data brokerage is a multi-billion dollar industry with entire armies of lobyists from Google, Apple, Tesla (probably) and who knows who else.

just in case you were wondering why it's not already done.

Yeah. That’s terrifying.

I’m gonna need a few snakes trained to jump-glide onto people for Halloween. Preferably snakes that tolerate kids.

Maybe a trained anaconda. For Joey.

Saying the universe was created, implies a creator.

I assume it was just something that happened.

So, y’all remember that twitter profile “Shit My Dad Says”?

One of them was “when people start talking about sick size, don’t whip out a ruler; keep your mouth shut, stuff your crotch and keep your pants on.”

(Or something like that.)

The more they insist that their nukes … whelp. The more we think we should let them whip one out.

Gotta keep the American dream alive.

Give people hope.

People with hope don’t revolt because they still have something to lose.

Most ag business, the people working the fields don’t own the land, the corporations do. Most of America’s farmland is owned by corporations and is worked on by employees being paid peanuts. (Frequently, undocumented immigrants whose status is being used to keep them from complaining about the illegally low wages.)

I don’t need to address anything.

You don’t need to either. That’s your choice.

But once again- you do seem to want to persuade people…. And I’m trying to help you do that. You do you, but you’re not going to get very far.

They’re being sued my 2 millionaire estates, a liability waiver is not enough, and I’m guessing Nargeolet (the explorer,) wasn’t exactly broke.

Usually liability waivers only apply to “reasonable “ risks that are known to both parties. “We might implode because we cheated out and aren’t doing the inspections and were using materials basic material science says we shouldn’t,” likely isn’t covered- it’s reasonable to assume they’re operating a safe sub when it blatantly wasn’t.

Sorry, my joke didn’t quite land- “couchfucker” stuck and he “didn’t even fuck a coach one time.”

(He does protest a bit much though. Maybe he tried it after it came out, or something.)

You know. You’re missing the point?

Your methods do not work. You know that. You can see the results.

All people are going to remember from your interactions is that you were a preachy jerk.

And it’s yet another interaction that reinforces the image that all vegans are preachy jerks- even if it is far from the truth.

You are literally hurting your cause.

had me giggling in the first half, since I knew where it was going. Had me snorting by the end.

Grand Old Pricks

It really is basic engineering.

Like.

Probably not even 101. We’re talking about material selection…. And the properties aren’t exactly unknown and the necessary capabilities aren’t unknown.

The only think that was really unknown is how many dived it had. (CF can be fickle. It’s almost certain there were Minor defects. That’s just something you engineer around, sure, but you never know how close those defects are to becoming not-minor, and it really doesn’t take much. A single micro crack in the wrong place and… well, it probably happened fast enough that they didn’t even know.)

You, know that you’re supposed to replace the frame if you crash because of similar issues (specifically delaminating being hard to identify without destructive testing )

Just saying.

Though I do believe it’s never imploded….hehe.

Can we get that truck a medal?

That’s the problem with the carbon fiber.

Composites like that have a limited lifespan, and they’re very hard to model- there’s a lot of assumptions going into the modeling like “the fibers are all laid perfectly” and “the resin-to-fiber ratio is perfect” and similar. It’s also super hard to check for defects.

Normally, a lot of this is worked around by increasing the amount of CFC to provide a margin if error.

The problem is that you eat up that margin of error as defects expand under the cyclic stress of going down and coming back up.

Worse, they were not inspecting the pressure hull in a way that could detect the nano- and -micro-cracks so they could tell when it was time to take it out of service.

(That kind of inspection is ridiculously expensive. Like. Yeah.)

Well.

Normally this is avoided by using (very expensive) materials like titanium alloys that are “strong” enough to not fatigue after a few trips. (Strong isn’t quite the right word.

Or extremely expensive (to make) acrylic (PMMA,). It’s expensive to make because of some extremely exacting tolerances.

Incidentally, one of the reasons acrylic is used a lot is its transparency makes it super easy to see defects like cracks. (Literally you can see them with no special equipment.)

In any case while CF isn’t exactly cheap, it was less expensive than a titanium hull, or the acrylic bubble hull you see on the Triton subs; but the whole inspection thing got nixed because of greed.

Fun fact; the only reason this hearing is happening is because two of the passengers were rich. Normal people don’t get this dog and pony show.

Other fun fact: they signed liability waivers. Which makes this a very fun dog and pony show.

but he hasn't even fucked a couch!

Or so he insists. One doth protest too much, methinks.

Greed. not "explorer passion".

The risks weren't unknown. People have been building submersibles capable of reaching that depth for quite some time, most of the people involved are very willing to share their lessons learned and give feedback. They were consulting with NASA and Boeing, both dropped it (I suspect because of a distinct unwillingness to heed their advice and warnings.).

OceanGate willfully ignored the risks, and the warnings, cut corners and found out. unfortunately four others found out, too. Though I only really feel bad for the kid.

he's just trying to get called something other than couchfucker.

unforntunately, couchfucker sticks harder than goatfucker.

“Mirrors”.

They wrote it for him. It is theirs.