I wouldn’t be surprised. But, I suspect there’s also a factor of just implausibility. Apparently, the main vessel they use is “experimental”, so it may just literally be impossible to have a recovery vessel without being a literal government.

My money’s on this being the result of someone ignoring the “hey, these are not good conditions” warnings.

One of the other posts in the feed makes it sound like they only do it a handful of times a year, and that cost is covering a multi-day excursion since they have to wait for conditions to be right. Still, no excuse to not have contingencies, but I think their take gets eaten into a fair bit more than the raw math would suggest.

So, in the live feed the BBC has going, there’s a post suggesting that a group of “explorers” were apparently on board based on one of them’s Facebook feed, so it’s safe to say they probably had the full passenger set on there.

BBC’s also got a live feed going for this.

Apparently, the sub’s supposed to have a suite of systems to more or less warn the pilot if things are looking dicey, so hopefully this is a communications problem and not something worse.

Because if you let women have authority, people might start believing things like “men are not automatically good without needing to actually do good things” and “authority isn’t instantly derived from the circumstances of your birth but instead based on your merits as a leader”.

I mean, I know why I haven’t yet in spite of also having played the game since beta.

… It’s because I’m lazy and hate grinding for materials.

True Pacifist Undertale just the other day. Which, to be fair, took me something like two years to get around to doing because I was way too lazy to deal with some of the ending fights of Neutral route.

Now I have the itch to go back and play EarthBound again… Which may be related to the lo-fi Mother 2 mix that got posted earlier today over in the Music community.

I’m still tickled hours later at how eager folks were to figure that out. :D

Oh, yeah. I realize that there’s a lot of nuance at play. It’s just that I’m a historian who grew up in the Deep South, so I’m well aware that whatever other excuses and loopholes are used, it’s ultimately all about trying to reinstate segregation by another name. Because it always is.

Roberts’ opinion brought a strongly worded dissent from conservative Justice Clarence Thomas, who accused the majority — including his colleague Brett M. Kavanaugh — of creating a “consciously segregated districting system” in the name of the Voting Rights Act.

I really want to know what he thinks the current system is if it’s not that.

Exactly. Or even just a “They didn’t nab me, so I must be important enough to protect” for the ones who are deep in the paint.

Unfortunately, they’re capable and willing to make their own safe spaces for themselves

I mean, the lovely thing about them doing that is that it then becomes increasingly easy to identify and communicate which places are cesspools to be avoided and also to mitigate access when possible. Quarantining isn’t really an option when everyone’s on one big website, but it’s a lot easier when folks are running their own boards and building their own communities.

I’m sure there’s at least gonna be a couple of eyes looking out for that because they are exactly the kind of people who’d show up to this expecting no one’ll arrest them.

I am pleased for my role in performing science today. :D

All the satisfaction of downvoting someone for being wrong, but none of the knock-on social effects, eh?

That’s what seems to be the case. So, it’s looking like it’s basically a placebo button for y’all. :P

I’m seeing a 1 on my end, so either things are lagging out for different users and I’m about to see a massive chunk hit…

Or it’s all localized. :P

I’m still seeing a 1 here. So, I think the downvote is literally just a placebo for you. :P

I mean, does it seem to change the vote numbers when you do it? Like, try downvoting my reply and we’ll see if it results in us both seeing a 0. :P

I think you’re underestimating Picard. Like, not only was the man a wild punk in his youth before Starfleet straightened him out, but it’s shown throughout the series that he’s more than capable of bluffing opponents with access to things like literal time travel.

If nothing else, if he fights Luke, he’s not going to fight on Luke’s terms if he can help it.