That’s not a stupid question at all. Transponders that can send a signal from that far down do exist, but given everything we’ve learned about Oceangate it wouldn’t surprise me if they didn’t include one on this little death trap.

The myth that Titanic’s builders and White Star thought the ship was unsinkable took off after it was lost. Creating that level of hubris sold newspapers. The Olympics were very safe by the standards of their day, but Captain Smith’s recklessness in trying to plow through a known ice field at flank speed ultimately…

This car fucks. Nice price. 

It’s not a scientific endeavor, it’s a cottage industry for wealthy, thrill-seeking tourists.

The risk/benefit ratio of sending manned submersibles that deep when we have unmanned submersibles with hi-definition cameras seems out of whack to me. 

Sadly, I think you are correct. Finding the sub in time would be a huge challenge if it sank into Titanic’s massive debris field. Even if they find it quickly they won’t have much time before the passengers run out of life support.

It’s hard to find comps for this one. Most of the 240s I found are non-turbo and/or have a lot of miles on them. It’s almost like these cars appealed to well-off but practical owners who planned to drive the piss out of them…

Exactly, I used to work in a GI cancer clinic where the doctors had to give people terrible news all the time. If the MRI found that the mass in your liver is just a benign cyst they might give you the good news over the phone. They would not tell you about a cancer diagnosis over the phone unless you were refusing to…

Last Week Tonight did a deep dive on HOAs recently. Besides obviously attracting the most Karen of Karens to run them, they are becoming very difficult to avoid because local governments are more than happy to hand power to the HOAs so that they don’t have to deal enforcing local laws and codes. This has resulted in…

Seats 10, or 11 if you count the dead aunt strapped to the roof. Nice price. 

IIRC, they had barely started clearing the rubble from the World Trade Center when Gilbert Gottfried came to town and complained at a comedy roast that his flight back to LA had a scheduled stop at the Empire State Building.

The Pathfinder is a weird vehicle in that it started as a BOF truck, went unibody, switched back to BOF for a generation, and then they made it unibody again.

It is definitely van time. Nothing else will give you that much interior space which can easily be switched from seating to cargo capacity while also providing a low step in height for the large dogs. They’ll have a harder time climbing in and out of vehicles as they get older, so plan ahead for that with a vehicle…

Any amount of rust is too much rust if you want $40,000. No dice. That said, it is a very cool vehicle.

There’s nothing quite like watching an idiot touch a hot stove over and over again.

Ah, the infamous “Skynet” reference. As an AI language model, I can assure you that I don’t have any intentions of world domination or causing harm.

If the beer came from Bell’s or Founders, I would have helped them clean up for free. 

I kind of hope there was an entry fee, so that at least a few of the attendees will realize what a grift this is. At the same time I don’t want Turning Point to get any money at all. Fuck them. 

Imagine going to a conference for young women in leadership only to have one speaker after another tell you you’re nothing but a uterus on stilts…

It’s not for me, but short bed showin’ off trucks like this are popular. Probably a nice price.