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[–] Jurbl@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sixty people die when Russia bombs a Ukrainian school and it passes by without much reaction. A sub with 4 people who know the risk of what they’re doing and a billionaire thrill seeker goes missing and it’s news to follow hourly.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get where you are coming from, but there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May.

Also, billionaires should not exist.

[–] Jurbl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes it worse. The event I was talking about was May of 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61369229

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@lemmy.one 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I said, "there was a lot of coverage of that event back in May". There have also been untold horrors unleashed on Ukraine since then. War is hell. Russia sucks.

[–] Jurbl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My bad, I misread your post and thought you were talking about the 19 innocent people killed by Russian missiles in April of this year. Sorry, my bad.

It's all good. When I was a kid in the '70s, I was living on Okinawa. The bomb people would come to my elementary every year and give a speech about what not to do if we would stumble upon unexploded ordinance. 40 years after WWII. I came to age reading about the awful, and ongoing, horrors of landmines in places like Cambodia. Reading/watching news about what's going on now in Ukraine is heartbreaking, and I can't help thinking about the long term impacts that a traumatized population will suffer. And the following years of shit exploding when a field is being plowed or whatever. It is almost too awful to even contemplate. In light of that, I agree with you, a handful of rich assholes going missing in the Atlantic is nothing.

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm only following to make sure he's really dead. The world could use less billionaires

[–] MiddleWeigh@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Do you want my billionaire? I thought it would be a novelty, to show off to my friends, like a houseplant, but it turns out, its kind of just a piece of shit.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.

[–] nivenkos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Because a bombing in a war isn't unexpected no matter how tragic it is.

Whereas it's rare that a group of multi-millionaires tries to visit the Titanic in a MacGyver-esque hobby submarine.