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”

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?

They knew about boiling water for salt since the Bronze age at least.

Salt price was largely determined by transport cost and it was just not worth the effort to gather the firewood instead of trading for it in many places.

You live every day. You only die once though.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Vim takes your keyboard shortcuts to the extreme. If you can be bothered to learn it.

It’s evil to take someones money. It’s necessary because it funds the surrounding. A necessary evil, as op asked for.

Tax. Noone wants their money to be taken away. But it’s probably a good idea to have at least some government funded stuff.

I’m convinced my old car was haunted. Flickering lights, unexplained movements, the muffled screams of the damned from the glove compartment.

I don’t live in the US, I only care for your foregin policy. I’m all for immigration for anyone who can be bothered to work and pay taxes with the rest of us. In fact if you manage so sneak into the country and pay tax you should be given a temporary residence permit just for the trouble.

If you have been a permanent resident for a long time you should be allowed to become a citizen. If your parents were here for a few years when you were born I’m not convinced it’s a good idea.

No. What’s the advantage for me as a citizen?