As soon as that prominent figure started talking about helping the lower classes achieve economic equality (or even just freedom), he was assassinated.

Scratch is an example of a simple programming language that could be taken pretty far, but it’s often dismissed as a kid’s game.

Or even things like IFTTT, or Apple’s Automator app (formerly called just AppleScript) that gave vaguely python like tools to less/non-programmers.

I worked on a programming tool to bring beginners from a block language like scratch up through C or Python, but we couldn’t get enough funding to finish it and google just looked at us and tried to poorly rip it off (made raising funding to compete with them even harder).

Maybe it fits in the happy meal box.

LoRa can get pretty far, but we’ll also be returning to the days of modem speed data.

You sunk cost fallacy, plus even worse is the unknown unknowns buried in a codebase no current dev (human or not) built.

$4k gets a couple more beaters off marketplace. But you gotta know what to look for and live in a state lax intersection rules.

I’m not generally a fan of single use tools, but we keep one of these around from the 70s.

The EV conversion guys like me are all rubbing our hands together to get our hands on cheap donor teslas to stick in much cooler old cars.

Yeah whenever I need lumber I plan to set aside at least half an hour to dig through the piles to find OK boards.

If you went over to the components drawers they’d bolt though, they didn’t know how to answer any questions about that stuff and also knew you were too cheap to buy a cellphone (I’m talking the last 10 years of the store or so, when they tried to be sprint stores or Verizon or whatever).

Can just switch to the next instance. There are dozens!

But seriously fucking the tankies.

We need a urinal cake company to step up and start selling grave shaped cakes to piss on.

Could start with Kissinger, or even preemptive graves for Trump or Musk for the less patient.

Maybe Cards Against Humanity could sell them.

How big are the trash piles, and how rashy is your kids ass?

We play the long game of doing the easier chores (or that one of us don’t mind as much), so that when the stinky ones come up we can bargain about it. Like normal lazy parents.

I think that’s also part of the joke. As the protagonist continues to do normal things like eat dinner at a restaurant.

That’s not from shrinkage (well the 1/16 might be, especially newer fast heated junk at the Homely Despot). It’s from when they mill the rough sawn 2x4 down to “finished size”. You can buy actual 2x4s, but they won’t have the nice planned surfaces or beveled edges.

I’m not wondering why it’s that sized, I’m annoyed why they insist on calling both rough saw and finished items 2x4s.

Says the guy was a compliance specialist, maybe he was hoping to fix that problem.

And I also forgot about the Mainers and their two-by-faws

Gotta keep a spare bottle or 2 around just in case.

Yeah, for cooking into shoe leather and slathering in catsup before spending the next few hours on the shitter tweeting nonsense words until you manage a single bunny style bowel movement.

What’s even more annoying is that a 2x4 (pronounced two-by-four) isn’t 2 by 4 inches. It’s 1.5 x 3.5 (sometimes even a 1/16 under).

It’s all because of some unfinished lumber bullshit, but it’s still not as confusing as pipe and hose fitting sizing at least.