IMO, electric is so much more convenient, especially corded electric. Just plug it in, and it’s ready to go, every time. No worrying about air pressure or hose length, no worrying about batteries being able to hold their charge or not. It’s as simple as can be and just always works.

(Though, actually, the first one I got had a defective trigger switch on it and stopped working after the first few times. But I was able to return it and get a replacement. Though the replacement looked the same, they’d definitely updated the trigger switch because it felt different to press – firmer and more clicky. And the replacement one has been 100% reliable since then.)

I have to use a 1 meter (over 3 foot) long bar to do that, and it still takes much effort.

I got myself one of these, and now that’s easy. Definitely one of my favorite tools. Even if I don’t end up using it all that often, it saves so much effort and work when I do need it.

Though you’d probably want a 240v version in Sweden.

There are two possible solutions for fucked-up oil drainplug threads:

A) Drill the hole out slightly larger, tap new threads into it, and install a slightly larger drain plug.

B) Replace the oil pan entirely.

Option A isn’t always possible, especially if the oil pan is curvy, very thin, or made of plastic. And either option requires removing the drain pan from the vehicle and reinstalling one with a new gasket. (You don’t want metal shavings getting into the engine when you’re drilling and tapping.)

The kind of mechanic who only needs one wrench: the impact wrench.

I’ve already gotten bubble wrap like this in packages before – years ago.

It is indeed an awful, horrible product.

Oh, they can grasp it just fine.

But they like grasping AIPAC money more.

this place is a vastly worse experience in every way,

Lemmy allows me to upload pictures into comments – reddit doesn’t do that. To put an image into a comment on reddit, you have to host the image elsewhere first.

That’s one tangible, objective way Lemmy is better than reddit.

Seems like the top and highest-voted comment right now is Lemmy or Piefed, both good.

So we kind of are ‘winning’ the post? Though sharing with Piefed.

Because they don’t intend to change anything and they don’t want to get called out on repeating the same exact mistakes.

Motto for my city’s marathon this year was “One city, one race”.

I don’t think they thought through all the possible implications of that…

Even if proven and convicted, none of these rich fucks will ever see any consequences beyond a slap on the wrist fine – almost certainly a fine much smaller than the profits they made through this fraud. And then, just out of spite, they’ll appeal it in a higher court and get the fine reduced or tossed out entirely.

Only two industries left in America: gambling and fraud. And AI is definitely in the ‘fraud’ category.

And what do the disabled people do when the only way to get anywhere is to trudge through the snow?

I used to daily one, sure.

It’s a usable daily, not sure I’d call it a good one. It’s still highly compromised, poorly insulated, loud, prone to roof leaks, etc.

There are still pressing environmental reasons to shame people for driving very inefficient cars when they don’t need one.

Sometimes people want (or need) to reach places faster and easier, while hauling more stuff. And, yes, there are other options – bikes, motorbikes, horses, etc – that could also reach places faster and haul more stuff … but in many cases, the off-road car can still get there faster than those and/or haul more stuff.

I do agree that most of the time, off-road cars are dumb. But in the rare niche situation that you actually need one, it’s really great at what it does. (And while it’s ridiculous that so many people who don’t need them buy them anyway and thus get less efficient, less practical cars than they really need … it’s still good that the off-road cars exist for the few who actually do need them.)

There’s also a disability aspect to consider. Yes, your legs can reach all sorts of places … but there are other people whose legs are, unfortunately, not so capable. For those people, an off-road car can give them access to more places where they’d otherwise never be able to go.

And then there’s snow. For people living in places with lots of snow, but also too rural to have reliable snow plowing, a vehicle with some decent off-road capability might be the only transportation they can feasibly use for significant portions of the year.

Stock jeeps, besides the wrangler and that pickup thingy maybe, aren’t much good off road anyway.

Eh, I’d add old XJ and ZJ models to that list of exceptions as well. Those things could do some shit. Not quite as good as the Wrangler, but they were also much more reasonable daily driver vehicles, too.

The way their eyes are… It looks like they’re both pretending to be happy, but hiding a lot of internal suffering.

Not sure if that was the intent, lol…

but there’s a tendency of focusing more on the work during the semester than in the exam itself

Perhaps this tendency needs to be reversed?

If you have one big exam (or a few of them spread over the year) that it’s impossible to use LLM help for and those exams carry enough weight to make the student fail the class if they completely bomb it … then you’ll be stopping the LLM-cheaters dead in their tracks. Sure, they can be lazy and do much of their coursework that way, but if they’re being lazy like that, they’re likely not actually learning anything, and that will show up during the big exams. And when they fail those big exams and then fail the class, hopefully they’ll learn their lesson about relying on LLMs to get them through classes.