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Ok. That's it, the hair is getting chopped off this weekend
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On the subject of the Titanic ‘submersible’ that was lost in the deep with all its wealthy tourists— it’s so insane/eerie in hindsight to read this article from the Smithsonian that interviews the CEO Stockton Rush long before the disaster.
Despite the Smithsonian supposedly being an organization that cares about science and truth, and the fact that there were SO MANY obvious red flags from the beginning and so many people criticizing the company…..the article is a puff piece uncritically glorifying the CEO’s obviously terrible submersible project. It compares him in glowing terms to Elon Musk. It is an article about how private ventures like those of Stockton Rush and Elon Musk can and should be the future of the world.
We’ve obviously learned now that there were whistleblowers at the company who were warning for a long time that Stockton Rush’s submersible was unsafe— only to be fired and then sued. It makes sense the submersible was so unsafe, because the CEO in this interview is open about how he has no background in underwater engineering and is annoyed by quote “regulations that needlessly prioritize passenger safety.”
Soon after, the private [submersible] market died too, Rush found, for two reasons that were “understandable but illogical.” First, subs gained a reputation for danger. Working on offshore rigs in harsh locations like the North Sea, saturation divers, who breathe gas mixtures to avoid diving sicknesses, would be taken in subs to work at great depths. It was the world’s most perilous job, with frequent fatalities. (“It wasn’t the sub’s fault,” says Rush.) To save lives, the industries moved toward using underwater robots to perform the same work.
Second, tourist subs, which could once be skippered by anyone with a U.S. Coast Guard captain’s license, were regulated by the Passenger Vessel Safety Act of 1993, which imposed rigorous new manufacturing and inspection requirements and prohibited dives below 150 feet. The law was well-meaning, Rush says, but he believes it needlessly prioritized passenger safety over commercial innovation (a position a less adventurous submariner might find open to debate). “There hasn’t been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years. It’s obscenely safe, because they have all these regulations. But it also hasn’t innovated or grown—because they have all these regulations.”
The fact that Stockton Rush (who was piloting the submarine when the disaster happened) is on record complaining about the evils of regulations that prioritize people’s safety, and the Smithsonian uncritically regurgitated that rhetoric in their glowing puff piece about how rich tycoons like Elon Musk and Stockton Rush are going to save the world is just…..in hindsight of how everything ended it’s just so much horrible black comedy? It’s like a satire about the dangers of uncritically worshipping the rich.
It is mentioned in the article that Rush chose to make his submersible in a different shape, and with a different (cheaper) material than is usually used for submersibles. The article frames this as a result of daring innovation, and not of negligence/ignorance. This passage in particular, which in context is supposed to portray Rush’s critics as joyless naysayers who were proven wrong by the noble tycoon, is pretty foreboding in hindsight:
Rush planned to pilot the sub himself, which critics said was an unnecessary risk: Under pressure, the experimental carbon fiber hull might, in the jargon of the sub world, “collapse catastrophically.”
And then!!
The exact problem that happened to Titan this weekend, happened on Titan’s very first test voyage to the Titanic! The experimental carbon fiber hull had an issue and it caused communications to break down!
The dive was going according to plan until about 10,000 feet, when the descent unexpectedly halted, possibly, Rush says, because the density of the salt water added extra buoyancy to the carbon fiber hull. He now used thrusters to drive Titan deeper, which interfered with the communications system, and he lost contact with the support crew. He recalls the next hour in hallucinogenic terms. “It was like being on the Starship Enterprise,” he says. “There were these particles going by, like stars. Every so often a jellyfish would go whipping by. It was the childhood dream.”
Both Rush and the article writer treat this as a fun quirky story, instead of a serious safety failure and red flag with his experimental macgyvered regulation-flaunting submersible.
Other highlights from the article include:
Stockton rush saying that if 3/4 of the planet is water, why haven’t we monetized it?
Stockton saying we will “colonize the ocean long before we colonize space”
Lots of weird pro colonialism stuff in general??? This article loves colonialism and thinks it’s cool
Rush saying he plans for this to eventually help find more underwater resources for the US to exploit and profit from
Elon musk comparisons. The article writer does not mention that Elon Musk’s rockets explode and therefore it would be a bad idea to get in one of them, because that would imply it’s a bad idea to get into the submersible
Stockton rush seeing himself as Captain Kirk
The article writer comparing the tourists who plan to join Rush to Englishmen who went on colonialist journeys to Africa as if that’s like, a good thing. So much pro colonialism stuff in this article
So many sentences about Stockton Rush being handsome when he literally just looks like some guy
The article beginning with an editor’s note from years later disclaiming that the extraordinary submersible they’re advertising in this article is uh. It’s now uhhhh
But yeah it really does just bring home how so many organizations that supposedly care about scientific truth or journalistic integrity are willing to uncritically platform propaganda for wealthy CEOS. It’s frustrating how easily people fall for the fake myths that careless wealthy people invent for themselves, and even more frustrating that supposedly respectable institutions will platform irresponsible lies that end up getting people killed.
Rush is such an obvious and simple example of this, and his negligence is “only” killing five people including himself. But to me it feels like a cautionary tale to bear in mind when it comes to uncritical puff piece media coverage of similar “daring tycoon innovations” by people like Bezos or Musk.
#titanic#oceangate#titanic submersible#sorry this is just so fascinating to me#it’s like a parody or piece of satire#if it were in a novel it would feel like the symbolism was too obvious and on the nose
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the world is full of beauty that can’t be captured in photos or picture books!
#i long to see your bright smiling face...#as you experience such wonders for yourself!#one piece#egghead#jewelry bonney#bartholomew kuma#op bonney#op kuma#BAWLING MY EYES OUT#SNOT GUSHING OUT OF MY NOSE#I LOVE DAD/PINK DAUGHTER DUOs#this goofy shonen manga keeps emotionally affecting me#why does this keep happening to me
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Zoro turned out to be surprisingly easy to manipulate
This man will do anything to prove he can be the world greatest swordsman
#I bet his nose itches but he's convinced he's not allowed to move at all#poor guy#wait till they figure out they can force him to do any chores like this#one piece#roronoa zoro#zoro#usopp
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#one piece#monkey d. luffy#luffy#ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ#nami#usopp#cat burglar nami#god usopp#Long Nose Usopp#one piece movie 1
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One Piece title cards — season 1
#oplaedit#one piece#one piece live action#one piece netflix#my gifs#see we did get usopp's nose and sanji's curly brow#1k
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Another secret santa gift 🎁
#my art#one piece#monkey d. luffy#black leg sanji#vinsmoke sanji#roronoa zoro#sea king#everyone who draws sanji w a nose bump i love you i love you i lo#pinterest poses save me
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Human! Buggy: (Sees Buggypillar and thinks he’s the most adorable thing ever)
Buggypillar: (Sees Human Buggy and thinks he’s the ugliest creature alive)
Intense staring
#words#one piece#op animal au#buggy the clown#bug#little guy could count all pores on buggy's nose from that angle#love the clown in any shape or form
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“STOP TRYING TO FUCK THAT CLOWN”
WELL HOW ABOUT YOU MAKE ME🙄🙄
#buggy one piece#buggy#buggy the clown#one piece#buggy smut#buggy the genius jester#buggy is my man#fine ass clown#why is this mf so fine????#he’s literally a clown#with a fat nose#lowk love big noses tho🤭#MY MAN#smash#clown#buggy babbles#buggy x reader#one piece live action#one piece show
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I haven't made new Pokemon merch in a while, so I designed some multidimensional pins using the gen 2 palette! These might look a lil strange rn, but think they'll look much better once they're printed on wood. :)
#Lapras' nose touching the edge is driving me bonkers but she's on the top layer - it'll look fine when assembled! (i hope lol)#might also add a touch of glitter to Celebi when the pin pieces arrive#pokemon#johto#pokemon crystal#totodile#celebi#gyarados#my art
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#one piece#black leg sanji#sanji#zosan#lusan#zosanlu#my beloved#for someone whos fav is not sanji i sure do only draw sanji#he means a lot to me#me and him the same#op#my art#op fanart#one piece fanart#fanart#didnt draw his nose big enough imo
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Ok but imagine Zoro gets turned into a woman. It’s the grand line anything can happen, so Zoro eats the wrong fruit, or pisses of a witch and boom lady-Zoro; complete ranma 1/2 hijinks ensue.
Of course Zoro doesn’t care all that much, he’s still gonna be the greatest swordsman to ever live, and he still can’t figure out how to properly close a shirt, no pair of boobs is going to change that. Meanwhile sanji is having 13 existential crises all at once.
We have the most homophobic gay man to sail the seas, having to deal with the unstoppable force (a pathological need to fight the Marimo) meeting the immovable object (love and respect for all woman). Honest to God it may actually kill him.
Like Sanji is discovering new parts of himself everytime he sees Zoro lift weights, and Zoro is using this to get unrestricted access to the sake.
#ranma 1/2#zosan#one piece#not a want but a need#trans zoro#nami offers Zoro 10% of the belli he owes if he wears a nice dress#and sanji just stares as a river of blood flows from his nose#if this doesn’t exist then I will make it#zoro#sanji#1/2 piece
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remember what they took from us
#I MISS YOU GREASY STONER ACE#i miss when he was high and hadn't showered in months#i want to kiss him#his nose i miss his nose#this is so unfair#one piece#portgas d. ace#alabasta ace i will forever miss you
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More doodles for the one piece spy x family crossover
#one piece#spy x family crossover#revolutionary sabo#portgas d ace#monkey d luffy#still debating on a spy codename for Sabo. since WISE seems to enjoy times of day I want it to have something to do with dawn or dusk#but that might be a bit on the nose#sabo’s walking stick is like his replacement for his pipe. blunt bludgeoning weapon that he can carry around in broad daylight#ace as an assassin decides his disguise is just going to be. being shirtless#plus those silly sunglasses but the main thing is the shirtless mess#because if he can’t be shirtless during the day in society then he might as well be shirtless when he’s out being a badass#the three of them are dumbasses (affectionate)#the only reason luffy looks as put together as he does is because sabo helped him pick the outfit and it’s extremely comfortable#mostly to help luffy get jobs. luffy does whatever job he feels like doing every day!#some days he’s a waiter some days he’s a gardener some days he’s a cashier#when Lois eventually gets over his paranoia over luffy popping up everywhere and finds out luffy is sabo’s brother he starts#paying luffy to babysit Anya. which of course means sabo is babysitting the both of them because trusting luffy to watch a child is maybe#not the best idea.
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*Shyly offers a small but sparkly piece of Lux* Would this be enough for a sketch of Yozora or the Nameless Star, from Verum Rex? I'm so curious about who they are and what what roles they will play in KH 4!
Nameless Star.. Now that's a juicy ask~ It's quite obvious she's leaning toward what Stella Nox Fleuret was going to be, as well as Yozora being what Noctis was supposed to be in FFXIII Versus.. It's going to be interesting seeing how they melt into KH~
#ask#answer#kh#kingdom hearts#verum rex#nameless star#sora#kh verum rex#quadratum#stuffing piece of lux up my nose as we speak#my ramblings
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misc heart pirates/domestic lovebug doodles (friend of frankenstein @friendlyfrankenstein made the joke in image 7)
#one piece#heart pirates#lovebug#corazon/buggy#bepo is law's awesome little brother.#trafalgar d law#corazon rosinante#buggy the clown#shachi and penguin are the neighborhood shitkids who law befriended via breaking their fucking noses
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