It also doesn't care about how many Social Justice points you've collected. You get the math, the physics, and the engineering right, or people die. Titan sub CEO dismissed safety warnings as 'baseless cries', emails show - BBC News
Warnings over the safety of OceanGate's Titan submersible were repeatedly dismissed by the CEO of the company, email exchanges with a leading deep sea exploration specialist show.
In messages seen by the BBC, Rob McCallum told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush saw concerns about safety as a means for "the industry" to stop innovation. Just because you have a new idea, doesn't mean it will work. Not even if you are crazy rich. Or just crazy.
"We have heard the baseless cries of 'you are going to kill someone' way too often," [Stockton Rush] wrote. "I take this as a serious personal insult."
Safety warnings are a personal insult because in his mind he could simply NOT be wrong. He was STOCKTON RUSH! How dare you contradict him! [In your best Gretta T. voice] "How dare you!"
And I'll repeat myself...
As Pixy Misa (or Mixy Pisa) has noted, the universe doesn't care about how many diversity boxes you have checked.
When you build a bridge, it doesn't matter if you respect people's pronouns and their lived experience. It doesn't matter if you hate "fascists" and cheer "progress" and drink only sustainable organic fair-trade soy lattes.
You get the fucking math right or it falls down.
It also doesn't matter if you're rich, and convinced you are right. And it applies to more than just bridges.
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