Fuck billionaires. The sea seems to like the taste. Follow it’s example. Eat the rich.
“Yacht maker who makes yachts for billionaires scrambles to blame the crew so he can save more yachts and not be sued”
That’s the story here. He’s trying to set the narrative as entirely human error rather than a design flaw. For example one concern is how quickly an intact vessel sank - 30 seconds is being claimed in some areas - and the yacht may have an overlong aluminium mast which contributed to it capsizing .
People saying they don’t care about billionaires dying are missing the point. The yachts maker is trying to pin it on the crew before its even been properly investigated.
“The boat suffered a series of indescribable, unreasonable errors, the impossible happened on that boat … but it went down because it took on water.” […] The CEO ruled out any design or construction errors, which he called unlikely after 16 years of trouble-free navigation.
This sounds like an out-take from the “front fell off” skit.
This is a clear warning to anyone who thinks about delving into Bayesian statistics, imo.
This is a clear warning to anyone who thinks about delving into Bayesian statistics, imo.
The sheer fucking smug hubris of naming a boat that, and presumably conjuring up bullshit probability statistics for why they’re too smart to follow best-practice safety procedures.
The ocean scares me, that’s the shark’s house
There’s pee in there…
Can attest, did pee in it.
Ah yes, the strategy of “ignoring well publicized storm reports” and “not taking a single well-established precaution such as lowering the rudder for stability and closing windows and doors”
Bayesianism is more powerful than any of that old thinking. The dead should just adjust their priors in the next reality over where their quantum immortality continues.
Had correct procedures been followed
The ruling class has no use for such things. They are adult children floating on clouds of unassailable privilege… until they aren’t.
Let me describe in detail all the ways I give a fuck about the deaths of rich people. 1)
Then care that those who get rich selling toys to billionaires try to blame it on the small people, the crew who I guess wasn’t rich at all. The crew died as well and now their families have to deal with the yacht maker dragging them through the mud.
Care about the crew.
Who built Thebes of the seven gates?
In the books you will find the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished
Who raised it up so many times? In what houses
of gold-glittering Lima did the builders live?
Where, the evening that the Wall of China was finished
Did the masons go? Great Rome
Is full of triumphal arches. Who erected them? Over whom
Did the Caesars triumph? Had Byzantium, much praised in song
Only palaces for its inhabitans? Even in fabled Atlantis
The night the ocean engulfed it
The drowning still bawled for their slaves.The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar beat the Gauls.
Did he not have even a cook with him?Philip of Spain wept when his armada
Went down. Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the Second won the Seven Year’s War. Who Else won it?Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every ten years a great man?
Who paid the bill?So many reports.
So many questions.– Bertold Brecht, Questions from a worker who reads
Absolutely valid. Thank you.
We need to send all billionares to yatchs and submarines so they can appreciate the abyssal depths
I’m glad at least the whales are making progress on eating the rich. I look forward to the next billionaire accident
Where’s the rest of the story
Basically the story is that the CEO of the company that built it, before the investigation has been done, blames the crew. It couldn’t have been a structural or design failure, again, according to the CEO of the builder. This is an interesting case, maybe it will be on What’s Going on With Shipping one of these days.
Felon oligarch too, feels like karma. Though not for the others on that boat.
