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Is this the 2024 version of train crashes? Rarely heard about this happening before and now we’ve had 2
Probably, in that when one thing happens, the news latches on to anything similar because they know it'll get views.
Don't forget The Ever Given! Granted it was a few years ago but still, lots of bad ship stuff in the past few years. Plus the Houthi attacks....not a great time to be a sailor
The politically correct term is seamen. /s
You couldn’t get me in a room with sailors.
But I couldn’t stand in a room with a group of seamen.
Yep. This and Boeing. It's astonishing how easily manipulated our view of reality is, and it's all because we can't tell what's a real risk and what's not. Humans are stupid at assessing risk in today's enormous world, we just did not evolve for it.
For example, people think getting randomly shot, murdered or raped is likely. Half of gun deaths are suicides and the vast majority of the remainder are bad people in bad places. The vast majority of rapes and murders are by someone known to the victim. (That's not victim blaming, only saying such violence doesn't often come out of the clear blue sky.)
OTOH, getting smeared to death on the road is truly random. Yet we all happily jump in our cars, roll hard down the interstate and think nothing of it. The news doesn't harp on it, that sort of death is understood, nothing sexy to report.