You already don’t have a good vibe from him, and life goals sound incompatible. If he made one sexual innuendo and you didn’t respond to it, then he continued doing so he doesn’t respect your boundaries.

Hard pass

The lack of documentation is a huge problem, if you opened up an old tube amp to fix it there was often a full schematic taped to the cover. Solid state amps often had component values stenciled right on the board.

The case was reportedly quite damning and ended up going nowhere.

I haven’t seen any sources yet that say that’s why she was fired though, it could be. It seems more likely that trump hates her dad and wants to install another loyalist.

Wired did a piece on this, but there isn’t much more information in it than this one

The level of technical knowledge needed to repair things has increased, while general technical knowledge has decreased. People aren’t reading Popular Mechanics from the 1950’s where “build a hovercraft from an old lawnmower” the building one.

Parts are also a huge problem. Where previously a car alternator, for example, was three discrete parts, alternator-rectifier–voltage regulator, that is now a single assembly. If one of those parts goes bad you need to replace the whole thing, unless you have used parts you can pull from. For some things the assembly is NLA, no longer available.

As for why it’s cheaper that comes down to manufacturers wanting to sell you a new one, not wanting to have to spend money on repair stock sitting somewhere, and possibly not having access to it themselves since very few manufacturers actually produce a complete product on their own.

For something simple like a Bluetooth speaker, the power supply comes from one company, the Bluetooth module and amplifier from another, the driver, a display board, the housing, someone designs it and puts that all together. If any one of those chains fails you may not be able to source the part to fix something.

There are usually workarounds to this but unless you are doing it yourself it will be cost prohibitive

Example: friend rented a house with a new stove, gas top, electric oven. Two months later the oven stopped working, motherboard was NFG (no fucking good), it was also NLA. So the landlord bought a new stove. The old one could have been made to work, but the complete functionally would not have been there. If my friend owned this I would have said ‘I can make it work, but you will be missing these features’.

I know this doesn’t matter anymore, but I thought you couldn’t depart to 3rd countries unless someone arrived from there.

And yes, I read this bit

Last month, the US Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own.

Doesn’t it violate international law?

Define “some” money. If your needs are actually basic, roof over your head, food, like that, then there are many places you can go.

Poor boy has had a rough week, first his wife says she wants a divorce because of his adultery and now he finds out he’s impotent in a different state.

Being a dog fearing christian is tough in this day and age, especially when you’re actually a shitbag.

This administration has the moral integrity and intelligence of the average reality TV series. Just a bunch of intellectually stunted teenagers.

Background from last week

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/03/holloman-lake-birds-wildlife-pfas-forever-chemicals-aoe

It’s pretty grim

‘We thought we’d got the numbers wrong’: how a pristine lake came to have the highest levels of ‘forever chemicals’ on record

Like Frank Pavone

I’m never gonna defend the Catholics in any way.

The pope has vast influence, that’s what this is about.

This of course does not apply in the u.s. where they’re on the verge of Great Schism 2: Electric Boogaloo

It’s 25 kms away

She initially lied about the source of the mushrooms too. “From an Asian market”. And denied foraging.

Later it was “an Asian market and the supermarket”. Then some may have been foraged.

Her story to police changed many times

Oh, and she reset her phone a few times (including when it was in police custody)

Did you download this, or was it an automatic update?

Some people have said it was an automatic update, and it then changed their settings

To be fair you could make three grilled cheese sammiches with that

Wasps are super important, besides the direct pollinators there are those that parasitize various caterpillars, including invasive ones. I do as much as possible to make wasps at home in my area.

Did you mean the Genoese navigator Cristoforo Colombo?

I think it is using Latin vs Greek suffixes

Probably related to why America is named after Amerigo Vespucci.

I see no reason why anyone could properly disapprove of a name derived from that of Amerigo, the discoverer, a man of sagacious genius. A suitable form would be Amerige, meaning Land of Amerigo, or America, since Europe and Asia have received women’s names.

Durov is full of shit

https://istories.media/en/news/2024/08/27/pavel-durov-has-visited-russia-more-than-50-times-since-his-exile-in-2014/

There must be some interesting behind the scenes to this, considering trump has repeatedly threatened their sovereignty in Greenland