Bad_Engineering

There’s a huge difference between someone putting a webcam on their house for personal security and an AI driven face tracking camera that purposefully records every person that wanders into its field of vision being setup in a public park and on every street corner in the country.

I was thinking more in the sense of the villain giving their little speech to a protagonist that hasn’t ever killed anyone that “If you kill me then your just like me, you’ll be equally bad even though I’ve killed thousands and my death would actually be of benefit to the world.”

That trope in movies always bugs me. It’s such a stupid false equivalency.

I used to work as an appliance repair woman. It’s totally doable for the average person. The only specialty tool you may need is a very large pair of snapring/spring pliers. The gasket that seals the front of the machine to the drum uses a large wire loop connected with a 2-3" long spring on the ends to secure it. If the drum is not spinning smoothly then either the spindle bearings have failed or the spider/flange that attaches the drum to the spindle has broken. Either one are fairly simple to replace. What model washing machine do you have?