2023.06.22
I liked the presentation of that blog entry, with a particular detail or references for nearly every site on the sidebar.
Justice is what love looks like in public.
It's been interesting seeing the response to the Titanic Sub. A lot of schadenfreude and pointing out of how we seem to be a lot more concerned with these rich folks "own goal" fates than regular people dying by the hundreds in recent disasters. (I think it's understandable - we reflexively tune out widescale suffering and can compartmentalize it as "just the way it is" - and visions of death in a minivan sized sub thousands of feet deep is just so visceral.)
But a counter point I saw on some rightwing media is like "these people are in the tradition of rich people taking risks for the sake of discovery".
My response was:
It's a bummer, and while I don't begrudge the rich some adventure tourism, the "new frontiers" they were exploring were those of deregulation and lax safety and engineering standards.