Oceangate

Families are calling for an investigation.

They had more money than sense. Went down. ‘Mploded.

There. Saved them a job.

I'd take deep sea over space but there are much more interesting things than a sunken ship, unless there be booty

I went on the 2000 Leagues Under the Sea ride at Disney when I was a kid. I’m lucky I survived.

Their assets are more valuable.

In space if it goes wrong you watch yourself turn inside out.

Hah waded in. What a titanic douche.

Meanwhile, Obama questioned why we’re spending so much time on the sun when hundreds died on the Greek migrant ship.

He might not be able to be President again, but could he come over here and be Prime Minister?

To think Boris used to ride his bike around London and no one did the decent thing and throw a broom handle into his wheels.

Absolute mad man.

*sheds tear
You’re a mensch, Aquaman.

If wealthy people want to spend stupid money doing stupid and obviously* dangerous things then that's up to them. We don't need to regulate informed competent people doong stupid shit that harms themselves.

The idea that these people were doing anything noble or advancing anything is preposterous.

(*The waiver they signed made it clear it was unregulated and unapproved)

Yeah, he is not wrong about this.

Hundreds of poor people get stranded looking for a better life, with every hope of rescue? Governments say "awwwww do we have to?", nobody cares, bucks get passed, hundreds die, and still nobody cares.

5 rich people get stranded on a deep-sea joyride with basically no hope of rescue? Everyone cares, minute-by-minute updates, 5 people die. Let's spend $100m on the resc... sorry, salvage operation.

It really is quite fucked.

But it's not just our hearing about it. It's everything, from the politics to the resources being put into saving the people, to the blink-and-you'll-miss-it news coverage.

It's not a new problem, and I'm certainly no better at paying attention to things happening around the world that are probably more important than some rich idiots killing themselves. But proportion is a good thing to be reminded of from time to time.

Nfi what to do about it though, it feels like an uphill struggle to get people to care about some things. Politicians don't care because they (probably correctly) don't think the public cares, and the public doesn't care because they're either not paying attention, or because they've been fed rubbish about poor brown people coming to take the jobs and do crimes.