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Neddy Seagoon posted:So there's not just the potential for a dead billionaire, but that, if still alive, they die cold and in the dark deep underwater, slowly suffocating over four days as their hope fades and they realize all their money amounts to nothing as nobody rescues them? Dude what the gently caress is wrong with you lmao. Like yeah I am also sickened by the vast wealth these people have but lusting for them to die horrifically is a bit much
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razamataza posted:Dude what the gently caress is wrong with you lmao. Like yeah I am also sickened by the vast wealth these people have but lusting for them to die horrifically is a bit much Yeah, guillotines are way more humane
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Jun 20, 2023 12:13
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I don’t think we should lust for these wealthy people’s deaths, much less painful ones, but the obituaries and fawning coverage of their “contributions to society” are going to be very disproportionate and distasteful when compared to what we get for any run of the mill fatal accident. If mourning was in proportion to the value of a life, they should get similar coverage to the kid who jumped off the party boat in Florida.
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Jun 20, 2023 12:21
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Nar, its ok for people to lust after billionaire death, you don't ever make that amount of money without brutally exploiting folks. I am this threads moral compass now and I say kill em all
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alf_pogs posted:that's probably one of the best billionaire-killing machines i've ever seen second only to mt everest
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Jun 20, 2023 12:32
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Someone better at bullying Musk than me bully him into summiting Everest in Winter.
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Halisnacks posted:Billionaires’ midlife crises and other bouts with ennui are definitely more spectacular. Freeze to death on Everest, spend billions on Twitter while becoming increasingly addicted to it, compress in the depths of the ocean. Weird, people usually take time off work to relax and decompress.
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Jun 20, 2023 12:35
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Between the orcas and the sub, sea's doing work lately
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Halisnacks posted:Billionaires’ midlife crises and other bouts with ennui are definitely more spectacular. Freeze to death on Everest, spend billions on Twitter while becoming increasingly addicted to it, compress in the depths of the ocean. Billionaire diamond tycoon dies during Paris penis enlargement operation
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razamataza posted:Dude what the gently caress is wrong with you lmao. Like yeah I am also sickened by the vast wealth these people have but lusting for them to die horrifically is a bit much Real talk I don't actually want to kill the rich and I'm fully aware that it wouldn't solve any problems because the underlying economic systems remain the same. Overthrowing those systems and forcing these people to live normal lives working menial jobs would be far worse torture for them anyway. All that said I'm still gonna laugh at them, especially when they bring it upon themselves cause their libertarian brainworms didn't let them see that walking into this obvious deathtrap was a bad idea.
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gschmidl posted:Someone better at bullying Musk than me bully him into summiting Everest in Winter. Nah, he's too chicken. No way he's brave enough or cool enough to try to summit. And if he somehow does work up the nerve there's no way he'd be as savvy as Trump to cut off the dead weight and fire his sherpas for trying to steal his glory
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Jun 20, 2023 12:38
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Someone tell him that if he summits K2 in winter, they'll rename it Mount Musk 420/69
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Teratrain posted:We're just going to keep sending the inheritors down to the bottom of the ocean until the wealth is spread out enough that no one person has more than a billion, thus finally reducing the number of billionaires. Now you've got me wondering what the natural tendency would be if you did this — whether the wealth would spread out to lots of smaller millionaires, or if all the billionaires would just bequeath their money to the same beneficiaries for some reason until on a long enough time scale you would have one giant fat spider hoarding all the wealth of the planet
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Teratrain posted:Weird, people usually take time off work to relax and decompress. I will say that capitalism has likely infected billionaires’ brains too so they truly believe they have the do SOMETHING (and that something should somehow be proportional to their obscene wealth). I don’t think the landed gentry felt this same ludicrous urge.
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Data Graham posted:Between the orcas and the sub, sea's doing work lately Sharks too.
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First reaction: "No way, the guy with the candy wall in his mansion who wouldn't smoke weed with Snoop?"
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Data Graham posted:First reaction: "No way, the guy with the candy wall in his mansion who wouldn't smoke weed with Snoop?" I think you're confusing valve's gabe newell with minecraft's notch unless it was a joke? 
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necroid posted:I think you're confusing valve's gabe newell with minecraft's notch Show me two differences between Half Life and Minecraft. 
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Jun 20, 2023 13:55
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Yeah I mean my second reaction was something else
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Half Life knew when it peaked
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Binary Logic posted:You left out one of my fave 'billionaire dies by unforced error' headlines: Man stupid enough to think penis enlargement surgery is real has more money than like every single person in the city I'm in combined. Well. Had. Small favors I suppose.
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https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/1671000633845993473 TO-DO: Add Emergency Locator Beacon. We'll get around to that eventually, it'll be fine...
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Neddy Seagoon posted:https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/1671000633845993473 Issue closed: sub destroyed
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The sub was diving to about 12,000ft which is ~3650 meters. Pressure increases 1 atmosphere ever 10 meters. So, 365 BAR = 5,300 PSI I don't wish for the billionaires to be dead, but I would find it very funny just like I will laugh at the first billionaire to die in space travel.
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not sure which is funnier "why didn't the Titanic have good wifi" or "millions of lives"
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apparently they lost contact in the last 15 minutes of the dive, that sub could fit in a small suitcase now.
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My wife when I mentioned the sub to her: "Oh my god that's horrible. They'll probably die." Me: "At least one of them was a billionaire." Her: "Oh, that's not so bad then."
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If only we could have gotten Ian Miles Cheong to convince Elon to be on that sub.
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Elon, the code to remove all shadow bans from Twitter was written on the side of the Titanic. Not sure I'd trust Gabe's sub either. There were some issues he swore were going to be hammered out in the third version.
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Listen, I'm not "happy" that these people are very likely dead. But I still am, I don't know — not sad? A little smug, even? But that's weird, obviously, because death is sad. But I think I've figured out why I'm smirking and saying "what idiots." It's my reaction to the most blatant "gently caress you" anyone could ever give me, or anyone: "It's just my life -- who cares what happens?" People who die in stupid, obvious, preventable ways are disrespecting the very idea of Life. Their own. Mine. Everyone's. They throw away the most precious gift in the universe over vanity, or greed, or arrogance, or any number of sins. The people in that sub committed their lives to a hacked-together, unprofessional, poorly thought-out submarine that anyone in their right mind could see was a bad idea, but did it anyway, and in doing so they cheapened Life itself. Perhaps it's for that that I'm angry at them, because my own life is worth so much to me, so much more to me than theirs was to them. And that's why I feel like this.
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Dynastocles posted:Listen, I'm not "happy" that these people are very likely dead. But I still am, I don't know — not sad? A little smug, even? But that's weird, obviously, because death is sad. Are you looking for the word Schadenfreude?
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E the Shaggy posted:If only we could have gotten Ian Miles Cheong to convince Elon to be on that sub. would be cramped in there with all his bodyguards
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pixaal posted:Are you looking for the word Schadenfreude? Nah it's more than Schadenfreude. It's Lebensgleichgultigswut.
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zedprime posted:Work around: turn off the internet so the bystanders can't tweet making fun of us. I heard on the news this morning that the sub company is contacting anyone who went in the death tube previously to keep their mouth shut. "Out of respect" of course.
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Mostly I’m upset that this isolated incident is going to set the dangerous Billionaire shipwreck tourism industry back by years.
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I'm definitely not going to cry in my beer over idiots who decided to dive into the ocean in a tin can to look at a shipwreck. I wish the media gave half as much of a poo poo for average people who go missing or get into accidents than they do for people with much more money than sense.
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