fancy_coffeetable@feddit.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThe Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawiwww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square9fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down10
arrow-up114arrow-down1external-linkThe Greek shipwreck was a horrific tragedy. Yet it didn’t get the attention of the Titanic story | Arwa Mahdawiwww.theguardian.comfancy_coffeetable@feddit.de to Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square9fedilink
minus-squareHatchet@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.” I can count on one hand the number of billionaires who have died on an experimental submersible touring the wreck of the Titanic. Nobody looked at the Titan and thought: ahh well, they signed a waiver saying they accepted death was a possibility, there’s no point saving them. Yeah, this author has obviously never been on the Internet before.
“A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
I can count on one hand the number of billionaires who have died on an experimental submersible touring the wreck of the Titanic.
Yeah, this author has obviously never been on the Internet before.