Last Titanic survivor dies

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  1. Diacanu

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    A vat of scalding hot coffee, on you, and since you can't be made more miserable, I'd just do it to make you look like Toxic Waste Guy from Robobop for the sheer memberberries.
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  2. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    What conspiracy theories would this be?
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  3. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    Somebody really needs to get a hobby.
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  5. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    so what are your thoughts on the 500 migrant refugees whose boat sank in the Mediterranean? Over 300 still missing, it sounds like.

    now, explain the petulance in the quoted observation.

    super rich people did something stupid. would it be funnier if they were poor?
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  6. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    so long as it isn't garage built DSVs claiming to go 10x the depth rating of a Seawolf class sub...
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  7. Steal Your Face

    Steal Your Face Anti-Federalist

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    Neither one of those are conspiracy theories. George Soros does contribute to certain people’s campaigns and Bill Hates is a globalist elite who has no allegiance to the US. Both are true statements. You do not get to set the terms of what is or isn’t a conspiracy theory.
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    BREAKING: debris field found at last known site of sub.

    I'm shocked. Shocked, I say!
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  10. matthunter

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    This would never have happened on Nathan Bridger's watch.
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  11. We Are Borg

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    Or Frederick Fleet's.

    Oh, wait... :unsure:
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    These people did something really dumb so, yeah, I'm going to laugh at their folly. Just like I'd laugh if they were trailer park hillbillies who did some dumb shit and died because of it.
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  13. Diacanu

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  14. Spaceturkey

    Spaceturkey i can see my house

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    If only we had a thrill seeking billionaire with us...


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    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    Apparently one was 19 years old.

    Regardless, we can maybe be better. And not go further down the late night shows / social media route of "everything is fodder for dumb quips."
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  16. matthunter

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    Landing frame and rear cover, according to the BBC. Chances the sub is still intact are pretty low.
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    I can say "You shouldn't have done the dumb thing" and be in no way equivalent to "Hooray, people I am jealous of are dead! Take that!"
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  18. steve2^4

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    This absolutely is stuff for dumb quips.

    As is the titanic. Both resulted from hubris. In this case only 5 died. I feel bad for the Frenchman and the 19 yo son. But not enough to stifle the quips.

    Maybe not the Frenchman, he should have known better. By all accounts this was foretold.
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    I find it amazing they found anything.
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  20. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Isn't that just the Titanic wreckage?
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    Not if it's shiny and new.
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    In shocking news to absolutely nobody, OceanGate just confirmed that everybody who was aboard the submersible is DEAD.
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  23. Diacanu

    Diacanu Comicmike. Writer

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    How to make a UA post template #2.

    "I can (insert robot/Vulcan/Martha Stewart version) and not (insert Looney Tunes strawman)".
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    It's not a strawman when there are fuckeads out and proud with the "Yay dead rich people."
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  26. Diacanu

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    Fun fact: Rich people don't need boot licking blue collar plebes to White Knight for them.
    They've got armies of lawyers, lobby groups, and good old fashioned violent thugs on their team.
    They're going to be okay.
    White Knighting the rich is like throwing yourself in front of a bullet for Superman.
    He doesn't need it, and you just wasted your life.
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  27. steve2^4

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    Debris field includes titanium end caps. The rest is small pieces.

    Wapo non paywalled link

    https://wapo.st/3qX66Y6
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  28. We Are Borg

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  29. Ancalagon

    Ancalagon Scalawag Administrator Formerly Important

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    First off the word you are looking for is envious not jealous.

    Envy is wanting something not yours. Jealousy is being overly possessive over something you consider yours.

    Secondly you can despise someone without being envious.
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  30. The Original Faceman

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    I hope no one was holding their breath for a different outcome.
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