Why the FUCK are we still catering to billionaires and the "elite" class when we're on the cusp of a scorched earth and total societal collapse? The Titanic is sinking and we're serving cucumber sandwiches and playing Vivaldi to 1st class in front of the lifeboats we don't get to use, WHY is this OK

Seriously, what? Why? Why are we enabling the people who are fucking up the planet we all have to live on? Why do we serve them their meals and drive their cars and clean their laundry? I have a fantasy where every POS rich person who got what they got through human suffering and exploitation is just...ignored.

Seriousky, try it. Pick your least favorite corrupt politician or out-of-touch space-fucking billionaire and play a scene in your mind where they wake up and no one acknowledges them.

Imagine their pissy little hissy fits when they demand their breakfast or clothes for the day or whatever only to be met by total silence and an indifferent, formerly-loyal workforce. Imagine their pathetic little scrunched up face getting redder and redder when they realize that they've lost it, it's gone...they can't coerce or bribe or threaten people to do their bidding anymore. They have to fucking cooperate if they want to live.

I know there will ALWAYS be indoctrinated dipshits who froam at the mouth in a frenzy to serve the predator class, but WHY? Why, after all the mounting evidence that billionaires and the "elite" are essentially parasites who make the world objectively worse through the working conditions they create and the environmental abuses they perpetuate, why do we KEEP WORKING TO MAKE THEIR LIVES COMFORTABLE WHILE THEY LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR DEATHS?

The ultra-rich are acting like the global climate catastrophe doesn't matter to them, because it doesn't; their money will insulate them no matter how bad things get. Well, I fucking wish we could change that. Oh no, Jess Bezo's hydroponic farm in his secret New Zealand apocalypse island needs someone to maintain it? Get fucked Jeff, no self-sustaining food source unless you put the work in and do it yourself or else learn how to cooperate with the rest of humanity.

Seriously, can we all just keep doing what we're doing and start working towards a healthier planet and society, while actively ignoring ultra-rich parasites in the process? We don't need a guillotine, all we need to do us stop serving these fucks until they realize what the "we're in this together" message their companies and governments propagate really means.

Whats the answer here? Why are we apparently more than okay to keep cleaning up after the shits who keep wrecking things for the rest of us?

Oh and if you're here to defend billionaires because "they help people by creating jobs" or whatever fucking excuse you use to sta

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Charles John Joughin, the last man on the titanic who went around giving bread to people on lifeboats in the Titanic’s last hours then treaded water for two hours in the cold Atlantic Ocean until he was rescued, circa 1912 [509 x 658]
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My series of drawings which depict the launching of lifeboats 13 and 15, based on the testimony of 14 year old 3rd class survivor, Johan Svensson, who was travelling alone from Sweden. Johan’s father didn’t even know his son was on the RMS Titanic until he finally arrived in Dakota and told him. reddit.com/gallery/rvx409
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TIL of Rhoda Abbott, the only woman to survive the foundering of the Titanic. A 39 yr-old divorcee traveling 3rd class with her teenage sons, she was able to climb aboard the swamped lifeboat Collapsible A as Titanic plunged. Her sons were lost. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho…
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PSA: The Criterion Channel has added 'Hitchcock for the Holidays' collection for December. 21 films including 'Vertigo', 'Rear Window', 'Lifeboat', and 'Rope' youtube.com/watch?v=9363L…
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CITY OF RAGUSA crossed the Atlantic from Liverpool to Boston in 1870 / clinker-built lifeboat modified with deck and yawl rig / lost in 1941 when the Liverpool Museum was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing. [1279Γ—846]
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TIL 14 years prior to Titanic sinking, the book Futility told the story of an unsinkable ship "Titan" which also struck an iceberg on it's starboard side in the North Atlantic on an April night. The fictitious ship closely matched the Titanic's length, weight, speed, capacity, and lack of lifeboats. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
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Sailors of the Mistral-class LHD Dixmude packing seized cocaine on the cargo ship Najlan. The total bust amounted to 6 tons. Atlantic, November 2021. [2048Γ—1363]
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[Album][2560x1641] Soviet Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) guided missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov. Norfolk, June 21 1989. reddit.com/gallery/o8u57q
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Gearing-class destroyer USS Steinaker (DD-863) taking swells in the North Atlantic as photographed from USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42). 1951.
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(956 x 649) Submariners nightmare.Photo taken from the periscope of a Norwegian Ula class submarine while the BrΓ©guet 1150 Atlantic anti-submarine plane is approaching
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On this day in 1950, HRH The Duke of Edinburgh assumed command of HMS Magpie and we’re excited to reveal that Wells-next-the-Sea’s new Shannon class lifeboat will be named Duke of Edinburgh, in honour of his maritime service @RoyalFamily @RoyalNavy | RNLI | Twitter twitter.com/rnli/status/1…
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Why the FUCK are we still catering to billionaires and the "elite" class when we're on the cusp of a scorched earth and total societal collapse? The Titanic is sinking and we're serving cucumber sandwiches and playing Vivaldi to 1st class in front of the lifeboats we don't get to use, WHY is this OK /r/TooAfraidToAsk/comment…
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1 week out! Atlantic Coast Championships in Florida. Figure class B. 5’2”. Woke up at 123.0 this morning. reddit.com/gallery/qt50ar
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Your on a sinking ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean with 2,000 people aboard but lifeboats for only 700 people. How would you escape Alive? How?
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Severn and Shannon class lifeboats power through waves youtu.be/JbNVwHLheEY
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Also this week: May 13th. Oceanic finds last lifeboat adrift in Atlantic containing 3 bodies. dailymail.co.uk/news/arti…
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W.T. Stead wrote a story about a ship sinking in the Mid Atlantic with too few lifeboats 26 years before he died on Titanic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How…
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(1398 x 1398) Virginia-class attack boat John Warner (SSN 785) as it conducts sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. Dolphin is showing the way
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Submariners nightmare. Photo taken from the periscope of a Norwegian Ula class submarine while the BrΓ©guet 1150 Atlantic anti-submarine plane is approaching
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Sawyer South Lifeboat Station + Tamar Class - Workshop Released reddit.com/gallery/l8mxz2
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TIL that a novel called "Futility" published in 1898 had surprising similarities to the sinking of the Titanic 14 years later: both had "unsinkable" passenger liners sinking after being struck by an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean, and losing most of their passengers due to lifeboat shortages. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
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In terms of lifeboat size, how would the Olympic-class ocean liners look with modern lifeboats in place of the ones they had back then?

Considering where the original lifeboats were positioned, would the modern lifeboats take up deck space or not?

Just so we're clear, I'm not talking about Clive Palmer's Titanic II and the location of its lifeboats.

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TIL There was a book written about an 'unsinkable', ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn't have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it's passengers. Ship was called 'The Titan'. The book was written in 1898... 14 years before the Titanic sank en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fut…
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You wake up in a First Class cabin of the Titanic somewhere on the Atlantic. What do you do?
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TIL that in 1898 a novella was published about a fictional ocean liner called "Titan", which sank in the North Atlantic after striking an iceberg. In the novel there were not enough lifeboats for passengers, and it also sank in April, as the real Titanic did 14 years later. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fut…
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Georges Leygues-class ASW frigate La Motte-Picquet escorting CDG during her Foch 2020 deployment, Northern Atlantic. [1920Γ—1280]
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USS Indiana (BB-1) was the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the United States Navy comparable to foreign battleships of the time. Indiana served in the Spanish–American War (1898) as part of the North Atlantic Squadron. Photo Circa 1900. [5522x3856]
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4 weeks out of Atlantic coast championships in FT Lauderdale. Weighing about 126. Stage weight should be around 121. Figure class B. 5’2 reddit.com/gallery/qeggxa
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The Italian submarine Ammiraglio Cagni. She was part of a class of submarines specifically designed for long range operations in the oceans, with a range of 13,500 nautical miles at 9 knots and 19,500 at 7,5 knots. She operated from Bordeaux, on the Atlantic coast of France
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(1398 x 1398) Virginia-class attack boat John Warner (SSN 785) as it conducts sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean. Dolphin is showing the way
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So which one is supposed to be the actual location of the class. One says the class is in the Atlantic building and the other says it's in the plant sciences building reddit.com/gallery/rynpfw
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Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil) task force consisting of the Clemenceau-class aircraft carrier NAe SΓ£o Paulo (A12) with a replenishment vessel and a former British Type 22 frigate, along with other escorts, underway off the Brazilian coast, Atlantic Ocean, 2011. [828 x 823]
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[Serious] If the Titanic were sailing today - in the exact condition she was in 1912 (same lifeboats, passengers, radio tech etc.) would there be the same loss of life? How easily would people be rescued? How quickly could help get to a sinking ship in the Atlantic?
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Well deck of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock USS New York (LPD-21), Atlantic Ocean, Nov. 16, 2017 [5760Γ—3840] media.defense.gov/2017/No…
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TIL influential newspaper editor William Thomas Stead wrote a story in 1892 about a ship sinking in the Atlantic at great loss of life due to not enough lifeboats. Stead died in the Titanic sinking in 1912. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wil…
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Or like that post on Twitter of Rose's mom Ruth asking if the lifeboats will be seated according to class
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Five Fact, Reality Check! Crossing two thirds of the Atlantic in 2 weeks with a lifeboat!

1 - My main character is 1 month out at sea, its three months between his continent and another, the ship goes down in a war in one night, he then drifts two weeks to the other continent. Now it would normally take two months in a ship, but he is in a small life boat, could a storm or other reason be used to make him get there faster in 2 weeks instead of 2 months. It's a little over 3,600 miles in distance, which would make it about 2000-2400 miles to go.

2 - I've seen chemicals used to grow foam quickly, could a chemical be used to grow a stone mountain or formation taller? Like if barrels or gallons were pumped onto it, some form of alchemy? like chemicals can also grow crystals, so why not stone?. https://www.thoughtco.com/chemicals-for-growing-crystals-607651

3 - Would a tree be able to adsorb enough water to produce a natural water spring from its trunk, this idea stems from a weeping willow holding so much water that they attract lightning.

4 - Would an underwater ice igloo or base in midevil times sound possible? And how could you freeze ice blocks to patch a broken flooding wall if you were trapped down there.

5 - Could humans evolve the ability to have iron hair or nails or other defense or use of it in 25,000 years, if they ate a lot of iron in their diet, say like this snail for example which i got the idea from, and the fact humans evolved to digest diary products in only 7 thousand years.https://www.wired.com/2015/02/absurd-creature-of-the-week-scaly-foot-snail/

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A guide to planning/booking ANA first class via Virgin Atlantic

With the recent Amex MR transfer bonus to Virgin Atlantic I decided to make a speculative booking to Japan for fall of 2022. I’ve been watching the situation very closely in Japan, and I believe that there’s a decent chance that Japan opens for tourism before or around this time. However, that’s not what this post is about, this is about how to book ANA first class as of October 2021.

A couple of key points before we get started:

  • Virgin Atlantic points needed: 60,000 one-way (120,000 RT)
  • Taxes/Fees due: $122.77
  • If you need to cancel for whatever reason, your flight is entirely refundable up to 24hrs prior to your flight departure for only a $50 fee. You can also change to a different flight at an earlier or later date (assuming there is award availability) if your timelines change for the same fee, which is very reasonable imo.

There are currently two premium cabins available to book via ANA, both first class and business class, however, when looking for a flight you’ll want to be conscious of what airport you fly out of. Currently the only airports the newest products (β€œThe Room” and β€œThe Suite”, respectively) are available flying out of Heathrow (LHR), Frankfurt (FRA) and New York (JFK). These products are offered via the retrofitted Boeing 777’s in ANA’s fleet, sometimes referred to as the 77W. I’m sure as international travel begins to resume further ANA will roll this product out to more airports, with the west coast of the US a very likely candidate either via LAX, SFO, or perhaps even SEA. If you don’t care if you get the old or new product you can ignore flying in/out of one of these specific airports and book what’s most convenient to you as it should be the exact same price.

Finding Availability

Searching for award availability can be done a couple of ways. Most will probably opt for using United’s website, which has decent visual tools to determine if premium cabins are available on any given partner flight. The only problem is the visual tools can sometimes give you United blue balls by showing premium cabin availability, and when you click into that date on the calendar it’s only business class. However, as I’ve been planning my trip I’ve been using a pretty neat tool developed by user canadiancow over at FlyerTalk. It’s very spartan, but EXTREMELY powerful, and has great options to easily, and clearly sort for the cabin

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Virgin Atlantic upper class difference

Looking at Delta flights from JFK to London. Most are operated by Virgin Atlantic and looking into upper class for my dad. Most are around 2700 currently including the A350. But there is one offered for 1900 787-9 there are also other 787-9 at the 2700 price why is the 1900 one so much cheaper? Still non stop, similar red eye flight time. Any ideas why the price difference? Also is the A350 just better and should go with it regardless?

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(1080 x 608) Last week, the River-class offshore patrol vessel HMS Severn became the first ship since WWII to be painted with the Western Approaches camo scheme as seen in this image of the HMCS Restigouche in 1941. HMS Severn's fresh scheme is a tribute to sailors of the Battle of the Atlantic
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River-class frigate HMCS NEW WATERFORD (K321) makes headway in the North Atlantic, as seen from the deck of the escort carrier HMS FENCER (D64)
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Matt Karp: β€œI think the dominant fact of world history since the 1970sβ€”the history of the North Atlantic industrial and post-industrial worldβ€”is the devolution of the labor movement, the weakening of the institutional power of the working class, and the collapse of class politics itself.” persuasion.community/p/-w…
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Aquitaine-class FREMM Normandie during her first Long Term Deployment in the Atlantic, final phase of her trials before she is commissioned, January 2020. [2048Γ—1279]
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[March 24 1915] Morgan Andrew Robertson dies today. He published Futility in 1898. It was a story about SS Titan which deemed unsinkable has an insufficient number of lifeboats. On an April voyage the Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic with the loss of almost everyone on board. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor…
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Why the FUCK are we still catering to billionaires and the "elite" class when we're on the cusp of a scorched earth and total societal collapse? The Titanic is sinking and we're serving cucumber sandwiches and playing Vivaldi to 1st class in front of the lifeboats we don't get to use, WHY is this OK

Seriously, what? Why? Why are we enabling the people who are fucking up the planet we all have to live on? Why do we serve them their meals and drive their cars and clean their laundry? I have a fantasy where every POS rich person who got what they got through human suffering and exploitation is just...ignored.

Seriousky, try it. Pick your least favorite corrupt politician or out-of-touch space-fucking billionaire and play a scene in your mind where they wake up and no one acknowledges them.

Imagine their pissy little hissy fits when they demand their breakfast or clothes for the day or whatever only to be met by total silence and an indifferent, formerly-loyal workforce. Imagine their pathetic little scrunched up face getting redder and redder when they realize that they've lost it, it's gone...they can't coerce or bribe or threaten people to do their bidding anymore. They have to fucking cooperate if they want to live.

I know there will ALWAYS be indoctrinated dipshits who froam at the mouth in a frenzy to serve the predator class, but WHY? Why, after all the mounting evidence that billionaires and the "elite" are essentially parasites who make the world objectively worse through the working conditions they create and the environmental abuses they perpetuate, why do we KEEP WORKING TO MAKE THEIR LIVES COMFORTABLE WHILE THEY LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR OUR DEATHS?

The ultra-rich are acting like the global climate catastrophe doesn't matter because to them it doesn't, their money will insulate them no matter how bad things get. Well, I fucking wish we could change that. Oh no, Jess Bezo's hydroponic farm in his secret New Zealand apocalypse island needs someone to maintain it? Get fucked Jeff, no self-sustaining food source unless you put the work in and do it yourself or else learn how to cooperate with the rest of humanity.

Seriously, can we all just keep doing what we're doing and start working towards a healthier planet and society, while actively ignoring ultra-rich parasites in the process? We don't need a guillotine, all we need to do us stop serving these fucks until they realize what the "we're in this together" message their companies and governments propagate really means.

Whats the answer here? Why are we apparently more than okay to keep cleaning up after the shits who keep wrecking things for the rest of us?

Oh and if you're here to defend billionaires because "they help people by creating jobs" or whatever fucking excuse you use to stan

... keep reading on reddit ➑

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