Have you actually worked as a mechanic, then? I don’t know who else would be pulling out the engine of a modern car.

It’s true that you can make a good living as a tradesperson working on houses. A great living, even, if like in my area there’s a shortage. I know mechanics and they seem okay, but I think they’re all heavy mechanics, so that doesn’t necessarily contradict you. One person that does auto bodies, too, which again, isn’t different.

Nope. IIRC the big mystery was solved somehow and there was a proper climax.

Anyway, here’s Wonderwall…

Like, is it really that great for boosting romantic success? I mostly just hear the roasting.

(If you want to make money at it or get famous, I can assure you skill isn’t a big part of the equation. I’ve been close enough to the industry to definitively say a lot gets fixed in post)

Have you considered the possible financial implications of this? Playing music is great, but poverty isn’t.

So many music answers here, I didn’t expect that.

Maybe my ability to “sing” by vibrating just my lips together, in exchange for absolutely anything useful. I don’t know if anyone else can do that, so if we’re going by a kind of bell curve way of measuring “talent”, it could fix a lot for me.

I’d trade my car repair skill for house repair

Interesting, why? You’d think they both are things you either have to do yourself or pay someone for.

I feel like there’s got to be people out there that want the opposite trade.

Interesting. I’ve tried Linux phones, they’re not a bad idea per se. It looks like Waydroid is literally just emulating LineageOS, though, so I do start to wonder what the point is.

I suppose one advantage would be you can actually hack your system a bit, instead of having everything locked into the ROM.

Yeah, there’s an annoying amount of controversy over whether “Iran was trying to make a bomb”. It gets mixed answers from experts, because the literal answer is one thing, the effective answer is another, and there’s no way to explain it responsibly in a word or two.

Iran was/is trying to almost-but-not-quite get the bomb. Whether just going for it would of worked better or if the US would have stepped in sooner is an interesting question. It’s possible the Ayatollah wasn’t lying about having personal moral issues with it, though.

Hey, Putin could decide to end it all next year, for all we know. Or maybe AI arrives in 2040 and is already well on it’s way to total paperclip conversion of Earth by 2112.

On the other hand, if everything goes pretty straightforwardly some of the same people will be around in 2112, and some but not all of the same geopolitical and social divisions, as well. That stuff settles out over decades, and there’s only 9 decades to 2112.

And even this improvement wasn’t universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn’t ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate “the ease of programming” with the ease of making undetected mistakes.

This guy was writing in the year x86 was first introduced, and I still feel like I see this attitude around.

(He manages to shoehorn in a “kids these days” paragraph too, though)

Yes, but quality takes actual skill to measure, instead of just a diff.

(Although I guess lines are still better than time in office)

Hmm, was the boss hoping to turn that into a “why do I even pay you” moment?

Maybe a large seal species. Something to ride in the water, but that could still come on land and fall asleep by the fire.

… Does this count as bestiality?

It’s could help lose weight, I guess.

The murderous insanity would actually be kinda funny if it was in miniature against, like, a beetle.

Uh, so other side of the border from me is red state Montana. Anyway, I think the idea is you load it onto something else once it’s in and take it to an actual target. It’s just a long border that’s hard to seal perfectly.

If there’s a note of disbelief in there, I’d like to point out America has nukes and uses them as a deterrent the same way. Like, whether proliferation is morally justified, of if we should just accept our fate in that scenario, is a serious question we should ask, but you don’t really have a moral highground about it.

Obviously I’m not saying killing people is cool, and we know that 2/3 of Americans didn’t ask for any of this.

If you don’t care about installing any particular mobile software, that would work.

LineageOS is the current game in town otherwise, unless you want a Pixel, in which case there’s options like GrapheneOS.

TIL.

Delivery would be an issue for sure. Then again, if the potential target is America “guys on quads” would work. If the target isn’t America, America will do it for us. Edit: Because they own the Western hemisphere, and we’re their bitch.

I mean, they’re not wrong, they could get away with a lot less without the nukes.

North Korea will fall to something other than invasion now. For example, things usually don’t go too well for female monarchs, because the men around them are dicks.

How directly civilians are targeted and how formally varies quite a bit, actually, even in ancient wars.