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Jun. 22nd, 2023 08:04 pm1. Read this recently: ""Narcissistic individuals feel superior to others, fantasize about personal successes, and believe they deserve special treatment. When they feel humiliated, they often lash out aggressively or even violently........ The...findings are consistent with the view that children come to see themselves as they believe to be seen by significant others, as if they learn to see themselves through others’ eyes (29). “Each to each a looking-glass, reflects the other that doth pass,” as Charles Cooley (29) described it. When children are seen by their parents as being more special and more entitled than other children (overvaluation), they may internalize the view that they are superior individuals, a view that is at the core of narcissism. However, when children are treated by their parents with affection and appreciation (warmth), they may internalize the view that they are valuable individuals, a view that is at the core of self-esteem."
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1420870112
How to deal with the narcissist in your life? Burn it Down states that you can't attack them or report them for bullying, without getting retaliation. And they can't change - because in order to change they need to know what they are doing is wrong and be self-aware. So, you can only change how you handle them. Basically with kid gloves, and hope for the best. I'm...well, dealing with one on a daily basis.
2. As predicted, the submersible carrying five people (four idiots and a a 19 year old unwilling participant) imploded. It wasn't constructed well enough to protect it against the pressure of the ocean. They found pieces of the wreckage. It interrupted the soap that I'd recorded. (eyeroll).
ETA:
There was issues with the craft. Unlike the crafts that Cameron and others have taken - this one didn't follow all the safety measures. And they hadn't been regulating it.
I feel sorry for the 19 year old who was pressured into going with his father, by his parents. Apparently he'd told his Aunt he was terrified and didn't want to go. I told this to mother, who commented that the boy's mother would most likely hate herself for the rest of her life.
That's tragic. I don't care about the other four. Just that boy, and his remaining relatives. Losing a child at any age or anyway is losing a part of oneself.
I hope the company goes out of business. Apparently the US and Canadian governments have agreed to ban future tourism of the Titantic due to the tragedy.
Cameron who went down 33 times - did it on a different vessel which had followed the necessary safeguards, and didn't go quite as deep. Also he sent Rovers down for the filming of The Titantic wreckage. You can't dive down, and it's almost impossible to travel down there - due to the ocean pressure.
ETA: found the Cameron article -
In 2012, Mr. Cameron designed and piloted an experimental submersible into a region in the Pacific Ocean called the Challenger Deep. Mr. Cameron had not sought certification of the vessel’s safety by organizations in the maritime industry that provide such services to numerous companies.
“We did that knowingly” because the craft was experimental and its mission scientific, Mr. Cameron said. “I would never design a vehicle to take passengers and not have it certified.”
Mr. Cameron strongly criticized Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive who piloted the submersible when it disappeared Sunday, for never getting his tourist submersible certified as safe. He noted that Mr. Rush called certification an impediment to innovation.
“I agree in principle,” Mr. Cameron said. “But you can’t take that stance when you’re putting paying customers into your submersible — when you have innocent guests who trust you and your statements” about vehicle safety.
As a design weakness in the Titan submersible and a possible cautionary sign to its passengers, Mr. Cameron cited its construction with carbon-fiber composites. The materials are used widely in the aerospace industry because they weigh much less than steel or aluminum, yet pound for pound are stronger and stiffer.
The problem, Mr. Cameron said, is that a carbon-fiber composite has “no strength in compression”— which happens as an undersea vehicle plunges ever deeper into the abyss and faces soaring increases in water pressure. “It’s not what it’s designed for.”
The company, he added, used sensors in the hull of the Titan to assess the status of the carbon-fiber composite hull. In its promotional material, OceanGate pointed to the sensors as an innovative feature for “hull health monitoring.” Early this year, an academic expert described the system as providing the pilot “with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.”
In contrast to the company, Mr. Cameron called it “a warning system” to let the submersible’s pilot know if “the hull is getting ready to implode.”
Mr. Cameron said the sensor network on the sub’s hull was an inadequate solution to a design he saw as intrinsically flawed.
“It’s not like a light coming on when the oil in your car is low,” he said of the network of hull sensors. “This is different.”
Sigh. Definite Darwin Award winners. No doubt about it. People are crazy.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1420870112
How to deal with the narcissist in your life? Burn it Down states that you can't attack them or report them for bullying, without getting retaliation. And they can't change - because in order to change they need to know what they are doing is wrong and be self-aware. So, you can only change how you handle them. Basically with kid gloves, and hope for the best. I'm...well, dealing with one on a daily basis.
2. As predicted, the submersible carrying five people (four idiots and a a 19 year old unwilling participant) imploded. It wasn't constructed well enough to protect it against the pressure of the ocean. They found pieces of the wreckage. It interrupted the soap that I'd recorded. (eyeroll).
ETA:
There was issues with the craft. Unlike the crafts that Cameron and others have taken - this one didn't follow all the safety measures. And they hadn't been regulating it.
I feel sorry for the 19 year old who was pressured into going with his father, by his parents. Apparently he'd told his Aunt he was terrified and didn't want to go. I told this to mother, who commented that the boy's mother would most likely hate herself for the rest of her life.
That's tragic. I don't care about the other four. Just that boy, and his remaining relatives. Losing a child at any age or anyway is losing a part of oneself.
I hope the company goes out of business. Apparently the US and Canadian governments have agreed to ban future tourism of the Titantic due to the tragedy.
Cameron who went down 33 times - did it on a different vessel which had followed the necessary safeguards, and didn't go quite as deep. Also he sent Rovers down for the filming of The Titantic wreckage. You can't dive down, and it's almost impossible to travel down there - due to the ocean pressure.
ETA: found the Cameron article -
In 2012, Mr. Cameron designed and piloted an experimental submersible into a region in the Pacific Ocean called the Challenger Deep. Mr. Cameron had not sought certification of the vessel’s safety by organizations in the maritime industry that provide such services to numerous companies.
“We did that knowingly” because the craft was experimental and its mission scientific, Mr. Cameron said. “I would never design a vehicle to take passengers and not have it certified.”
Mr. Cameron strongly criticized Stockton Rush, the OceanGate chief executive who piloted the submersible when it disappeared Sunday, for never getting his tourist submersible certified as safe. He noted that Mr. Rush called certification an impediment to innovation.
“I agree in principle,” Mr. Cameron said. “But you can’t take that stance when you’re putting paying customers into your submersible — when you have innocent guests who trust you and your statements” about vehicle safety.
As a design weakness in the Titan submersible and a possible cautionary sign to its passengers, Mr. Cameron cited its construction with carbon-fiber composites. The materials are used widely in the aerospace industry because they weigh much less than steel or aluminum, yet pound for pound are stronger and stiffer.
The problem, Mr. Cameron said, is that a carbon-fiber composite has “no strength in compression”— which happens as an undersea vehicle plunges ever deeper into the abyss and faces soaring increases in water pressure. “It’s not what it’s designed for.”
The company, he added, used sensors in the hull of the Titan to assess the status of the carbon-fiber composite hull. In its promotional material, OceanGate pointed to the sensors as an innovative feature for “hull health monitoring.” Early this year, an academic expert described the system as providing the pilot “with enough time to arrest the descent and safely return to surface.”
In contrast to the company, Mr. Cameron called it “a warning system” to let the submersible’s pilot know if “the hull is getting ready to implode.”
Mr. Cameron said the sensor network on the sub’s hull was an inadequate solution to a design he saw as intrinsically flawed.
“It’s not like a light coming on when the oil in your car is low,” he said of the network of hull sensors. “This is different.”
Sigh. Definite Darwin Award winners. No doubt about it. People are crazy.