No and no, I’m thinking about working for myself as an independent automotive diagnostician. That would still be somewhat unethical and hard work, but at least I’d face real challenges and be helping people on an individual level. I can’t just quit my day job right off the bat due to health insurance. I’d have to start doing work on the side, but business insurance plus equipment and subscriptions would make it difficult to break even. Plus I haven’t worked on cars professionally in about 12 years so I’m not up to snuff on working on newer cars.

Everyone was born at 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970

People forget that emissions reduction isn’t just about global climate change but also local air quality. Sure, it doesn’t matter as much in rural areas where there are fewer cars. However, in large cities it adds up and makes air quality plummet. People have a right to fresh air. Idiots are going to bring back smog and increase lung cancer because of a minor annoyance that most people don’t even notice.

Politics of the worst kind

They live in their own paranoid delusional world where everyone is out to get them and they are the heroes between bad and good.

Although this can be a real pain as most pensions won’t wire transfer to other countries outside of the u.s. banking system. You’ll get stuck with a physical check that you can’t cash. There are options like having a Canadian or u.s. Bank account or get an account in the island of Jersey.

Anybody can sue anyone for any reason. Doesn’t mean they’ll win. It depends on who is willing to spend the most money.

Got told to go help someone and they got in my face yelling for looking at a piece of equipment they were having problems with. Next day I said I wouldn’t work with them and got told that I can’t pick who I work with. It turns out that you actually can pick who you work with.

You can also get a faraday bag.

It costs me less than $10/mo to run mine and some of that is because I have to pay for an email forwarder until my hosting provider lets me start sending emails, part of that is factoring the cost of the domain name. The actual cloud server costs $5/mo right now.