Rebuilding a turbo is useful not as a single activity, but because there are a number of transferable skills involved. Way to think deep on that one

Well no, I said meaningful, way to not read I guess.

Where messing with ancient junk fails is because it is obsolete. The person who did it, had to know how to do it already. They don't learn anything new by applying old knowledge to do something useless. The activity lacks the acquisition of transferrable skills and there is nothing useful created at the completion.

You've decided they learned no transferable skills because they must've known how to do it already - what's your basis for that? Or you've just decided this is the case because it suits your argument?

Even if they didn't learn something new, refining an existing skill is not also useful? How do you divine what will be useful in the future?

Let's set aside the project directly, can you also assert they learned nothing about anything as part of this, certainly looks like they did research. Then made a video, no skills acquired or honed there either? You must be stalking these guys.

Let's set aside any personal skill acquisition - you can assert they didn't inspire someone else? Give someone else an idea that has direct practical application? Tickle someone the right way to go mess with something they've been putting off for a while? Jeez, you're pretty confident in your assertions.

Set even that aside, if they're making money out of this that in some way funds someone else, a child or loved one, in an endeavour that contributes to society then that has benefit too.

Setting that aside too, this might just be the thing that makes their life livable enough to let them contribute in some other way.

You've drawn an arbitrary line at what you think is acceptable and hold everyone to your standard - that's phenomenally conceited.

Not sure if you've noticed, but I'm going to die on this hill. You're more than welcome to be up here with me, but you may tire of the activity. I have IBS so I'm on the toilet a good bit, I have the time to keep going unfortunately.

We're right back at the start, you're wasting your "precious" time whinging about someone else's project or passtime in a substantially less than productive way. So much so you're willing to dedicate unlimited time to it. Why is it you're allowed to waste your toilet time? Could you not spend that time learning too, no doubt it'd make everyone else's life better. A hypocrite as well as everything else.

Those 40,000 people in the stands last night (me included) were pretty excited, especially when Tatis and Bogaerts both hit homers to the third floor of the Western Metal Supply building in the same inning. You might be thinking of baseball before the pitch clock, btw.

What’s funny is last night’s game didn’t matter to either team. Padres are already in the playoffs as second wildcard, and Diamondbacks are already eliminated. So, probably by your standard, that game was entirely pointless. The fans still had fun though, and the players still played. It was baseball for the sake of baseball, and that was awesome.

You claiming that OOP didn't improve any skills over the project? That's frankly an insane claim, and I'd say that even if this person knew everything they needed to know to do this (there's no way, I'm certain he had to Google things and troubleshoot), it's still practice. I promise, wiring up anything is a generalizable skill, even moreso than turning a wrench on a turbo imo, this coming from somebody who does their own work on two turbocharged hatchbacks.

Worst case scenario, OOP essentially solved a puzzle. They may have turned junk into fancy junk, but they didn't fucking do it in their sleep. Do crosswords have no value? Do Legos have no value? Here's a hint: it's subjective. It was obviously valuable to them, or they wouldn't have done it. "Society" or whatever comes second.