Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.
I’m only following to make sure he’s really dead. The world could use less billionaires
Do you want my billionaire? I thought it would be a novelty, to show off to my friends, like a houseplant, but it turns out, its kind of just a piece of shit.
I get where you are coming from, but there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May.
Also, billionaires should not exist.
That makes it worse. The event I was talking about was May of 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61369229
As I said, “there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May”. There have also been untold horrors unleashed on Ukraine since then. War is hell. Russia sucks.
My bad, I misread your post and thought you were talking about the 19 innocent people killed by Russian missiles in April of this year. Sorry, my bad.
It’s all good. When I was a kid in the '70s, I was living on Okinawa. The bomb people would come to my elementary every year and give a speech about what not to do if we would stumble upon unexploded ordinance. 40 years after WWII. I came to age reading about the awful, and ongoing, horrors of landmines in places like Cambodia. Reading/watching news about what’s going on now in Ukraine is heartbreaking, and I can’t help thinking about the long term impacts that a traumatized population will suffer. And the following years of shit exploding when a field is being plowed or whatever. It is almost too awful to even contemplate. In light of that, I agree with you, a handful of rich assholes going missing in the Atlantic is nothing.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
It’s because it’s related to the Titanic, and for whatever reason that shipwreck has a grip on western psyches. Dunno why but it just is what it is
If only these people didn’t have so much money to waste, they’d be safe. Karma?
Well, it is like space exploration. There are scientists, engineers and those who dream to be them. It is just part of humanity that we love going on adventures, that’s the same for rich and poor. Only that some are more risk tolerated and some less
This man is not a scientist, engineer, or anyone with any social value whatsoever.
That’s true but he’s among 4 other people who do have social value.
He might fund people who are though (…though I wish we didn’t have a system that would need that…)
Well anyone ‘could’ fund anything, but this guy has made his fortune on private jets, him dying is almost certainly a good thing for the world. Imagine how much damage.
The company that provides these tours uses the money to also perform scientific research on the Titanic.
What ‘scientific research’ is there that needs to be done on the Titanic in 2023? That’s an obvious smokeshow.
Oh dear.
Anyway…
I sure hope the sub is okay.
I hope the other people get rescued though. :(
Cool
A billionaire doing his part on stopping the existence of billionaires would be great. I fear the inheritence, though. Maybe something good will come out of it.
I can only say: I would have not wished that person harm. I would have wished them to return safely. But it does not make me sad to hear that they did not.
I imagine the same thing happened here as with some airliner crashes where the pressure failsafe didn’t work and they all passed out and suffocated. They probably didn’t even know there was an issue before going unconscious.
Can you explain how this counts as news, @hikarulsi@lemmy.world?
This is massively insulting to the rest of the people onboard as well, who are not mentioned in the article from what I saw.
Billionaires dying is news in my book!
