I really would have liked being a fly on the wall watching a firee console the firer.

It’s a U.S. thing! Yay! You can buy insurance for it if you do a lot of backpacking but that’s rare. I believe it’s in the five figures for a rescue. But apparently occasionally it can be free if you’re lucky enough to get rescued by the one agency whose name I forget.

This was also my impression, especially after the republican primary debate where they were scarily almost all anti-helping ukraine.

Also, fun fact, your credit can be used to calculate the price you pay for insurance, a required thing even if you outright buy a car or house. So there is no escaping it.

That link looks like the highest max (for self-employed) is still lower than 800€? Am I not reading that right?

Wait is there a market for custom/open-source hardware? If so where?

I do find cooking easier in grams. Just put the bowl on the scale and add ingredients until it hits the number. No measuring cups to wash. But it would life changing if woodworking switched to metric. Doing any sort of exact math is annoying as hell. What is 12’7” divided by 4? How many 1/8” is 0.55 inches?? It is my own personal hell.