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  • Agreed.

    I might also argue that those people are all still engineers.

    Engineer just means “problem solver”. Everyone gets paid for solving problems.

    The real question in my head is how far does this go?

    Sometimes the problem is that these burgers need flipping. Protein disk translocation engineers? I’m cool with that.



  • A large faction of engineers, especially software-type engineers, have these types of hobbies.

    I’m sitting here right beside the heirloom quality (compared to most furniture) coffee table I made in my garage with my nearly complete wood shop.

    I make stuff in two ways in my day job. I design something and someone else makes it, or it’s just some idea as software.

    Engineers are a type. We’re just wired differently from most other people.





  • I have absolutely no problem with people using guns in a target shooting type of way.

    Or in other responsible types of ways, like properly managed hunting or where there are things like moose and polar and grizzly bears. Guns are tools.

    I don’t like guns, but I understand. Gun nuts are the problem, as are guns as tools that are only designed to kill humans. I can even understand why people would want to shoot an assault rifle or other weapon of war.

    It just needs to be controlled.

    The worst part is that I would really like to spend an afternoon blowing shit up. Go to someplace fun. Learn about the process. Then push the pluger.

    The problem is that that’s actually well controlled. Enough so that I can’t really find a good way to experience it outside of a construction project in my past.