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[–] NegativeInf 70 points 2 months ago (2 children)

The ocean loves the way they taste when compressed to a delicious paste.

[–] baldingpudenda 22 points 2 months ago

All we gotta do is convince the sky to jump in, and these billionaires are gonna have to drive everywhere.

[–] IndiBrony 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's sounds like a lyric from Dethklok 🤘

[–] NegativeInf 5 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago

Even in the modern day the ocean seems to devour the hubris stricken.

No wonder people worshipped it.

[–] riodoro1 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I read in an article he was on the yacht to celebrate being acquitted in a US fraud case. I bet he was innocent…

[–] sabazius 20 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Well, he was a billionaire because he sold his successful business to Hewlett-Packard, who then wrecked it and strong-armed a case through the DoJ to claim he'd somehow misconstrued the value of his company, and then he spent 13 months in prison awaiting trial and was acquitted because the judge said HP just fucked it, so if we're making up theories about who's the villain in this story about an unexplained sinking... Maybe it's more complex than a cursory reading of a single news article?

[–] riodoro1 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Sorry, I’ve been pre conditioned to assuming every billionaire is an asshole and broke multiple laws to hoard unreasonable amounts of wealth (this fucking yacht for example) while actively making or passively watching other people live in poverty.

Fuck him, his acquittal, his boat and every one of his billionaire friends.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Well his 18 years old daughter died onboard that day, much like the kid in the titanic submarine. Only her mother survived. Maybe she was a little rich brat, maybe she would have become a world savior, who knows.

I’m all for eating the rich, but not before they are at least 45 years old, 18 is just sad.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I think you're still right though. regardless of the situation with HP, he still created a company that, when sold, made him a billionaire. I don't think that is possible without also exploiting people.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

Leaving the ocean to clean up all our messes smh

[–] thesporkeffect 17 points 2 months ago

Hail Neptune!

[–] HN82 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I believe that if Jesus really exists he smiles every time a billionaire goes to hell

[–] TotallynotJessica 4 points 2 months ago

"There's no point in seeking vengeance, cause daddy(I) will render judgement onto all!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Storm-sunken. I'd love to know if there was a stupidity factor or if the Bayesian just got unlucky. To be fair, I'd expect a superyacht to be resilient to storms at sea and feature a savvy crew.

[–] Passerby6497 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, I was hoping the orcas got him.

[–] chiliedogg 2 points 2 months ago

They're opening an investigation on the crew.

[–] lemming741 2 points 2 months ago
[–] bfaliszek 12 points 2 months ago

I really like this annual ritual of sacrificing billionaires to the god of the oceans!

[–] Kyrgizion 11 points 2 months ago

1 down, 2700ish to go.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So are we taking bets about who is going to be next?

[–] Viking_Hippie 3 points 2 months ago

Gives a whole new meaning to "Big money, no whammies" 😁

[–] pyre 5 points 2 months ago

thanks again, comrade Poseidon

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Mwah-ha-ha-ha-ha!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Posiden really has it out for these rich dudes huh?

[–] ZombieMantis 2 points 2 months ago

I'll hold off on my celebration until their whole class ceases to exist, abolished and left in the past.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Feel like I’m OOTL here. Which others have we been rid of?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Weren't the guys involved in the submarine story a while back billionaires too?