Most techies care about such utter trivia don't but Slashdot ceased being a tech site in favor of idiotic general tabloid content aimed at airheads who buy supermarket tabloids and want to Titanic fantasies but have zero interest in visiting real museum ships.

It's owners do not want more site traffic or they'd have fired the so-called "editors" in their first week. Intelligent adults regard this drivel with utter contempt.

There is nil utilitarian value in finding the wreck, but immense entertainment value because the public (as with Titanic) find exotic unusual death a fun distraction from their daily life.

Once found it will provide an excuse for exciting movies (what's more appealing to the woke crowd than a female pilot in that era?) and other wank.

The searchers get funded to dive in the Pacific, a very cool techy vacation. Kudos to them if they find the Electra, but if not nothing of value is lost and a documentary to be gained.

The sooner the culturally inevitable decline of the US is accepted the better rest-of-world can succeed it. Needing the US for anything is a long hangover from WWII destroying real and potential competition.

The world should be doing its own research to keep the fruits thereof from Wall Street's grubby tentacles. I grew up through the space race but now see no reason the US deserves to hog research it can only use to benefit our owning kleptarchs.

Same, but my takeaway is that people just don't care about even using the trashcans/dumpsters. As long as the garbage is away from their own area, they don't really care.

There is a pretty awesome AI generated video with War Pigs as the song. It is actually fairly old now. It paints an interesting (not in a good way) reality.

Oh shit. It is gone. The only trace I can find is:

https://www.reddit.com/r/black...

It is only a problem if you follow the suggestions placed by YouTube, The AI slop creators know how to manipulate the algorithm to get into the "suggested" bar that is on the right hand side by default.

Dumbass. It isn't about clinging on to old technology. It is about usability. Having a choke knob reduces usability as those matters can be handled invisibly without your intervention. The climate control can not be handled invisibly. My car has "automatic" climate control and it is pretty damned good; however, it is also nowhere near perfect. I still need to fiddle with it from time to time... and, I have actual knobs and dials to do it with, so the lack of perfection is not so annoying.

Nobody gives a fuck for the unemployed. People only care about money and profit. There is no obscene profit in manufacturing those things here, so they will not be manufactured here. You are dead and your country has fallen. You just haven't realized it yet.

Your best guess would then be wrong. The reason America is falling is because nobody in power wants to adhere to the spirit of the US Constitution, so they keep violating it be varying degrees until legal arguments can be made that the Constitution does not actually say what it says.

The Camp Director died in the flooding. You will have to seek redress against the owners; however, with the Director dying, I am betting your rage goes unsatisfied.

The alerts stopped dead at the Sheriff. State Troopers were already in the area.

This had nothing to do with reduced funding. Take your stupidity elsewhere. Noem insisted that any action that requires an expenditure of more than $100k to be signed by her and only her. She got around to signing it after her weekend was over and she dragged herself into the office Monday morning.

The sirens were rejected previously, not due to lack of money, but because a democrat, Biden, had offered it. The locals rejected the money for the sirens because it came from a democrat.

Everything is working as chosen. All of those people died because of choices that either they had made or someone they had chosen had made for them.

Is this REALLY a tragedy? In one way, the loss of life is always a tragedy. In another way, everyone but the children got what they deserved from their own choices.

Nobody but the Sheriff in that area received ANY warnings. The Sheriff, who had received them, did not distribute those warnings until after the flooding was finished wiping out all of those camps and RV parks. 5 hours after.

To compound the issue, Texas authorities are so fucking stupid that they would have issued that flood alert statewide. I am sure the folks in El Paso would just silence the notifications from then on.

Controls should give tactile feedback because every moment the driver is distracted from the road is a safety risk.

The sole reason for zero-tactile feedback controls is lower manufacturing costs. That's also why automobiles do not use MFDs (Multi-Function Displays) like those on aircraft. Though they divert the eye they permit the user to place a finger over a screen-labeled button then press without looking at that button longer than necessary.