chapotraphouse

I live in an old house and I was getting a mini-split for AC installed. I wanted to do ceiling cassettes, and the contractor told me it should be fine.

However, once they got up there and measured, it turns out that the 2x4s in my 115 year-old house are actually 2"x4", and so the cassette wouldn't fit unless they cut into the joists. We went with a different solution. But yeah just another example of enshittification, imo.

Maybe I’m being unreasonable but you shouldn’t be able to call something a 2x4 if your only justification for doing so is tricking and confusing people.

First time I ever actually measured a 2x4:

"WTF is this this shit?!"

This was the only part of twin peaks that didn’t make sense

this naming system is stupid as fuck. what are these sizes called in metric?

https://youtu.be/LEOnIpO7Xgw