Sanjay MathewJun 29, 2023
Resuna

"I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people." -- https://cohost.org/hystericempress/post/1731218-reflecting-on-it-th @hystericempress

Posted because I kept seeing this quote posted with the names filed off, so I did a quick google search to find the original so I could share it with full attribution.

I'm getting super-spammed with retoots and faves, so I don't need any more.

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Reflecting on it, the reason I think the OceanGate situation has become such a flashpoint for anger is because it's such a perfect microcosm of the problem with everything right now. Decisions are not made based on safety, reasonable caution, or concern for human life. Every decision is instead made from a default assumption of 'what if the bad thing just DIDN'T happen?' We are given pie-in-the-sky promises and sizzle reels and an endless PR hype-cycle for every new innovation and inevitably it fails to work, harms people, and then is maybe barely apologized for before the next bad idea comes down the pike. OceanGate's underengineered, undercooked, doomed submarine isn't merely a metaphor for the hubris of the wealthy, it is a scale model of the way the wealthy dictate our reality. All consequences can be ignored, all blowback can be forestalled, let the end-user eat the cost. I am not angry because the submarine was badly-made. I am angry because I live in a vastly larger pressure vessel being managed and maintained by the exact same people.

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Show threadKapitän ClownfeuerJun 28, 2023
@resuna this is spot-on, unfortunately :(
Show threadVictor QueredaJun 28, 2023
@rasur @resuna too many people being angry for the same thing and still doing nothing. It's ok to blame the few people in power for the destruction of the world, this is a reality. It is the inaction of the rest that keeps allowing it, though.
Show threadKapitän ClownfeuerJun 28, 2023
@vquereda @resuna you are also correct on this point.
Show threadouinneJun 28, 2023
@resuna i want to see it this on a crossstitch.
Show threadAral BalkanJun 28, 2023
@resuna This is so spot on.
Show threadAral BalkanJun 28, 2023
@resuna (The link has the full text shown in the screenshot.)
Show threadResunaJun 28, 2023
@aral Also in the alt text, or should be.
Show threadGarrett LatimerJun 28, 2023
@resuna I’m worried about how this attitude is spreading through the engineering profession too.
Show threadCarrieJun 28, 2023
@KronoGarrett @resuna Seaside and Davenport come to mind.
Show threadGarrett LatimerJun 28, 2023
@WeShall @resuna The thought of various life-critical infrastructure systems designed and built as if they were a dodgy mobile app that only had to work well enough to hoodwink VC investors keeps me awake at night.
Show threadResunaJun 28, 2023
@KronoGarrett @WeShall Welcome to Libertopia.
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisJun 29, 2023

@KronoGarrett

Oh, hey, I was just in another thread talking about medicine, and, uh. 🙃

@WeShall @resuna

Show threadCarrieJun 29, 2023
@siderea @KronoGarrett @resuna Yes! The issue with medications being made by the lowest bidder should have us all worried. Did you hear about that eye drop recall? Horrifying stuff.
Show threadTim LavoieJul 1, 2023
@KronoGarrett @WeShall @resuna “Built _with_ a dodgy mobile app that only had to work well enough to hoodwink VC investors” is already common enough. How much expensive crap already fails suddenly when those companies get bored, and shut off the critical server the dodgy app needs to function?
Show threadJohnWJun 28, 2023
@resuna I had these exact thoughts a few days ago.
Show threadsynlogicJun 28, 2023

@resuna I have similar views

I write about it a little here, somewhat:

https://synystron.substack.com/p/climate-apocalypse-inboundemergency

but its a major theme of my game Slartboz. democracy and climate dangers and anti-patterns are the focus. has a whole set of observations and lessons around the effective Utter Madness Shitshow that is the real world 2023 in general. and the US in particular

imo

Climate Apocalypse Inbound/Emergency -- Why Invest Resources on "Better AI" & Ads?

The recent hype/uptake in AI, especially around ChatGPT/LLMs and so-called "generative AI" tools has been kind of the final straw for me in thinking that the supposedly "smartest folks" in our figurative Silicon Valley are truly that. Why? My best understanding and prediction of humanity's approaching likely-future (and within our own remaining lifetimes — and unless we can veer away enough, in time) is one dominated by the unbounded-so-far carbon emissions crisis. Of climate shifts which cause more frequent extreme weather. Agricultural yield drops, world-wide. More resource scarcity and conflict in general. Climate refugees in mass waves. And possibly more war and democratic decay (or outright collapse) as a terrible bonus on top.

Synystron Synlogica
Show thread💡𝚂𝗆𝖺𝗋𝗍𝗆𝖺𝗇 𝙰𝗉𝗉𝗌📱Jun 28, 2023
@resuna
CC @rbreich
Show threadDiamond JoyJun 28, 2023
@resuna Excellent point and true.
Show threadI am Jack's Lost 404Jun 29, 2023
@resuna
Show threadSiderea, Sibylla BostoniensisJun 29, 2023
@resuna I didn't expect anybody was ever gonna say anything to make me sympathetic to the widespread fascination with OceanGateGate, but I stand corrected. Thanks for posting this.
Show threadSanneJun 29, 2023
@resuna
Found the author also at Mastodon.
Thanks to @hystericempress for this insight.
Show threadResunaJun 29, 2023
@idealistik @hystericempress Thanks, added to original.
Show threadSanneJun 29, 2023
@resuna 💛
Show threadParanoid FactoidJun 29, 2023
@resuna This comment by @hystericempress is very insightful. It encapsulates a difficult to see repetition across social domains.
Show thread Why Not Zoidberg? 🦑Jun 29, 2023
@resuna Nail, meet head.
Show threadrrogersJun 29, 2023
@resuna @hystericempress
#CamelCase
Not exactly the way I would have stated things. But this is well written and to the point! :)
Show threadDavidJun 29, 2023
@resuna @hystericempress “Move fast and break things” is kinda dumb when you might kill people
Show threadAradia, EverScarletJun 30, 2023
@resuna Hey, please credit @hystericempress for this and send her cash.
Show threadResunaJun 30, 2023
@Aradia @hystericempress I posted this because I kept seeing it showing up with all names filed off, and wanted to point people back to the original.
Show threadResunaJun 30, 2023
@Aradia @hystericempress I don't know what credit you are suggesting I'm withholding.