Use the electricity to power a screen and speakers and sell ad space!

Evil. I like it! Maybe some mandatory ad viewing somehow shoehorned into the unlocking process as well.

Now we do have computers! Think of the models of wheels that could help us improve wheels!

Will he get paid to improve it?

No

Well, now I’m clearly going to have to find a way to monetize the wheel as well.

The wheel has had a number of innovations over the years. The earliest wheels were flat disks of wood that were heavy and slow turning. The Romans invented spokes and metal rims which made them faster, more durable, and gave them more traction. Questions we need answered: What is this wheel in particular designed to do? Is there any way we could make it work more efficiently at its task? Do we value performance over reliability, or vice versa? Etc. Etc.

An ex and I were on a bus trip to a city about an hour away from where we lived while we taught English in Korea. The subject of there being a “subway” in said city came up randomly. She said she thought she had seen one the last time she was there. I had been there more times than she had and said there was no subway. She doubled down. No, she was quite sure she had seen one near the university. I doubled down, I’ve been there quite a few times. There’s no way they have a subway. It’s not even big enough for one! It got pretty heated. This went on for some time. Feelings were hurt.

She was talking about the sandwich restaurant, and I was talking about underground trains. We were both right.

It’d be incredibly unrealistic to have them have any degree of success given the ease of determining their motive and potential targets, and the sheer amount of resources the police would undoubtedly throw at finding someone who was killing oligarchs.

It’s got real “Fra jee lay. Must be Italian” vibes.

Used to be 18 or 20, then I had a kid and 2 became the norm.