Wireless Redstone: The Illusion Of Technological Progress

Engineering's greatest soap opera unfolds in your toolbox daily. That Torx head—the "fan favorite"—gets all the glory while Phillips—literally designed to slip and strip—continues its reign of mechanical terrorism. Meanwhile, the hex "normal person" is just trying to hold things together while surrounded by chaos. Don't even get me started on that flower-shaped nightmare that appears exclusively on devices you need to fix at 2 AM with no compatible driver within 50 miles. The empty square? Classic engineering cliffhanger—they ran out of ways to torment humanity.

Nothing quite captures the engineering hierarchy like watching a veteran mechanical engineer reduced to a 3D printing servant. Left panel: Fresh-faced electrical engineer with the audacity of youth. Right panel: The hollow-eyed mechanical engineer who's seen it all, now spending a decade of expertise printing boxes because someone couldn't be bothered to route cables properly. This is the circle of engineering life - where expertise meets arbitrary design changes at 4pm on a Friday. The mechanical engineer's soul has left the chat, while the electrical engineer blissfully creates problems for others to solve. Engineering collaboration at its finest!

Using MATLAB for basic arithmetic is like bringing a nuclear submarine to a bathtub race. The excessive computational power makes even the simplest task feel like you're performing digital acrobatics. Graduate students worldwide know that feeling of writing 47 lines of code just to calculate what Excel could do with a single cell formula. But hey, at least your advisor will be impressed by all those semicolons.

From glass tubes to godhood in five easy steps! The meme perfectly captures computing's evolution from clunky vacuum tubes (where calculations took longer than microwaving a potato) to transistors (smaller but still dumber than a pet rock) to integrated circuits (finally getting somewhere) to microprocessors (now we're cooking with gas!) and finally quantum processors, where apparently we'll all transcend physical reality and become cosmic brain entities. Moore's Law wasn't just about doubling transistors—it was about our brains getting progressively more enlightened with each hardware upgrade. Can't wait for quantum computing to turn us all into interdimensional beings! My current Intel i7 only lets me astral project on Tuesdays.

This is the cybersecurity equivalent of putting a bike lock on thin air! The "Security Torx" gate protects absolutely nothing - it's just standing there in the middle of a path with open space on both sides. It's like when your IT department makes you change your password to include "one uppercase letter, one number, and one hieroglyphic symbol" but then writes the server room code on a sticky note by the door. Peak security theater at its finest!

Someone's solar science is a bit... eclipsed by misinformation! The comment claiming solar panels would "drain energy from the sun" and make it "burn out" in 400 years is peak scientific confusion. Solar panels don't siphon energy from our star like some cosmic vampire - they simply capture a tiny fraction of the photons already streaming toward Earth. Our sun produces about 3.8 × 10^26 watts continuously and will keep fusion-partying for another 5 billion years regardless of our puny human infrastructure. The real cherry on top? The moose walking on what appears to be poorly photoshopped "solar roadways" that were never actually viable technology to begin with. Double scientific facepalm!