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This Brazil-Twitter stuff is hilarious. Great leadership Muskrat. (slrpnk.net)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It was about one day before that for me. I was like

oh that's so cool, he's got amazing engineers working to repurpose a pressure vessel from SpaceX to act as a rescue pod to save those kids.

Then actual cave divers were like:

any cave diver will tell you that this will never work

What kind of cave diving rescue plan doesn't talk to any cave divers before drawing any attention to itself? The kind designed solely to draw attention and stroke ego. He tried to make those boys' struggles about himself because he thinks he's the most capable man alive.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Yeah, that all played into the dynamic, though I didn't catch that aspect until after his tantrum.

My guess is that he's a shitty boss that is quick to punish mistakes and ideas that seem good early on but turn out to be bad after more attention was given to them or an attempt was made. So getting shot down became more than just about the sub, I'd bet part of it was not wanting to deserve a chewing out he's given many times so he tried to make it about something else.