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Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
Weirdly disturbed by the Titan submersible story. It’s shoddy engineering decisions and corner-cutting pretending to be “innovation vs regulations” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/20/us/oceangate-titanic-missing-submersible.html
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@j4ck.eth
in college i had a Humanities course and we discussed the hubris of naming a ship The Titanic–the name doomed it to its fate The Titan strikes the same chord in its naming and sadly its fate as well
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Trish🫧
@trish
It's not weird at all. It's giving me nightmares I never knew existed. Did you catch him saying something along the lines as "safety is for suckers"
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