Maybe glucosamine, it’s pretty cheap and accessible.

Head hunters are great if you're at the right place at the right time. But applying to them is a more difficult ROI than passively getting lucky.

Thanks for the recommendation, hiring.cafe seems pretty good on first look and just made an account. I like how their mission is to "kill" indeed and linkedin. Had to revisit this thread after seeing it yesterday to refresh my memory after initially going to "coffeejobs.com" which is... not the correct destination.

“Half solution” seems like an odd way to say tool?

“tool” seems like a good way to describe a half solution. We use and combine various tools and our own skills to do what we want

I always just want to know how much of X or Y is on hand when I’m physically out and at the grocer. You can just buy another but that usually leads to folks storing 5 bottles of ketchup or whatever

Can you possibly elaborate on the timing belt in oil? I’ve only known of dry timing belts or lubricated timing chains/gears

> Can you possibly elaborate on the timing belt in oil? I’ve only known of dry timing belts or lubricated timing chains/gears

Ford's recently designed engines were designed with a timing belt internally that operated in an oil bath.

They are currently walking that decision back and attempting to make it look as if it wasn't planned obsolescence (dry cambelt engines or proper timing chains means that the engine would last almost longer than the person who bought it if they did the regular maintenance. A cambelt that cannot be changed because its internal means that there is a limit to how long the engine would last.)

Cheap and poor decision by a company not acting in good faith. Right up there with the globally popular Ford Ranger whose oil change needs to be completed in under 10 minutes because thats how long it takes the oil pump to drain residual oil and it has no self priming capability, so itll run dry and seize the engine despite the oil sump being full.

> Ford's recently designed engines were designed with a timing belt internally that operated in an oil bath.

Is not designed by Ford. Those are (most probably) the same as the infamous Puretech motors developped by PSA. Is a Peugeot car disguised as Ford (or a Ford car with a Peugeot motor if you prefer). Several brands use it, under different names. Most probably they bought them under a big discount.

That motor was durable, tested and approved, But... Europe said: You must adjust this and that for the new legislation, and the change made a little bit of gasoline to mix in the oil and reach the belt. Problem: Gasoline eats rubber over time, and the timing belt is made of rubber.

The real problem was not so much that the timing belt could root entirely and break, leading to a catastrophic failure.

Much before that, the pump that sucks oil into the motor gets slowly clogged with rubber bits, triggering a "pressure oil failure" warning. Also the computer reacts to the slow lubrication reducing the power to protect the motor, so you have a car with random power failures and alarming warnings. If you ignore this, eventually the filter collecting rubber could block entirely the oil to reach the motor. And then your motor is destroyed in a car that is basically new.

Nobody suspected that when Peugeot sold thousands of cars. A few years later, many cars started to die or require expensive reparations. So they warned on the manual that the belt must be changed often and this avoids entirely the problem. Second problem: Only car freaks follow the manual specifications. Every common owner expected the timing belt to last for the same as a traditional one (160,000 to 240,000Km or so), when it must be changed at 60,000 or so. Changing the time belt is not cheap and they ignored the warning as a grabbing cash trick.

For a while, common people were still buying cars with big discounts that mechanics didn't wanted to touch with a teen foot pole. Spanish influencers started to rebrand the pure-tech motors as pudre-tech, (that means in Spanish it-rots-tech), and the term slowly reached the public opinion.

Even following the specifications, you are stuck with a car that is more expensive to maintain.

Peugeot fixed the issue changing the belt material, but the reputational damage was done and was eventually absorbed into Stellantis, a superbrand created with Chinese, Italian and American investors.

If your car uses gasoil you don't have this problem. Only gasoline.

Certain models of the Mk3 Ford Focus (2011-2018) have a wet timing belt.

Needs changing at 100,000 to 150-000 miles or every 10 years.

The 10 year service is a spendy one.

To be fair mentioning Nike is kind of a straw man here — unless being explicit with the model/style. They manufacturer to many different price points, more than an auto maker.

> so it will only stay in this business if a considerable number of people buy this. Vote with your money.

How many billions of dollars have been wasted on the Metaverse?

The gig workers are still suckers because gig work sucks. But yes the service is most sensible for higher paid consumers.

...only because the company is committing wage theft to subsidize costs. I don't think it feels reasonable to say "Your employer has to meet certain wages, but they didn't so you're a sucker".

If you can't pay the wage you're required to then the whole house of cards starts coming down because now you can't create a large enough network to meet demand, which shrinks demand, which increases costs, which makes it accessible to fewer and fewer high paid consumers.

Like a lot of capitalism "it's better than starving to death in the streets" is the appeal of the job and nothing more. Anything else is a paid message brought to you by UberDoorHub.

I'm from the Bay and no longer live there but for how massive the region (functionally: Santa Rosa to Santa Cruz; SF to Antioch+) is the public transit is pretty good. Obviously not perfect and a lot of room for improvement.

I've spoken with old timers who would talk about the days before the Richmond-San Rafael bridge, to name one piece of the puzzle.