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Yes, something like that. I've undestood that snap-on is just for tools while Würth does a crapload more than that. You can get shoes, gloves, jackets and pretty much the whole wardrobe from them. And then there's würth electronics (or something like that) where you can get vaious kinds of common electronics components and so on.

I've seen some shit. But I'm also old enough to not care. I'm a freaking system administrator, not a surgeon. No one has died if their email is unreacable for an hour or two. Shit happens, then you deal with it and that's all. Difference between a junior and a seasoned veteran is that old guys with battle scars is that the seasoned guy knows that something will break, shit will hit the fan and everything might turn up into a chaos and plan accordingly. Juniors will either endure and learn along the way or crumble.

When you've been in the business for few decades it's not that big of a deal to cause an outage. You know how to fix your shit, you know how to work with a severely crippled environment and you know how to build the whole circus from the ground up. And you also know that no matter how disappointed or loud the C** suits are, they'll calm down once you get them out of the hole.

Just today I had a meeting with discussion on what to do if some obscure edge-case ruins our ~5k users and few continents wide AD tree. Sure, if that would happen, it would most definetly suck balls to get back up and it would hurt the company bottom line and it would mean few nights with very little sleep, but no one would still die and our team is up to the task to build the whole crap out of nothing if needed. So, it's just business as usual. But all of us have been in the business long enough that we know how to avoid the common pitfalls and we trust eachother enough that should the shit hit the fan in the big way we could still recover the whole situation.

And still, even if the whole thing burns up in the flames, I've got the experience and skillset under my belt which will be valuable to some other business entity. I just don't care if the main office building is on literal fire. It's not my problem to fix immediately and when it is it's still just work. I put in the hours they pay for me and do whatever I can but when I'm off the clock the employer doesn't really exist in my world.

To be honest, their stuff is pretty damn good. It's a bit like Knipex or Festool. Pretty much the best quality tools around, but their pricing is also premium. No matter the brand, they are really good, but not all of their stuff is really worth the money, but if you're buying with a company credit card it doesn't really matter either.

For a home gamer it's of course different scenario, but for a company it's nothing to throw 100+€ for a side cutters since you still need to pay for someone to go and pick them up from a retailer and when you pay the premium they last for a very long time no matter how badly you abuse them so you don't waste time and money on replacing stuff.

And würth has reasonable priced tools as well. I have serveral utility knives with break away blades, welding gloves and other stuff around in garage. I could get the cheaper ones too, but even if würth (or knipex) ones are often way more expensive than competition the quality is just so much above anything else that coughing up the cash is really worth it.

Without any expertise, I'm going to say that minuscule amounts of radioactive nickel from your CR2032 replacements compared to wasted lithium on pretty much every battery your all current devices have plus single use LiIon-cells on e-cigs, single use toys and whatever is a pretty good improvement. In 100 years or so all that nickel is converted to copper with small amounts of radiation and heat as byproducts, in today's technology, is pretty good.

And the radiation is beta-negative. I'm not an nuclear physicist, but if I'm not mistaken your common 3032 cell has enough metal to shield pretty much all of the radiation. Just don't eat them and maybe stick with li-ion on your wrist watch.

Würth. I'm sorry for your wallet.

You are correct, this is definetly not that big of a deal right now. My license is already valid across EU. However, the process for this has been going on at the background for quite a while and the end goal is to improve road safety and have common rules in all of EU. Increased road safety is obviously a good thing and it also helps people to move around if they want to, so even if it's not the biggest problems at hand it's still improvement across the union.

They more likely use turnips.

Neither can Ukraine.

True, but Ukraine has played this game pretty well in my opinion. They keep negotiations going, speak nicely about the deal in public and at least in here media represents Ukraine as willing and open of discussion about whatever deal Trump suggests, no matter how bat shit crazy they are.

I mean, Ukraine isn't stupid enough to sign off all of their wealth to USA or surrender land without any significant gain. But they can now at least say that they're willing to discuss about the matter while Russia just bluntly rejects the proposals.

Majority of European fighter jets depend on US suppliers for spare parts and maintenance for a start. Same with helicopters. Also, the Europe as a whole has problems on delivering even the most common artillery shells to Ukraine in quantities they would need.

So, as I mentioned, our military is well capable of stopping Russian invasion at the border, but holding it on the long term requires allies and co-operation. Also, size of the population has very little to do with military capabilities, which was proven by Finns a few decades ago and currently in Ukraine.

Another Finnish conscript here. I didn't vote for the guy, but he's been pretty good on his job so far. He understands that the orange one has 'special needs'. And this point of view has been widely reported and discussed too.

USA, like it or not, is still a (too) big part of effective defence around here as majority of Europe has forgotten what kind of country Russia is and just left their military strenght go down the drain. Our own army is pretty capable of stopping the Russian attack should it happen, but in the long run we need allies and at least for now USA is one of them.

So, if maintaining that relationship requires some pandering of that orange toddler, then it does. There's bigger things in the play than showing off with national pride. I don't like the situation either, but that's just a part of the game and we need to play with the cards we have.

At least so far 'speak nicely and carry a big stick' -approach seems to work. European stick just is not big enough at the moment that we could rely only on that. And I hope that it changes pretty soon, but it takes a while to change continent wide mindset.

Fair point, but basic physics has been a part of our education program for at least 60 years. Also for few years the 'exchange priced' or 'market valued' electricity has been somewhat popular and on the news, which adds up to the general understanding as if you know your stuff it means quite literal money as your bills are smaller. So, maybe 'absolutely everyone' is a bit of a stretch, but in general the majority of adult people understand the concept.

And also a ton of common folk understand it at least a bit on a deeper level as basic physics is included to studies beyond elementary school regardless on what you study. Sure, not everyone understands (or cares) how 3 phase AC in here adds up to 400V or why you need to have 2,5mm² wires for 16A fuse, but it's still pretty common that people, specially in a separate house, understand how you can only pull 2300W out of a 10A circuit or 3600W from a 16A one (10 and 16A being the most common fuses in a household in here).

Vic 20 -> C=64 -> few 386/486 units -> AMD K6-2 and a ton of stuff after that. And maybe something in between.

And now I'm writing this in my garage computer which I picked up from a e-waste pile at work few years back and it has more computing power than pretty much all the systems combined I had before being 18 years old. And when we (as a family) got our first "mobile" phone it was hardwired to a car electronics since they took 'a bit' more power than the supercomputers we carry in our pockets today (obviously Li-ion batteries were not a thing either, but that old Motorola NMT450 took a crapload of power by todays standards).

It's been a wild ride so far. My grandparents were on top of the technology when they got the first landline phone around the neighborhood (I'm living in a rural area so it was not a new invention back then by any stretch) and now I can just yell to a entity in my palm to show me pictures from another planet or a high definition live video from Earth orbit.

And still I'm somehow trying to teach basic tehcnology concepts to both my parents and my kids. It's bizarre to try and explain about benefits of touch typing to a 16 year old who thinks it's pretty much impossible for anyone to type out an essay at school containing 2000 words in an hour (33wpm)...