woteorin

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (19 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Two trips to the store—
Because I forgot TP—
Under a warm sun.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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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