Tommy Thompson, 73, discovered millions of dollars’ worth of sunken treasure from the 1857 wreck of the SS Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold, off the coast of South Carolina in 1988.

Investors in Thompson’s venture accused him of cheating them out of promised proceeds and after years on the run he was jailed in 2015 on a criminal contempt charge.

A total of 161 investors had given Thompson $12.7m (£9.4m) to find the ship on the understanding that they would see returns on their investment.

Thompson, then an oceanic engineer at Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio, and his crew brought up thousands of gold bars and coins in 1988, much of them later sold to a gold marketing group in 2000 for about $50m.

He had maintained that the coins were turned over to a trust in Belize and that the profits from the sale of the first batch of gold had mostly gone toward legal fees and bank loans, according to the BBC’s US partner CBS News.

The investors sued Thompson in 2005, alleging they had not yet received any proceeds from the treasure’s sale. Later, a criminal complaint against Thompson said the gold bars and coins he recovered from the seafloor were worth up to $400m.

What do those letters in the ceiling mean? I’m especially confused by the h with a crossbar on it

What’s that round building for?

I bought a turd shaped stress squeeze toy at Dollarama in Quebec for C$2 or C$3

Google started bringing fiber to neighboring towns and all of a sudden the cable company started offering speeds 3x faster for less money and AT&T built out a fiber network including in our town, which didn’t get Google for another ten years, and then only a franchise that was paying for the Google name.

Should sue the AI facial recognition company. They can’t just say “whoopsie daisies” on that!

I remember when A Knight’s Tale was released, although much of it had no basis in history, the filmmakers claimed the jousting scenes were some of the most historically accurate ever filmed. They also shared the tidbit that the fatality rate at a tournament was similar to the injury rate at an American football game.

I have only ever been able to tell when it was someone I did not want to have a crush on me, someone I was definitely not interested in. If it was a woman I was interested in, or even someone not on my radar but that I probably would’ve seen how things went had I known she was interested in me, I have not figured it out until years later, if ever. My now-wife had to come right out and tell me she was interested. I would not be surprised to find out there were people I’d completely missed hints from decades ago.

I remember seeing a stunningly beautiful woman at the grocery store, and I looked in my cart and saw lactose-free milk, lactose-free probiotic yogurt, and ultra-soothing toilet paper. I’m sure she was impressed.

The Ioniq 6 is currently assembled in South Korea, unlike several other Hyundai electric vehicles sold in the United States. Hyundai produces the Ioniq 5 and the recently introduced Ioniq 9 electric SUVs at its plant near Savannah in the state of Georgia. The change in the US lineup therefore primarily affects the imported electric sedan.

We took my in-laws back to my father-in-law’s hometown on the west coast of France last year and it was kind of wild to have it not be dark out until 10 pm. A lot of times we didn’t have dinner until 8:30 or 9 because it didn’t feel that late.

They last tried DST “year-round” starting in January 1974 and people quickly hated it, with support dropping from 79% before it started to 42% three months in. Morning accidents increased and schoolchildren were injured or killed.

I don’t necessarily love the idea of the sun starting to rise as early as 4am in the summer, but I think if we’re going to stay with one we might as well stick to standard time year-round. We’d still have light past 8 PM where I live and it would mean activities better for the dark could start earlier. I see places wanting to take advantage of the warm weather for things like outdoor movies but they can’t start until after 9.

I only recently learned that in the US not every state has annual inspection requirements. In fact it’s a minority of states, only 14, and it looks like the inspection requirements have been reduced in recent years, such as some states exempting new vehicles for a certain amount of time or only requiring inspections for commercial vehicles. Both states I’ve lived in had annual inspections and I just assumed it was a thing everywhere.

I remember similar guidelines being taught when I was in driver’s ed in the US, but I don’t know if there were strict laws around it. If there are laws I would guess it is a state-by-state thing.

Loaded French fries?

Where else would it go? The veins are blue!

Runs on the A18, looks like 8GB unified RAM on all models. Only real choices are color and you can get 256 GB without Touch ID for $599 or 512 GB with Touch ID for $699. Primarily for school or office work, web browsing, video streaming. No MagSafe, two USB-C ports (one USB 3, one USB 2) and a headphone jack with a 13” screen.

The 13" M5 MacBook Air now starts at $1099.

This was something I realized when we drive to my wife’s parents. It’s 2,000 km each way from our house in the US to where they are in rural Quebec, Canada and we usually drive it twice a year. The charging times sound long, but even with our petrol car most of our stops end up being between 15 to 30 minutes anyways between fueling the car, taking the dog to grass, taking turns going to the toilet so the dog isn’t alone in the car, getting food and giving me a chance to eat so I’m not trying to drive and eat at the same time.

I think the real challenge of electric range anxiety is that it still takes planning, at least in some parts of the US. There are areas on our route where it might be 100 kilometers to the next fast charger, and there’s no guarantee that all of them will be working or compatible with a car’s fastest charging speeds. We don’t really have to think about where we’ll get gasoline; there’s pretty much always a station, often several, within the next few miles. Usually if we’re waiting to stop for fuel it’s because we’re looking for the best price, looking for a place that might have decent toilets, and/or might have an appealing food option along with the gasoline. That’s all manageable in electric but might need some advanced planning, and many American drivers aren’t used to doing that kind of route planning in advance anymore.

How many cars in Europe can drive 1,000 km without stopping anyways? The only ones I can think of offhand are large American pickup trucks intended for towing large trailers long distances. I wouldn’t expect to see them in Europe.

Are there any sickos that use black text on white?

IIRC that’s the default on macOS if the theme is in light mode instead of dark mode. So probably.

You really think someone would do that, just go on the internet and tell lies?