SkentBrott

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ProunsMe, Myself and I
SkentBrottJun 21, 2023
Gabriele Svelto [moved]Jun 20, 2023

Wherever I look I can see news about a few very rich individuals being stranded on a submarine that was supposed to take them on a tour of the Titanic. The effort put in place to rescue them appears huge in scope.

Last week over six hundred people died in a #shripweck off the coasts of #Greece and nobody cared. Nobody even bothered to start a rescue operation until it was too late.

Stop pretending people are equal, I hate this hypocrisy.

SkentBrottJun 21, 2023
The Duke of Fall Jun 21, 2023

Say it with me, fam:

EpiPens and insulin should be free.

SkentBrottJun 21, 2023
RustyBertrandJun 20, 2023
The Onion: Coast Guard Sends Another Submersible Full Of Billionaires After The First One
https://www.theonion.com/coast-guard-sends-another-submersible-full-of-billionai-1850556819
Coast Guard Sends Another Submersible Full Of Billionaires After The First One

BOSTON, MA—Ramping up search and rescue efforts to locate the missing OceanGate tourist vessel, the U.S. Coast Guard told reporters Tuesday they sent out another submersible full of billionaires after the first one. “We’ve enlisted another team of wealthy explorers to take part in a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to…

The Onion
SkentBrottJun 21, 2023
Abandoned AmericaJun 20, 2023
If I were so obscenely rich I could drop half a million to take a family member on some risky trip to, say, the bottom of the ocean, I'd probably consider dropping a few thousand extra to hire someone to research whether the guy running the trip was a total clown who ignored blatant engineering and safety issues https://newrepublic.com/post/173802/missing-titanic-sub-faced-lawsuit-depths-safely-travel-oceangate
Missing Titanic Sub Once Faced Massive Lawsuit Over Depths It Could Safely Travel To

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

The New Republic
SkentBrottJun 21, 2023
Badtux the Snarky PenguinJun 20, 2023

At the rural school district I last worked at, we had 1500 students, of whom 1,000 were free lunch and 500 were not. The cost of personnel (an entire department!), computers, and software for vetting students to make sure those 500 didn't get free lunch cost more than the cost of simply feeding them, already.

The GOP jihad about preventing those 500 from getting free lunch is not about taxes or expense, it's about being mean to children. #gop #antichild #school #lunch #meanness

Show threadSkentBrottJun 21, 2023
@Popehat
Because it's the Supreme Court (the highest court in the land) in must have oversight regardless of politics.
SkentBrottJun 21, 2023
Widdershins Smith 🐘Jun 20, 2023
If you are okay with having Muslim, Jewish and Hindu students sit through a Christian prayer in public schools, and not okay with having Christian students sit through a Muslim, Jewish or Hindu prayer, then it’s NOT religious freedom - it’s religious oppression.