The Titan submersible incident comes to mind. ESPECIALLY after viewing the released coastguard hearings.
I missed the coast guard hearing details. What came out?
Oh it was super interesting! Stories from experts strongly advising against design decisions but being ignored, colleagues and industry officials raising concerns, the utter failure of OSHA in protecting the wistleblowers, multiple red flags being ignored, the batshit insane list of failures during previous dives being ignored, the lack of safety culture, administrative office crew doubling as safety inspectors/dive operators/engineers while having no qualifications whatsoever for that job, the absolute lack of free speech to voice concerns/toxic positivity that was expected from everyone/repercussions against people that did try to speak up, the pressure put on potential mission specialists to continue their trip if they tried to back out, the extremely dubious "mission specialist" term used to describe passengers just to get out of insurance and liability, the long, long list of questionable design choices made by someone who had no proper experience, the cost cutting mentality, the "meh its good enough" mentality,...
The list goes on and on and on. Those hearings are worth watching with popcorn. I was hooked and watched them all, but of you have to pick some, choose those from david lochridge, tony nissen, renata rojas, karl stanley, bart kemper and bonnie carl.
The most entertaining part is the board asking seemingly 'stupid' or gullible questions and having the pro-oceangate witnesses digging their own grave trying to spin the answer in a positive light; while everybody already knows the real answer.
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgOje37c-b1NswzbM8kMEGRrdup_xwlW9
https://www.news.uscg.mil/News-by-Region/Headquarters/Titan-Submersible/
An absolute shit ton. I haven't had the chance to look at all of it, so someone else will have to give a TL;DR/DW
TL;DW it's entitled rich a-hole who is used to money getting him what he wants, doesn't understand money cannot buy intelligence, reason, and/or empathy. A critical lack of all 3 causes a severe case of "Human Paste-itis" on the ocean floor
I have this pet theory about how people who learn that their privilege lets them bend or ignore human laws subconsciously believe that they can bend or ignore any law. So I always enjoy it when rich assholes buy super-cars and wrap them around trees, a surprisingly common occurrence, because the laws of physics aren't impressed by your financial portfolio.
The Titanic submarine
hilariously the only things that made it fail were 1) the material they chose 2) producing that material the cheap way and 3) not testing if it was broken after test dives.
Elon did that with a McLaren, and Peter Thiel as a passenger.
Good. That poor McLaren shouldn’t have to be driven by Elon Musk.
Some hospital royalty's grandparent needed ECT for their treatment resistant depression. Said royalty fought tooth and nail to let gamgam get her very first set of induced controlled seizures under surgical level anaesthesia done outpatient. The ECT doc said fuck no (you can do them outpatient, but you always do the first set inpatient case shit goes pear shaped). They then tried to get gamgam to spend her time in the fancy hospital rooms (yes that's a thing) instead of on the psych unit with us crazies. The ECT doc said no. This was also right after admin got mad at us for throwing out a piss soaked mattress. Don't want granny sleeping on somebody else's piss? Nobody should be sleeping on somebody else's piss. DEAL WITH IT you bourgeoisie bastards.
Gods, I remember interviewing to be a floor tech at Doctor's Medical Center in Modesto when they first got their bourgeoise floor. It still upsets me to think about it 12 years later. Healthcare is healthcare, there shouldn't be a damn luxury floor, and especially not while other people are getting bankrupted with bills where the numbers are basically snatched out of thin air anyway.
They were being generous! The poors may have the mattress now that it's soaked in piss.
At a concert and saw the police approach and start questioning a young drunk guy (out doors, before show started). They basically said he had to leave on account of being too intoxicated and he started getting mouthy. I've never seen the police react so quickly the moment he finished saying, "My dad is a top class expensive lawyers and he'll have your asrses for this" - he was in the ground and handcuffed within seconds. In the next few seconds he was back on his feet and being escorted to the paddy wagon.
Honestly I think it's terrible that we think it's perfectly normal and okay for cops to physically force someone to the ground with no mention of resistance.
"Keep your hands where I can see them and I'm going to cuff you while I search your pockets."
"Please get in the back of the car" while lightly holding the inside of someone's elbow should be all that is needed after checking their person for any weapons.
We took a trip to Chicago and decided to go to Navy Pier. Traffic was basically gridlocked and the car behind us was not happy that my friend didn't break the law and block an intersection. After the light turned green, the idiot took his massive, shiny, brand new, white pickup truck onto the SIDEWALK to cut in front of us.
When we got to the parking garage, there was a HUGE sign saying the clearance was 6ft 3in and tall vehicles needed to go to a different garage. The idiot didn't read it and, even with the windows shut, we heard the screeching and scraping of his roof on the top of the structure.
The best part was watching him back out, hearing more scraping, seeing his surprised pikachu face, and the disappointment on the face of the woman in the passenger seat.
Gamestop stock boom
But the rich won that one and then enforced regulations to ensure that it couldn't happen again?
Perhaps, but it exposed some companies, namely Robinhood, as chumps for doing just that. And those that won big by sitting on Gamestop so the other chump couldn't buy it out chose philanthropy, which is a minor victory in the long run
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