Jethro, god of processed corn snacks.

i already own my tools though.

IT makes me wonder…

First of all one has to remember that the ancient Greeks weren’t as united as we think of them now; I’ve heard it described as “a collection of city-states that mostly spoke the same language and worshipped some of the same gods.” But even within that, or swapping ancient Greece for ancient Rome…how much innovation really took place during those eras? How many old men died in the same world they were born in having seen nothing of note change about society?

Meanwhile, just look at the United States Navy. In 200 years we went from building ships like the USS Constitution to the USS Monitor to the USS Nimitz. There were Americans who read about the invention of the airplane in the newspapers who also watched Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon live on television. Those events were only 65.5 years apart.

How would a polytheistic religion full of “gods of something” cope with or support that level of progress? I associate the industrial revolution almost exclusively with North America and Western Europe who were and are related flavors of monotheistic.

Doing a quick Google search, apparently Silenus was the god of beer and drinking so he’d probably get custody of whiskey and other spirits unless specifically delegated to another god like wine.

It’s kinda funny, the 2 meter amateur radio band (in the United States this is 144 to 148 MHz, right in the middle of VHF) is 4 MHz wide. If you add up ALL of the available bandwidth allocated to amateurs from 10 meters down, it adds up to less than 4 MHz. The 70cm band is tens of MHz wide.

More practical for hobbyists to launch satellites. Which some have. There are amateur radio satellites in orbit.

I furnitured!

I built this planter box, along with one three times as long as this one, out of cedar

This little table for my porch out of some lovely local white oak. It’s a humble little thing but I’m rather proud of it because it’s the first project I made with genuine mortise and tenon joints, some chopped by hand with a chisel.

A plant stand, also out of white oak. This one has slanted and tapered legs, and Avril Lavigne wrote a song about it. Why DID I have to make things so complicated?

And two bookcases from birch plywood and white pine. I was particularly careful planning this one, and managed to get the carcass and shelves of each bookcase out of a single sheet of 3/4" plywood, though it does mean the grain direction on the fixed bottom shelf doesn’t make sense.

So I think the term “enshittification” has been latched onto and goatse’d by the community at large to the point people are now using it to mean “things getting worse because business.”

I am pretty sure everything is getting worse because business.