I read the front page and have no idea what this is supposed to be, other than some reincarnation of geocities perhaps? There’s some vague and unintelligible rambling about digital soul pods and whatnot; but it seems they want to reinvent the internet… on the internet. At least thats what I make of it.

I mean, the CO scrubber was an Ikea plastic box with a CPU fan hooked to it. Literally.

Just absolutely mindboggling.

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

The Titan submersible incident comes to mind. ESPECIALLY after viewing the released coastguard hearings.

Can Elon, Jeff, Mark, Bill and that Virgin Atlantic weirdo please quickly hop on the next Starship rocket and fly to that planet to check it out? Just a quick there-and-back? Have a looksy? Go on, you know, for mankind, be an(sic) hero…

The book is objectively trash. I didn’t even finish it. The story is trash. The writing is trash. The characters are forgettable. Its just a bad, bad book.

Marvel movies. Yes all of them. They’re trash. It’s just cgi slop, badly written one-dimensional characters, cliché tropes, formulaic stories, plotholes bigger than meteorcraters and brainless action sequences. A cashgrab.

A saw a couple; I gave them a fair chance. They’re all the same. The appeal is beyond me. Brainrot at its finest.