Abandoned America in Elk: "If I were so obscenely rich I cou..."

If I were so obscenely rich I could drop half a million to take a family member on some risky trip to, say, the bottom of the ocean, I'd probably consider dropping a few thousand extra to hire someone to research whether the guy running the trip was a total clown who ignored blatant engineering and safety issues https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate

June 20, 2023 at 8:17:57 PM

I'm not trying to be a ghoul or anything here but I'll bet $20 they did more due diligence on their limo driver than the guy taking them to the bottom of the ocean in a sub that looks like it was ordered from wish.com

My only condolences so far are for Camping World and Charles Darwin.

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You are not being a ghoul. I would have thought the same. When the story broke out I honestly wondered who thought it was a good idea.

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TIL about wish.com. I can feel this pillow just by looking at it:

https://www.wish.com/search/Synthesizer/product/61e4d014d9317a6da0bfeac1?source=search&position=17

oh boy, that actually IS pretty badass. That's how they get you.

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I wish we could stop worrying about being perceived as ghouls. These are rich monsters who used the proceeds of their evil to take an extravagant vacation that backfired on them, and now the American taxpayers are paying for the Coast Guard to piss away time and resources searching for their dead asses.

Fuck them. I hope they die horribly and I will be glad when they do. They don't give a shit about my class so why should I give a shit about theirs?

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My only experience of the materials the sub is made from is with hiking poles where my options seemed to be do I want them to break by shattering (carbon fibre) or break by bending (aluminium) when used by someone with limited skills (me)