• Bazell@lemmy.zip
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    15 hours ago

    Agree, but their goodness buried so deep down inside of them that it is not visible in darkness of their own actions.

  • HisArmsOpen@crust.piefed.social
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    I wasn’t especially feeling mournful for the billionaire guy who ignored ALL the engineers. I do lament that his son who didn’t want to go in the first place was effectively coerced into joining the trip. As an experimental design, the guy could have gone by himself to test it, if a remote controlled operation wasn’t an option. But no, his ego led to the death of his son and some hapless people who were also tricked.

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      As an experimental design, the guy could have gone by himself to test it

      It’s worse. They had already gone on multiple trips, and the hull already was full of micro-fractures that he was warned about. They had a system that in theory was able to correctly identify when it was too unsafe and to abort allowing them to keep using it with the fractures, he manually turned it off for the final dive.

      I do feel for the child though.

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      Good point: we are actually that child, coerced into letting those rich guys dumbness, greed and egomania destroy our world and everything on it

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      I lament he didn’t bring all his friends, family, lawyers, bankers, business associates, etc.