In the news

The FT has some yacht-sinking weather factoids https://www.ft.com/content/1db169f0-8040-4150-900e-68c9b0174b8d Apparently the sea is hotter than ever. "Last Thursday, the Mediterranean reached a median temperature of 28.9C — its highest surface temperature on record". This makes for more severe summer storms, like this one six days ago on Formentera, which trashed lots of boats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6cF7h554d8&t=65s

just found one in my shower room and accidentally drowned it in the missed piss, giant spider crabs maybe have some expensive 🫰 tea last night possibly

What is even that

2 news days of these deaths and the yacht sinking.

The news media do really love it when rich people die right?

Hundreds/thousands still dying in Ukraine and Gaza, but that's no longer news worthy I guess.

11 billion dollars is alot of money and they both was from Cambridge so yah infinitely more important thanks a few Slavic or uncivilised tribals in Churchillian parlance. Don't leave your windows open the mating spiders might get in!

The news media do really love it when rich people die

They only love it by proxy. It's the readers who love it. Schadenfreude makes you feel good. But imagining life in Gaza doesn't.

Yeah, the news media love clicks. They'll give the people what they want. Same as the fascination of the Titan sub, people were all over that

What's the thing? Ocham's Razor

Very possibly you mean Hanlon's Razor.

Very possibly you mean Hanlon's Razor.

Surely you mean the Razor Crest?

"Never attribute to - aw, Grogu did something cute!" ?

Titan sub

There were a lot of attention-catching elements to that one. A billionaire, and his reluctant but cooperative heir, paying hundreds of thousands to a firebrand millionaire for a ride to see The Titanic in an recklessly perilous experimental vessel, only to go suddenly missing at sea and eventually be confirmed dead as dead can be. There’s a lot for the entertainment media to unpack there.

This new billionaire ticks a few of those boxes, but unless there’s foul play I doubt the coverage will last as long.

unless there’s foul play I doubt the coverage will last as long

There's got to be a good chance of a lawsuit alleging that the captain didn't prepare for stormy weather as well as he might have. Someone will advance a theory that the boat would have survived if certain hatches and doors were closed or the anchoring was done differently or the boat was under power or the keel was lowered...etc. A proper boat with a professional crew shouldn't sink in seconds when it's inshore, even when the mast snaps and it's been knocked flat.

Did the super yacht have crew?

Can't see them serving their own drinks and cooking their own food.

10 crew 12 passengers apparently

I guess that

Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.

could be known as Yoda's Razor?

Nah, "The simplest explanation is usually the best one."

But actually, when you're talking about driving, Hanlon's Razor is probably more accurate.

Man fills narrow boat with water for swimming pool builds own lock and canal for it in garden https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/local-news/man-transforms-canal-boat-back-29774073?utm_source=linkCopy&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebar

No mention of them is there, ok I've not read any of the media articles, just seen the headlines of missing rich people.
Also have fuck all sympathy for mega rich deaths on super yachts or submersibles.

If that makes me a cunt so be it.

Care more about people in Gaza and west bank etc than the mega rich.

Gillette or rolls safety razors

A prizewinning example of The Great British Eccentric, right there

Of course it has professional crew. They all do. Most of them have been named in the papers. Six guests are missing, probably dead. The body of one crew (the chef) has been recovered. So the other 9 crew survived? I think.

Poor chef is all I can say and hooray the baby was ok

Some British yacht crew people come unstuck by the 90 day post Brexit EU rule

This microplastics thing continues to amaze me. Still just incredulous after a few years' reporting on the issue.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/21/microplastics-brain-pollution-health

This was on that George Clark fronted programme on Channel 4, is it George Clarke's Amazing Spaces?

Half a per cent of our brain weight can be plastic. It causes oxidative stress. Maybe that's why I have ME/CFS. FML.