I’ve seen those too and really wish I could try one. Maybe I will get to someday.

The machines I ran were cnc, most of them cut flat material but I did work at a place that had tube lasers, which could cut things like pipe and square tube and other structural sections like I-beam or angle.

To cut carbon steel, the machine heats up a small point about .3mm across to a yellow-hot glow before blowing oxygen at it, which burns all the way through the material. If you are cutting something like aluminum or stainless steel generally you use higher power and blow high-pressure nitrogen at the hot spot, which just forces the material out of the cut. The focal point for carbon steel is right on the surface of the plate, and for aluminum/stainless the focal point is 2/3 of the way through the material.

A 4kw CO₂ laser can cut through carbon steel up to 19mm thick, and stainless/aluminum up to 13mm thick.

My wife used to work in a nursing home. I’ve heard a lot about the slings and arrows of end-of-life care, and lifesaving techniques, and no thanks, I’ll just die.

Looking forward to your ted talk.

There are lasers that can cut metal. I used to operate, program, set up, and maintain such lasers.

I know enough about lasers to make them seem boring and pedestrian.

That might be a problem if I drove GM trash.

Bug off, sealion. You aren’t going to accept that telematics antennas exist, therefore you have no idea what you’re talking about and can be ignored.

I bought an ev last week! It’s so cheap and relaxing to drive. And the maintainence is “change oil in the gearbox every 60k miles and dont forget to plug it in when you get home”. It’s not even a really good ev, but its so much nicer than driving a gas car.

I’ve had success doing this with cookies. I live in a rural area and I make the best cookies, and I hand them out to the neighbors when I see them.

One neighbor mows my lawn sometimes. Another one had me use my drone to help find a cow. Another neighbor gardens with my other half.

All of them after about 2020. Are you sealioning or do you live under a rock?

https://www.acg.aaa.com/connect/blogs/5c/auto/how-vehicle-data-is-collected-and-used

Its free for them when its sending your info to them.

I couldn’t wait to get those people out of my life. Why would I want to see them again?

Until you find that station and disabled the mute button.

Some stations disable the mute button. Maybe they like replacing screens.

Later model cars with internet connections or telematics antennas are likely sending info about whatever they can, whenever they can, but such things can be disabled easily enough.

Ive got a 2017 car and a 2018 car, one of them is even electric and basically none of what you say is true until ~2020 model year. That’s about the time th subscription model came out for extras on some european cars.

“Its not perfect! No improvement until it’s pefect! No harm reduction unless it’s perfect!”

This is how one ends up making no progress.

This is the right answer.

Turning 40 freaked me out a bit, but it hasn’t been that bad, outside of the whole “collapsing society” thing that’s been going on the last several years. I have a wonderful wife and kid, chickens, a dog, a cat with a heart full of disdain, and two dorky cars. I have good neighbors, a decent job, I honestly feel kinda guilty for how well I’ve been doing since I turned 40.

Gotta be the Gadget Hackwrench bros.

Then they blew it up a third time.

That’s exactly my fear, that some money-obsessed person may decide safety costs too much.