{"id":10271,"date":"2023-06-21T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/?p=10271"},"modified":"2023-06-21T14:35:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T19:35:57","slug":"a-titanic-blunder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/2023\/06\/21\/a-titanic-blunder\/","title":{"rendered":"A Titanic blunder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nTo be blunt, I hold the people wanting to take a submarine to the wreck of the <cite>Titanic<\/cite> in the same contempt as I hold those wanting to climb Everest: wreckless irresponsible thrill seekers whose hubris causes others to suffer from it. Die doing either, you&#8217;re neither hero nor victim, just another fool taking unnecessary risks to pretend to be anything other than yet another tourist.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThat said, if I was a billionaire and I was so egocentric and vain as to want to visit the <cite>Titanic<\/cite>, I still would not pay 250,000 dollars to be strapped in a short metal dildo only openable from the outside and steered over bluetooth by a dodgy Logitech fake X-box controller. Spent a quarter of a million bucks to die in something I couldn&#8217;t stretch my legs out in, having my last piss be in a bucket shared with four other billionaires, you wouldn&#8217;t catch me doing that.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIf you still believed in the myth of the hypercompetent self made billionaire this surely drives the nail in it. That much money and you don&#8217;t have the sense to demand your submersible is built from better stuff than can be found off the selves at Target?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be blunt, I hold the people wanting to take a submarine to the wreck of the Titanic in the same contempt as I hold those wanting to climb Everest: wreckless irresponsible thrill seekers whose hubris causes others to suffer from it. Die doing either, you&#8217;re neither hero nor victim, just another fool taking unnecessary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10272,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10271\/revisions\/10272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/wissewords2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}