As a soon to be 30 yr old this reminds me of the internet I grew up loving lol, feels just the right amount of old school to me

Companies don't even care beyond bare minimum for the labor that they pay why would they care about the labor they don't lol

It's more than a little ironic they [presumably] died in an accident caused by cutting corners on regulations and safety by saying things like "certifications cost too much time and money, we shouldn't have to train someone just to convince them that this is safe", as well as doing things like firing safety personnel when they object to the submersible's worthiness.

I saw someone call it the 'minimim viable submersible' and I've never heard a better description as someone who spends all day working on minimum-viable-product style projects

What if we all just didn't go in? They gonna fire everyone?

And they can sell the office too (good luck lmao), we are doing the company a service 😌

I am also surprisingly digging the low key feel of the small communities too. I won't be going back, this is not as hard as I was expecting

Going to the bottom of the atlantic in a pringles can is a pretty baller way to do it to yourself too.

Charging a quarter mil to do it to others is decidedly not baller 😞

NYT: manufacturing consent since before you were born, and after you die

A single congressional district within that state elected Marjorie Taylor Greene lol

Come on dog this is literally just 'yeah well what if we imagine a hypothetical world where MY argument is right, how about that?'

You fuckin know it lmao I was just reading on Twitter how they're sending up a c-130 and some special military submersible to help with the search. Who's paying for that? 🤷🏻‍♂️

If you're out there reading this as a reddit user looking for a new home, and you can still have trust in these megacorporations, idek what to say lmao

Hundreds of migrants drowned in the Mediterranean like not even more than a few days ago and I've seen at least 20x more of this kind of sentiment for a handful of rich dudes that wanted to go visit the titanic in a un-certified pringles can created by a company that recently fired it's director of marine operations because he wouldn't sign off on the safety of this thing. Their company website says they are not certified because certification impedes innovation 😵‍💫

Like I saw on Twitter yesterday these dudes are the deadest that anyone has ever been, whether you cry-yell at people on the internet for not being sufficiently crestfallen or not

Plus imagine being the poor coast guard team that has to crack that sucker open after they finally found and raised it 🤢

Or compare it to yet another innocuous bs fee slipped in under the radar by companies testing what they can get away with

People are wayyyyy underestimating what a market cap the size of meta can buy you. Mainly, it can buy any feasible competitor or threat to your perpetual domination. Then you simply eat them.

It's not that much different than how meta et al were trying to get tiktok banned on the guise of "security" when really they just didn't want to have to compete with them. The arguments will look a little different, but the strategy is the same

It's nice to reflect on how as a little kid I went and saw episodes 2 and 3 in theaters and thought the Jedi were so freaking cool man - then coming back to the series 20 years later having developed politics and realize the Jedi are pretty blatantly a corrupt, listless, doomed-by-its-own-inadequacy organization starting at the top.

Palpatine/fascism are the bad guys but the Jedi are certainly not the good guys, in a way that went ten miles over my head at the time lol. These movies deserve more credit imo

I am just so enamored with what the nuggets are doing, in an era where the dominance of attractive costal cities and super teams seems inevitable you gotta appreciate when teams like Denver or Milwaukee win it with home grown stars

Is that the one who has seven wives or whatever even though that's supposed to be not allowed?

You can see him struggling with the "they touch you, but not the other way around" rule 😅

Hey everybody come look at the off-putting nerd that scares away the hot girls at parties with his screeds

Don't worry if they did invent this, it would never be made available to me or you