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by jodrellblank 246 days ago
Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price.

Instead, a pressure-proof deep sea camera module was found at the wreckage site. It’s less interesting that an expensive thing rated for ocean depths was intact at ocean depths.

Its like “missing child found after 4 days in Alaska temperatures!”

gasp! How did they survive!

“The child was on holiday in their grandparents’ holiday log cabin, with their grandparents, a log fire, food, water..”

Oh. Clickbait. Hiding the boring bit to make the story appear more of a tease.

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I noticed a pattern a few months ago in my phone's newsbait feed of headlines in the format "[Large familiar company] to close 500 stores on [date]" — and then below the fold "because it's [Independence Day, Rosh Hashanah, etc]" or "because they are moving to summer hours" or whatever.
> Here; the title focusing on the price is implying that the cheap SD card survived ocean floor environment alone. A surprising amount of stress for its price.

I certainly did not read that implication into the title, so it's entirely possible that the author didn't mean it.

- camera module found, was there photo/video/audio of the disaster? (no)

- thing survived ocean depths, unexpectedly.

Without either of those, what did you read into the title? "Part of wreckage found at wreckage site"? And you still clicked?

That was a laugh I needed and I’m using that in the future. The timing was perfect and I lost some coffee. Thank you!