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[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

My local hardware store has one of these signs. I managed a different hardware store about a decade and a half ago, and I also made a very similar one. (Mine was nicer, and routered out of a scrap piece of plywood.)

You would be amazed at the number of times we'd get asked that question. Typically it involved a story along the lines of, "Well, my wife started putting up her end of the Christmas lights at one side of the house, and I started putting up my end at the other side of the house, and we met in the middle, and..."

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

I don't understand how people need help making a cable like that. AFAIK It's a length of 3 wires wrapped in insulation, and two plugs. It's a hell of a lot simpler than ethernet.

Some older things might genuinely need that kind of cable, like a leaf blower or something

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I don’t understand how people need help making a cable like that.

You underestimate the sheer stupidity and lack of education of the majority of the American public.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

People voted for trump. Clearly there are plenty that don’t see why this is a bad idea.

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