“Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big U.S. fraud trial, was among the six people who remain unaccounted for after their chartered sailboat sank off Porticello, when a tornado over the water known as a waterspout struck the area overnight, said Salvo Cocina of Sicily’s civil protection agency.“ …anyway…

  • blame [they/them]
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    29 days ago

    This guy made license plate scanning and facial recognition and other software to support the police state.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      29 days ago

      This guy made

      berdly-actually he didn't do shit except pay others to do it while slapping his name on it and collecting the lucre.

        • UlyssesT [he/him]
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          29 days ago

          I admit I also say "(billionaire grifter) made" quite often and have to catch myself too.

      • VILenin [he/him]M
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        29 days ago

        pay others to do it while slapping his name on it and collecting the lucre.

        Made other people do it and stole the proceeds

        Not that they were making anything noble ofc

      • Hestia [comrade/them, she/her]
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        29 days ago

        Um, excuse me? I don't see you creating jobs? Pick yourself up by the bootstraps, you're just jealous of his intellectual vim and vigor.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    29 days ago

    It had a crew of 10 people and 12 passengers, the Italian coast guard said. A sudden fierce storm had battered the area overnight, and struck the place precisely where the 56-meter (184-foot) British-flagged Bayesian had been moored.

    Holy fuck he named his ship the Bayesian? Peak bazinga nerd bazinga absolute uncritical support to comrade freak storm.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      29 days ago

      Bayesian

      I HATE CAPITAL-R "RATIONALISTS" yud-rational

      I HATE CAPITAL-R "RATIONALISTS" yud-rational

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    29 days ago

    The Disruptive Innovators of the world continue to demonstrate how repetitive and dull they really are with the same tired boring uses of their lucre. debord-tired

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    29 days ago

    Lynch, who was acquitted in June in a big U.S. fraud trial

    There’s no acquittal where he’s headed che-smile

  • Chronicon [they/them]
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    29 days ago

    so is it a superyacht or a sailboat? or did they just put sails on a superyacht?

    I ask because a superyacht I assume has support staff/victims/etc on board to feel bad for, if it was just this guy and his ilk its crab-party

      • LocalOaf [they/them]
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        29 days ago

        I'm not a boat expert, but that mast height for the size of the boat looks very capsizeable

        • pinguinu [any]@lemmygrad.ml
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          29 days ago

          That depends on the ballast, but the greatest danger is that all the winches on those big boats are electric, meaning that if something breaks the sail(s) get(s) stuck and the best case is you get rescued and lose the ship. A booj problem to have indeed

          Or they attempted a backflip and it went wrong

  • jackmarxist [any]
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    29 days ago

    Didn't this exact same thing happen in the Wolf of the Wall Street movie?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      29 days ago

      Down came the Storm and flushed the bazingas out porky-spider

    • LocalOaf [they/them]
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      29 days ago

      The "Lady Ghislaine" didn't sink though, Trump ended up buying it after Robert Maxwell's death iirc

  • Des [she/her, they/them]
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    29 days ago

    killed by a waterspout on a whole big ass sea

    like you can just move before it meanders its way to you at 3 mph

    • iie [they/them, he/him]
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      29 days ago

      a tornado at night is functionally invisible, especially if it’s rain-wrapped and there are no arcs from breaking power lines. At best you can glimpse it in brief flashes when lightning silhouettes the funnel, like something out of a horror movie.

      • Des [she/her, they/them]
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        29 days ago

        yeah i know. they were moored too was just doing a bit

        been on a tornado kick anyways been watching lots of vids was just imagining one of those sedate EF0 equivilant non-torndaic waterspouts wiping out a big boat