As mentioned, you need the pad to be hot for the solder to wick onto it. There is missing info in step 1. Step 1 should say to have a slightly wet iron (solder on the iron). You used this molten solder as the heat transfer medium. Hold the iron so the wet solder on it is touching the pad and lead. This gives more surface area for the heat to travel from the iron to the pad. A dry iron touching a pad will have poor thermal connection, so the pad will take a long time to heat up.

Small claim to fame, but the model was my great uncles wife.

Yes, but even better known for the reading of this classic Oscar Wilde children’s book. I had this on tape as a kid, and his voice is so soothing. https://youtu.be/du3L7iSEbI4?si=HYHXonpaL11juHIf

We only know ftx was stealing due to a run on the exchange. Binance could also easily be in the same boat, we just don’t know, as they have not been tested for there liquidity. Also it turns out ftx pretty much had the money, but it just was not liquid.

Also maybe a prompt to this note when you fall foul of this rule would be better than a “I don’t know” amoji.

Why would that be cheating?

I asked if the word was a noun, and it gave me a “don’t know”. I asked if the word was an adjective, and also got a “don’t know”, so I gave up.