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qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

As a European:

Struggle to find a craftsman to do any small work.

Work really needs to get done.

Go online, find how it is done.

Go to some hardware store and buy everything and a couple of extras, just for good measure.

Start the work.

Break or destroy whatever the cause of the problem.

Realize the original work was already badly done, is too old to be safe or was half assed together by some lazy person.

Go back online, find modern solution.

Go back to store, buy extra materials.

Break things even more.

Replace bad original work with modern solution, creating in the meanwhile a solution to conected bad work you can’t solve to the work you’ve done.

It works and it is safe.

Eventually, one of the crafts worker calls back.

Sees the work you have done: “Why did you bother doing all of that? You spent too much money.”

Describes shoddy solution, like what was before the damage you solved by yourself.

“Fuck my luck.”

End note: I faced this when fixing a sewers issue and a renewal of an electrical circuit.

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