axl-fox
ladyshinga

“Stop exploring the ocean!” = ❌🚫❎👎

“Stop letting rich people explore it for their own vanity and instead fund scientists who know what they’re doing down there, are exploring it for the actual betterment of humanity and their understanding of the world we live in, and won’t go down there in subs that havn’t been peer-reviewed to hell and back” = 🤘💙🆗✔️

axl-fox
iverna

In case anyone actually cares about this issue, some good news: 227 migrants were rescued off the Canary Islands and 294 migrants were rescued off the coast of Italy yesterday/today.

It was in the news.

Haven't seen anyone talking about it on here for some reason so I thought I'd share!

sunflowerdigs
sunflowerdigs

Don't let them reframe this as the unavoidable cost of innovation. Don't let them say that because it's sad that people died, we need to give their deaths purpose and meaning. This was absolutely avoidable. The deaths, including that of the 19-year-old, were completely pointless. Regulations exist for a reason. And ignoring expert after expert after expert who warns you that your enterprise is highly unsafe is not innovative, it's just stupid. Billionaire hubris isn't some magical energy that transcends the basic laws of physics. Money can't do that.

Typically, it's the working man who pays in blood in these situations but this time, it wasn't. It's too much to hope that maybe this will teach the billionaire class anything, but at the very least, it should be a reminder to everyone else that billionaires aren't better or smarter or harder working than people with less money. They just have more resources to exploit.