Rich Lives matter

But F the poor I guess

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I'm out of the loop on this one. What happened?
- Rich dude created a company that provides submarine tours of the titanic wreckage, except he built it and operated it stupidly (off the shelf "camping" parts, bad weather conditions). Now he's trapped in the submarine with like 4 other folks where no one knows where they are, and they are expected to run out of oxygen in like 12 hours from posting this.
  Super tragic but like, totally avoidable.
  
  Those billionaires are obviously focused on taking as much money as possible for themselves, so... I don't feel a lot of sympathy for them. In fact, maybe it's a fitting end that all their money can't save them.
  
  I am impressed that he got these people to pay him for a ride in his janky submarine. I bet that each „ticket“ costs more than the whole submarine.
  
  Update: They found some debree that indicates implosion. They are dead for sure now.
  
  https://titanaircheck.com/
  
  That site seems broken.
  
  Yup, broken
  
  Just like the sub?
- Some rich people got put into a submersible where the glass hatch is bolted to the vehicle. The pilot then proceeds to turn on the Xbox controller to activate the vehicle. None of these rich people thought they should ask if the vehicle had and safety precautions, or perhaps a fucking steering wheel. The media has gone nuts over this story. Like "balloon boy" nuts.
  
  @jeebus @LoreleiSankTheShip the "Xbox Controller" concern is a little bit of a media boogeyman. Similar controllers are used for military vehicles too.
  
  "The Logitech F710 gamepad is a third-party wireless controller that can be used to play PC games.
  It is one of the cheaper and least reliable controllers currently on the market, and suffers from a number of issues.
  Numerous reviews on Amazon claim that it often suffers from connectivity issues, where the controller refuses to connect wirelessly".
  https://www.the-sun.com/tech/8411660/titan-video-game-controller-titanic-missing/amp/
  Idk if the same trustworthiness applies to the specific controller that was allegedly used
  
  Using a controller is reasonable. Not having redundancy would be insane. This article suggests they hand plenty of redundancy for surfacing.
  
  Using a controller to steer a sub is normal.
  
  Xbox controller is not the problem. The most expensive part of the whole thing is what failed.
- A bunch of super wealthy dudes (including a bloke who went to space with Mr. Amazon and two members of one of Pakistan's biggest petrochemical families) got into an obvious death trap after signing a waiver that said that there's a decent chance that it'd kill them and now that it's gone missing multiple governments are spending millions of dollars on an attempt to rescue them on the off chance that they're actually still alive because the lives of the wealthy matter more than the lives of normal people.
  
  Or maybe it has to do more with the region in which they're lost. The USCG is typically very good about aiding anyone within their AOR, no matter their socioeconomic class. This should be framed more as "why isn't Europe/Greece doing their jobs" than "why are the USCG/Canada actually doing their jobs".

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