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The ‘Titan’ Submersible Disaster Was Years in the Making, New Details Reveal (archive.ph)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“One experiential data point is not sufficient to determine the integrity of the hull”

Yeah man. That's what the other 50 tests would be for.

Some people genuinely think the world runs on who-says. He's a real smart guy - he asserts this is fine - therefore it must be. Anyone who disagrees is challenging him, and saying he's not smart, and that can't possibly be true because look how much money he has. This is the raw chest-beating tribal mindset that I think defines conservatism, as an innate human ideology. I understand why people in that loyalist mode are unconvinced by reasoned argument. I have no idea why allegedly rational outsiders in the critical mode keep trying anyway. The search for 'what loyalists really believe' is a category error.

They don't believe things - they believe people.