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Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
  • I wouldn't be surprised. But, I suspect there's also a factor of just implausibility. Apparently, the main vessel they use is "experimental", so it may just literally be impossible to have a recovery vessel without being a literal government.

    My money's on this being the result of someone ignoring the "hey, these are not good conditions" warnings.

  • Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
  • One of the other posts in the feed makes it sound like they only do it a handful of times a year, and that cost is covering a multi-day excursion since they have to wait for conditions to be right. Still, no excuse to not have contingencies, but I think their take gets eaten into a fair bit more than the raw math would suggest.

  • Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
  • So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there's a post suggesting that a group of explorers were apparently on board based on one of them's Facebook feed, so it's safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.

  • Titanic tourist submersible goes missing with search under way
  • BBC's also got a live feed going for this.

    Apparently, the sub's supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.

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  • Because if you let women have authority, people might start believing things like "men are not automatically good without needing to actually do good things" and "authority isn't instantly derived from the circumstances of your birth but instead based on your merits as a leader".

  • what was the last game you beat?
  • I mean, I know why I haven't yet in spite of also having played the game since beta.

    ... It's because I'm lazy and hate grinding for materials.

  • what was the last game you beat?
  • True Pacifist Undertale just the other day. Which, to be fair, took me something like two years to get around to doing because I was way too lazy to deal with some of the ending fights of Neutral route.

    Now I have the itch to go back and play EarthBound again... Which may be related to the lo-fi Mother 2 mix that got posted earlier today over in the Music community.

  • How do you Haiku?
  • Two trips to the store—
    Because I forgot TP—
    Under a warm sun.

  • [LIVE THREAD] Donald Trump's arraignment in Miami; his supporters expected to protest outside of courthouse
  • No, no. It still works if you pull back just a bit more and realize the "derogatory" elements are entirely manufactured by large companies looking to exploit the individual as part of an undifferentiated mass!

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  • I'm still tickled hours later at how eager folks were to figure that out. :D

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  • Oh, yeah. I realize that there's a lot of nuance at play. It's just that I'm a historian who grew up in the Deep South, so I'm well aware that whatever other excuses and loopholes are used, it's ultimately all about trying to reinstate segregation by another name. Because it always is.

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  • Roberts’ opinion brought a strongly worded dissent from conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, who accused the majority — including his colleague Brett M. Kavanaugh — of creating a “consciously segregated districting system” in the name of the Voting Rights Act.

    I really want to know what he thinks the current system is if it's not that.

  • [LIVE THREAD] Donald Trump's arraignment in Miami; his supporters expected to protest outside of courthouse
  • Exactly. Or even just a "They didn't nab me, so I must be important enough to protect" for the ones who are deep in the paint.

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  • Unfortunately, they’re capable and willing to make their own safe spaces for themselves

    I mean, the lovely thing about them doing that is that it then becomes increasingly easy to identify and communicate which places are cesspools to be avoided and also to mitigate access when possible. Quarantining isn't really an option when everyone's on one big website, but it's a lot easier when folks are running their own boards and building their own communities.

  • [LIVE THREAD] Donald Trump's arraignment in Miami; his supporters expected to protest outside of courthouse
  • I'm sure there's at least gonna be a couple of eyes looking out for that because they are exactly the kind of people who'd show up to this expecting no one'll arrest them.

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  • I am pleased for my role in performing science today. :D

  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2
  • You mean the same Luke Skywalker who threw his lightsaber away while confronting the most powerful men in the galaxy on board their planet-killing superweapon? And also tried to talk down the ruthless crime lord who had both his sister and her boyfriend as hostages? :P

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  • All the satisfaction of downvoting someone for being wrong, but none of the knock-on social effects, eh?

  • I'm really enjoying no down votes on Beehaw
  • That's what seems to be the case. So, it's looking like it's basically a placebo button for y'all. :P

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