assholes buy super-cars and wrap them around trees, a surprisingly common occurrence, because the laws of physics aren’t impressed by your financial portfolio.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    491·
    11 days ago

    I only heard about it after it happened. Guy in the last year of high school said his parents wanted him to go to college but he probably wouldn’t because that was “stupid” or something similar. Girl in the group blew up on him because she desperately wanted an education and couldn’t afford tuition basically anywhere. She called him spoiled and selfish, I believe.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      16·
      11 days ago

      That’s great. Hopefully that was a formative memory for that kid… I’ve had one or two moments when I was a young teen, where I had to have a friend break a hard truth to me about my behavior/attitude, and I still remember it because he was absolutely right and just being aware of it made a huge difference from that point forward. I still think about what he said sometimes.

      I only wish someone had said something sooner…

      • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        I had the same experience. One day in high school, my dumb teenage ass was running my mouth off against affirmative action like the edgy dumbass I was, and a classmate just absolutely handed my ass to me. Teacher didn’t even interrupt, just let it happen.

        I’m glad I was able to thank him for that like 12 years later on Facebook. Really planted a seed that needed planting.

  • scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com
    22·
    10 days ago

    The Titan submersible incident comes to mind. ESPECIALLY after viewing the released coastguard hearings.

      • scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com
        6·
        10 days ago

        Oh it was super interesting! Stories from experts strongly advising against design decisions but being ignored, colleagues and industry officials raising concerns, the utter failure of OSHA in protecting the wistleblowers, multiple red flags being ignored, the batshit insane list of failures during previous dives being ignored, the lack of safety culture, administrative office crew doubling as safety inspectors/dive operators/engineers while having no qualifications whatsoever for that job, the absolute lack of free speech to voice concerns/toxic positivity that was expected from everyone/repercussions against people that did try to speak up, the pressure put on potential mission specialists to continue their trip if they tried to back out, the extremely dubious “mission specialist” term used to describe passengers just to get out of insurance and liability, the long, long list of questionable design choices made by someone who had no proper experience, the cost cutting mentality, the “meh its good enough” mentality,…

        The list goes on and on and on. Those hearings are worth watching with popcorn. I was hooked and watched them all, but of you have to pick some, choose those from david lochridge, tony nissen, renata rojas, karl stanley, bart kemper and bonnie carl.

        The most entertaining part is the board asking seemingly ‘stupid’ or gullible questions and having the pro-oceangate witnesses digging their own grave trying to spin the answer in a positive light; while everybody already knows the real answer.

        https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgOje37c-b1NswzbM8kMEGRrdup_xwlW9

        • scaramobo@lemmynsfw.com
          2·
          10 days ago

          I mean, the CO scrubber was an Ikea plastic box with a CPU fan hooked to it. Literally.

          Just absolutely mindboggling.

    • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
      11·
      10 days ago

      Gods, I remember interviewing to be a floor tech at Doctor’s Medical Center in Modesto when they first got their bourgeoise floor. It still upsets me to think about it 12 years later. Healthcare is healthcare, there shouldn’t be a damn luxury floor, and especially not while other people are getting bankrupted with bills where the numbers are basically snatched out of thin air anyway.