Take the lesson, as it’s not hard, but it takes some practice making it seem effortless. With a lesson you’ll learn the basics, and the rest is just practice over a day or two.

If you’re driving automatic correctly, your left foot should be available, and the only thing different with your feet is that your left foot now needs to handle the clutch. This means during (some of the) braking or other times when you want to disengage the drivetrain.

After a little while you get a feel for listening to the RPM, and you begin to shift gear automatically based on the engine sound, or any planned changes in speed/torque.

Oh, and it’s worth noting that most cars are somewhat different when it comes to clutching: Some have the car equivalent of a hair trigger, others are much more lenient. If you’ve gotten used to one car, trying out a different one might be useful.

To anyone in my jury: I just got back from the store and realized I had forgotten something. I’ll live without it.

I’m stealing this.

Yup. I am really not a car person, and I only have basic mechanical skills. But even I could troubleshoot and fix my old car. To be fair, it was a really simple car, most components were easy to access (and replace), and 90% of the bolts were 13mm.

Clutches pearls hyperboles

I think a lot of it is just laziness. I find that my habit of writing nuanced comments in sections to highlight various valid arguments/views tends to attract angry responses to only the first half, as if they only skimmed the first part and ascribing me a standpoint based on that.

Maybe they prefer the work to be mysterious (and important)

Are you really claiming that ALL messages are exaggerated and that thoughtful debate can NEVER exist???

Yeh, I’ll concede that I’m shitty at typing on my phone. Fixed.

Bingo.

I used to work with internet on trains, and the system was relatively simple by today’s standards. Not so much back then, but:

• One carriage had UMTS/LTE and CDMA modems and a router that load balanced between the uplinks. Usually in the restaurant carriage, because there would only be one per train. It also had a short range wireless link in each end for other carriages to connect.
• Each carriage that could potentially be in the same train had wireless clients in each end for connecting “upstream” towards the router.
• All carriages had a wifi radio

On other words, many potential points of failure. And sometimes we’d get tickets such as this sent our way: “Internet doesn’t work”

• No info about which carriage
• No info about when
• No info about where
• No info about which train

Not sure if it’s an actual skill, but it certainly is a trait that fits this question. It’s gotten so bad that I tend to tag people with “Nuanced” if they’ve proven to understand this, so that I know they’re actually reasonable if I see them in a discussion over a controversial topic.

I might as well go first: Basic troubleshooting and reasoning.

I mean, we’re not talking debugging assembly language here. But at least you should be able to reply correctly to the question “is it dead or faulty?” when it comes to a computer. And when a your car has a weird noise, at least try to locate it for an obvious cause such as something rolling around under your seat.

EDIT: And one important aspect of troubleshooting many people don’t get is how to narrow down the problem. Let’s say your wifi isn’t working - have you checked on any other device whether it’s working there? Someone else mentioned binary search which has a lot of overlap with this.

Norway: 25 working days. And the pay is 12% of whatever you earned the previous year.

On top of that there are the public holidays. 2025 list, lazy copypasta:

1 Jan Wed New Year’s Day
17 Apr Thu Maundy Thursday
18 Apr Fri Good Friday
20 Apr Sun Easter Sunday
21 Apr Mon Easter Monday
1 May Thu Labour Day
17 May Sat Constitution Day
29 May Thu Ascension Day
8 Jun Sun Whit Sunday
9 Jun Mon Whit Monday
25 Dec Thu Christmas Day
26 Dec Fri 2nd Day of Christmas

Counting to 1.

Yes, but it’s really cumbersome to us foreigners.

I agree, but this scenario is purely hypothetical and so far not proven to exist. The Caps Lock was invented for a reason.

Norway

Our royal family is mostly into sailing, I choose t9 believe that’s why we don’t have the same issue.

As a noggie, this resonates with me. My ideology is in line with nobody being more important from the Birthe lottery than anyone else. But my pragmatic side says that there are no pressing concerns that justify such a drastic change as abolishing the royal family.

They don’t cost that much, our regent is alright, and his heir apparent is pretty alright too. Might as well keep them around as a unifying symbol and as primary diplomats.

Plus, I have to admit that I like the concept of a lhaving an apolitical person with veto powers, in case some shithead starts something silly. I just hope said veto powers are used if needed.

Source: Met them both when I was in the army roughly 1.3 lifetimes ago.

I’m intrigued. Which country?