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Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To (newrepublic.com)

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Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

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[+] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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[–] floofloof 5 points 2 years ago

If they ever find his body they can put "safety just is pure waste" on his headstone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Well oceangate is now toast.

Regardless of whether the people on board are found, they're going to be facing expensive lawsuits from both the billionaires' estates.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

With an attitude like this, what could possibly go wrong?

The ol' All Or Nothing approach!

"At some point, safety just is pure waste."

Cool. Let's have each and every person on the planet draw their own subjective, arbitrary line on what "unnecessary safety" is for oneself AND OTHERS.
So go ahead, FILL your house with asbestos! I mean... it's not like you're going to live forever anyway, amirite!

It's precisely because of idiots like these why we need government watchdogs. He's the one-millionth greedy impatient miser millionaire to try and make a point, yet ended up proving the exact opposite.