I repair industrial machinery where it is worth it.

Phonecall and description of the problem: 15 minutes.

Guessing what parts may be broken and seeing if we have them in stock. Loading them into the car with my tools: 30 minutes.

Driving there, costs about 3€ per 10km where I live. Plus my time.

Disassembling and diagnose: minimum 15 minutes.

Replacing the part: best case 15 minutes.

Reassembly and test: best case 15 minutes.

Clean up the mess I made and get all my stuff can in the car: 15 minutes.

Drive back.

Fill in the time card, list replacement parts on invoice and send it: 15 minutes.

You’re looking at two hours plus driving for a job where everything goes right, and then spare parts on top of that.

If you’re doing it yourself you have to add an hour of watching YouTube on how to do it. Ordering the spare part, paying shipping which probably costs as much as the part itself. The job itself probably takes twice as long because it’s the first time you do it. You had to buy a special tool too because you did not have a torque wrench for T20. You maybe ordered the wrong part and have to get another.

At the end of the process you have a thing with all parts but one worn from a few years of use. Who knows what is next to break.

Or you could buy a new one for $500 and not have to worry for a year or two while it’s under warranty.

Rap, I don’t like it.

Could try to make something funny of it instead.

“I lost count after 65”

Probably won’t make much of it. Like anything online most of the money is made by top 1% of the creators.

That being said if you’ve always wanted to try it I’ve got this motto that I should not die curious.

Look up the risks and how to mitigate them.

Leibnitz formula for example:

1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 +1/9 - … = π/4

The more terms you bother with the more accurate you’ll get.

Do you want a quick and easy solution that could never work but would fit in a reply on Lemmy?

I was smarter.

That did not prevent me from being foolish like all kids are.

Generally frowned upon to invade countries.

Ludicrously costly. Your tax payers will want to know why it’s more important than everything else you do with their money.

Immense suffering. Mostly by the people you’re trying to liberate but also your own troops and their families.

They have nukes and could probably blow up at least a few regional cities. If the regime is threatened they will most likely use them.

South Korea or China or Russia are the only countries with land borders. China and Russia find NK useful to have arround to annoy US. Seoul is within artillerty range of the border.

Building up a new state in it’s place is very difficult. Remember how the Taliban took back power about 15 minutes after the US left Afghanistan?

If you don’t date because you are ugly/mental/whatever and thus black pilled then that is a part of your identity. Instead you spend all the time playing games.

If you don’t date because you put zero effort into your looks because you’re busy playing video games then games becomes a part of your identity.

You’re doing exactly the same thing but your choice is what emotional baggage comes with the crowd you choose to identify with. That in turn will influence you and your own mental well being over the decades.

It does not sound like a happy bunch to hang around. Is that what you aspire to have as a part of your identity?

Is there a preference that automatically end calls after 120 seconds?

Possibly. But there is a good reason that is not the way swimming is taught and I’d not jump in the deep end based on book knowledge.

That being said read, then practice, then read, then practice loop is a very quick way for me to learn.

A piece of paper and guesswork to begin with many years ago.

My bank app has an automated thing that guesses (i can correct it but it’s right 90%) what every non cash transaction is and puts it in a category.

I can go back and look through how much things have cost me month by month.

There is a bar or some device that is there to prevent your stuff from sliding forwards. I’ve not been crawling on the airplane floors enough to see any weight rating on it but I would bet money on it being crash tested and rated according to whatever the overhead compartments are.

The overhead compartments have a weight limit because they must be designed to keep the stuff in there during an emergency.

And since they are round-ish it does not matter so much which way is up when you stack them. A computer will always recognize them as zeros.

A one has to be somewhat close to the right way up (or upside down works too).

15-20 years ago I lived on about subsistence minimum for about 5 years.

No subscriptions. No TV. No car. No kids. Cook myself only cheapest food, no tobacco, no alcohol, no candy. Most of my furniture was used. Moved to a cheap-ish part of the country.

That does not sound right. Do you have a source for that claim?

You’re in a situation where you have to cut spending and raise taxes while the left promises to not cut spending and the right promises to not raise taxes. It’s an issue the last handful of administrations have not been able to deal with…

It’s going to be painful. Hopefully not a drawn out depression like the 1930s.

Duck auto carrot.

Jokes aside, I prefer to have errors be marked with an angry red squiggly line and suggestions. No automation beyond an upper case letter at the beginning of a sentence. Even that is too much on a computer.