You know. You’re missing the point?

Your methods do not work. You know that. You can see the results.

All people are going to remember from your interactions is that you were a preachy jerk.

And it’s yet another interaction that reinforces the image that all vegans are preachy jerks- even if it is far from the truth.

You are literally hurting your cause.

had me giggling in the first half, since I knew where it was going. Had me snorting by the end.

Grand Old Pricks

It really is basic engineering.

Like.

Probably not even 101. We’re talking about material selection…. And the properties aren’t exactly unknown and the necessary capabilities aren’t unknown.

The only think that was really unknown is how many dived it had. (CF can be fickle. It’s almost certain there were Minor defects. That’s just something you engineer around, sure, but you never know how close those defects are to becoming not-minor, and it really doesn’t take much. A single micro crack in the wrong place and… well, it probably happened fast enough that they didn’t even know.)

You, know that you’re supposed to replace the frame if you crash because of similar issues (specifically delaminating being hard to identify without destructive testing )

Just saying.

Though I do believe it’s never imploded….hehe.

Can we get that truck a medal?

That’s the problem with the carbon fiber.

Composites like that have a limited lifespan, and they’re very hard to model- there’s a lot of assumptions going into the modeling like “the fibers are all laid perfectly” and “the resin-to-fiber ratio is perfect” and similar. It’s also super hard to check for defects.

Normally, a lot of this is worked around by increasing the amount of CFC to provide a margin if error.

The problem is that you eat up that margin of error as defects expand under the cyclic stress of going down and coming back up.

Worse, they were not inspecting the pressure hull in a way that could detect the nano- and -micro-cracks so they could tell when it was time to take it out of service.

(That kind of inspection is ridiculously expensive. Like. Yeah.)

Well.

Normally this is avoided by using (very expensive) materials like titanium alloys that are “strong” enough to not fatigue after a few trips. (Strong isn’t quite the right word.

Or extremely expensive (to make) acrylic (PMMA,). It’s expensive to make because of some extremely exacting tolerances.

Incidentally, one of the reasons acrylic is used a lot is its transparency makes it super easy to see defects like cracks. (Literally you can see them with no special equipment.)

In any case while CF isn’t exactly cheap, it was less expensive than a titanium hull, or the acrylic bubble hull you see on the Triton subs; but the whole inspection thing got nixed because of greed.

Fun fact; the only reason this hearing is happening is because two of the passengers were rich. Normal people don’t get this dog and pony show.

Other fun fact: they signed liability waivers. Which makes this a very fun dog and pony show.

but he hasn’t even fucked a couch!

Or so he insists. One doth protest too much, methinks.

Greed. not “explorer passion”.

The risks weren’t unknown. People have been building submersibles capable of reaching that depth for quite some time, most of the people involved are very willing to share their lessons learned and give feedback. They were consulting with NASA and Boeing, both dropped it (I suspect because of a distinct unwillingness to heed their advice and warnings.).

OceanGate willfully ignored the risks, and the warnings, cut corners and found out. unfortunately four others found out, too. Though I only really feel bad for the kid.

he’s just trying to get called something other than couchfucker.

unforntunately, couchfucker sticks harder than goatfucker.

“Mirrors”.

They wrote it for him. It is theirs.

Prolly lost more votes for getting outed as a porn addict rather than being a nazi.

Because they want to help the fascist.

Something about ten dudes at a diner table with an eleventh who is a nazi.

Walz would be way more subtle than that.

hey. So glad you got off the damn couch.

And

Oh. Meant to ask you. How was the tour of Ashley Furniture? Find any attractive couches?

Edit:

didja get any good recipes from RFK?

*CBS is announcing that it will allow the Couchfucker to Gish Gallop.

Fixed that title for you.

Most farmers are big business. Gone are the days of mom and pop farmers working a small plot. They all got bought out for retirement generations ago.

Is it’s all corporate “farmers” that are your “rich people”.

Here’s to more GOP losses every year.

The Grand Old Pricks need to be voted out.

It at least half will complain about the couch porn to Mike… or at least to the chat bit…

So it’s meant to annoy Mike even more.

And as far as I’m concerned… he can’t be punished enough.

These companies are total bullshit.

“We’re not taxis. We’re rideshare matching.”

“they’re not employees. they’re… independent contractors…”

So part of it was that he’s being charged with improper storage, rather than actually taking them.

And he was storing them in Florida.

As bad as Cannon has been, I don’t know that any of the other justices are any better. Mostly, they’ve let her slide on a lot of shit.