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seawoowaes ,
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he is an expert on submersibles

dottedgreenline ,
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I like Alien more than Aliens.

Akasazh ,
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Sooo brave

fidelacchius ,

Only the gooberment can protect us from rich people getting killed private subs. Plz take more of my tax dollars.

FlyingSquid ,
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“And, by the way, watch Avatar: The Way of the Water today on Disney+!”

sagrotan ,
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Avatar: the way of the billionaire

Silverstrings ,
@Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

James Cameron actually has a lot of experience in submarine exploration, if any celebrity should be weighing in on this it’s him.

Default_Defect ,
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Didn’t they ignore a bunch of regulatory bodies by claiming the passengers were experts and not tourists? I think throwing more laws at it won;t do much, unless they close similar loopholes.

teolan ,
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I think they ignored standard testing, but this was never made mandatory

kep ,

Mission Specialists.

They were given trivial tasks to perform to justify the title. It was in bad faith and should have rung alarm bells. But I anticipate for the luxury thrill-seeker, they may be accustomed to fancy titles for their trips, and didn’t even really think about it.

ipkpjersi ,

The CEO bragged about building the submarine out of used parts and said that regulations were boring. He sealed his fate long before it happened.

DaveNa ,

Yup. He just wants attention.

drmoose ,

Don’t waste tax money on this. If some rich idiots want to unalive themselves in a can to see some garbage at the bottom of the ocean - let them.

EdibleFriend ,
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…please leave ‘unalive’ on places like tik tok.

Hexadecimalkink ,

It’s too late man it’s now apart of the modern language. Insert Abe Simpson “I used to be hip…” meme.

EdibleFriend ,
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It really only is, for the most part, on places like tik tok and youtube where the word ‘dead’ is banned. And it occasionally slips out into normal society but…just…no.

Hexadecimalkink ,

I think the slippage is going to increase. It’s a full word not like “LOL”, people will say it IRL.

Ryumast3r ,

I’ve never heard someone say it irl yet.

Until then

EdibleFriend ,
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like 8 years ago i worked with this girl who would fucking say hashtag. like someone would say something really crazy and she would be like “hashtag really?”

I…really hated her…

Platomus ,

I teach middle school. During the school year, I heard it two dozen times daily.

It’s getting tiresome already.

drmoose ,

Contrary to popular belief the word “dead” is not banned on tiktok or youtube. Do people really think that the censor can be tricked by a synonym a 5 yeard old could come up with?

Real argument is to protect people with trauma as seeing “dead” can be a trigger but even then it doesn’t make much sense as it’s the same word - just spelled differently. The only way this would work if we come up with new word for “death” every few months before our brains re-asocciate the synonyms but that’s absurdly impractical and impossible to implement. I do think it’s an interesting language phenomena tho and is fun to explore.

EdibleFriend ,
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Now that I look yeah…your right. I fell for interwebs bullshit. But completely agree on you about the constant changing of words. And going going back to the original though…if you are so triggered by the word dead/death…im sorry but you just need to learn to live with that. Society cant abandon such incredibly basic words because of people like that.

Comment105 ,

I don’t know, but to me “suicide” and “kill” seem like the words that would’ve been banned. Not “dead”.

drmoose ,

I was using it satirically and I honestly think that’s where this word is going. I find it fascinating though - it’s absolutely meaningless but it also sounds safe and incredibly artificial. It’s full of these paradoxical features that make this word really fun. I’d invest meme points into it tbh.

scarabic ,

I was this close to agreeing with you and then I remembered there was a kid on that sub, and now I’m thinking this was a really shitty thing to say.

jkmooney ,
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A kid and a researcher who made regular trips to document the flora growing on the site.

lolcatnip ,

Technically an adult. But yeah, he’s the one victim I feel sorry for.

Shard ,

We’ve already wasted money on them.

Who do you think paid the coast guards and navies of the multiple nationals that conducted the deep sea search for Titan?

Hint: Tax payers.

jkmooney ,
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I don't know about the others, but Coast Guard gets paid regardless. These events justify their budget. It wasn't an "extra cost" to the taxpayers.

Carighan ,
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I’ll be honest, I don’t think that’s a sensible approach. Yes, it’s billionaires offing themselves, sure. But regulations are quite important, in particular in sensible and critical areas like this.

If they also protect some billionaires that’s an unfortunate side effect, but overall these regulations would be very good to have. The rise of venture capitalist attitude outside of IT is only going to get worse, so the sooner we can establish rules against that the better.

drmoose ,

Could you expand on why? Surely there must be more important areas to spend resource to regulate than protecting some rich people hobbie that only few people per year partake in. It would cost millions of dollars to regulate something like this effectively. The only argument I can think off is that it could cost less to regulate than to “save and rescue” these idiots but save and rescue is not a pro bono service for the most part either. They or their insurance will have to cover the costs of this.

Silverstrings ,
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Human life has value, even when they’re people you don’t like.

drmoose ,

dunno man the whole thing is a bit absurd. At the same time literally over 400 people drowned trying to escape poverty. It’s really hard to care for this particular human value when there’s this massive injustice. Reality is we don’t have infinite resources and attention - we should direct it more efficiently than this.

Silverstrings ,
@Silverstrings@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Unironically go fuck yourself, this is a sociopathic perspective. I don’t have much sympathy for Mister “safety is waste” himself but the people he lied to about the safety of his sub didn’t deserve to die.

drmoose ,

The thing is that it’s not a binary on/off issue it’s resource distribution issue. Why should we collectively spend absurd amount of resources to protect this extremely small entertainment niche when there are literally people dying from preventable issues. I’m not an utalitarian but it’s really hard not to agree with their philosophy when you see events like this: rich people die in some absurd hobby and we spend more protecting them than hundreds of poor people literally drowning at the same time trying to escape unlivable poverty conditions. Like, I’m sorry man, but maybe you should redirect your anger there.

BurtReynoldsMustache ,

I for one welcome more of these “catastrophic failures” if it means more billionaires will lose their lives. Worthless sociopathic assholes

TwoGems , (edited )
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Ribbit

Sterile_Technique ,
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The only disaster was that they didn’t manage to squeeze a few more billionaires on board.

Coreidan ,

Stick to making crappy movies you out of touch dinosaur.

IphtashuFitz ,

He’s extremely knowledgeable about submersibles. He helped design and build the Deepsea Challenger, which he then took to the bottom of Challenger Deep, the deepest known location on the planet. He’s one of two people to have done that.

He has a ton more experience on top of that. I’ll leave it up to you to go learn about it if you can be bothered to do so.

Coreidan ,

And he’s still an out of touch dinosaur. He can take his sub and shove it.

BurtReynoldsMustache ,

This is true. HOWEVER, he’s only opening his mouth to push for legislation on this because he doesn’t want any more of his asshole billionaire friends to die. This isn’t out of altruism for the average Joe… because let’s face it, how many folks do you know who can afford a trip like that?

exponential_wizard ,

James Cameron is a leading expert in undersea exploration. Touch grass you out of touch redditor

Coreidan ,

ROFL. Love James Cameron much? Stop idolizing celebrities ffs. I think you’re the one that needs to touch grass instead of caring about what some boomer thinks.

jkmooney ,
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I don't know, I'm an aircraft structural engineer and, based upon what technical commentary I did hear him make, it kinda sounds to me like he knows what he's talking about.

mojo ,

At this rate, I can see a billionaire stepping on a lego and saying legos need to be regulated.

Iapar ,

Interesting. What has ja rule say to this?

Landmammals ,

They are operating in international waters. Who would oversee these regulations?

Kecessa ,

The port from which they launch and the country where the company is registered.

If it’s all done incognito and they fuck up then too bad.

IphtashuFitz ,

There are plenty of mutually agreed upon international regulations that ships, aircraft, etc. all abide by. It’s not rocket science (well there’s that too).

jkmooney ,
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I work in aviation regulatory law but, a friend of mine does work in this arena. I did ask him if my analog existed in the nautical world and he was able to walk me through how he'd managed to avoid any regulatory oversight. There's SOLAS but, other than that, it's a gap that apparently needs to be closed.

Landmammals ,

I’m not a lawyer, but it seems like the subs only operate in international waters. The ships carrying these deep sea submersibles dock at ports, but the subs themselves are cargo until you get out into the middle of nowhere.

Lenins2ndCat ,
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Nah. Let the rich morons off themselves.

I am calling for even fewer regulations. Negative regulations.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0f3f8dc8-8048-49ba-89b8-820638ba7e92.png

Sterile_Technique ,
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Negative regulations

force billionaires on board sketchy-ass subs and send them a few miles down?

I like it.

ours ,

Musk and Zuck next please.

afraid_of_zombies ,

I am calling for less. No billionaire should be stopped from going on an unregulated submarine.

magnor ,
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Let them enjoy the deregulated world they created.

scarabic ,

Can we just have one law about them not taking their kids, maybe?

afraid_of_zombies ,

Deal

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