ickplant@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 20 days agoThis will never stop being funny to melemmy.worldimagemessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up1447arrow-down17
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minus-squareits_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up27·20 days agoThe first spike is the Titanic sinking, and the second little blip is ocean gate.
minus-squarelugal@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down21·20 days agoOcean gate? Never heard it referred like that. Funny how gate is just a word for scandal by now. It all started with the Watergate gate.
minus-squareits_kim_love@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up43·20 days agoIronically the company is just called ocean gate. It’s purely a coincidence.
minus-squaremic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·20 days agoThe company was literally named OceanGate Inc. So yeah, it very neatly fell into the “call every scandal [thing]-gate” media habit. The actual sub was named Titan.
minus-squareBlue_Morpho@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·20 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate
The first spike is the Titanic sinking, and the second little blip is ocean gate.
Ocean gate? Never heard it referred like that. Funny how gate is just a word for scandal by now. It all started with the Watergate gate.
Ironically the company is just called ocean gate. It’s purely a coincidence.
The company was literally named OceanGate Inc. So yeah, it very neatly fell into the “call every scandal [thing]-gate” media habit. The actual sub was named Titan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate