• @[email protected]
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    Even in the modern day the ocean seems to devour the hubris stricken.

    No wonder people worshipped it.

  • @[email protected]
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    2324 days ago

    I read in an article he was on the yacht to celebrate being acquitted in a US fraud case. I bet he was innocent…

    • Sabazius
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      Well, he was a billionaire because he sold his successful business to Hewlett-Packard, who then wrecked it and strong-armed a case through the DoJ to claim he’d somehow misconstrued the value of his company, and then he spent 13 months in prison awaiting trial and was acquitted because the judge said HP just fucked it, so if we’re making up theories about who’s the villain in this story about an unexplained sinking… Maybe it’s more complex than a cursory reading of a single news article?

      • @[email protected]
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        Sorry, I’ve been pre conditioned to assuming every billionaire is an asshole and broke multiple laws to hoard unreasonable amounts of wealth (this fucking yacht for example) while actively making or passively watching other people live in poverty.

        Fuck him, his acquittal, his boat and every one of his billionaire friends.

        • @[email protected]
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          Well his 18 years old daughter died onboard that day, much like the kid in the titanic submarine. Only her mother survived. Maybe she was a little rich brat, maybe she would have become a world savior, who knows.

          I’m all for eating the rich, but not before they are at least 45 years old, 18 is just sad.

        • @[email protected]
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          524 days ago

          I think you’re still right though. regardless of the situation with HP, he still created a company that, when sold, made him a billionaire. I don’t think that is possible without also exploiting people.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    1625 days ago

    Storm-sunken. I’d love to know if there was a stupidity factor or if the Bayesian just got unlucky. To be fair, I’d expect a superyacht to be resilient to storms at sea and feature a savvy crew.

  • Zombie-Mantis
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    224 days ago

    I’ll hold off on my celebration until their whole class ceases to exist, abolished and left in the past.