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Mortise and tenon joinery is good, but pocket screws with glue is also extremely strong.

Dowels, when used with actual wood (not press board) is also plenty for this application.

Looking at this design, the main issue is racking forces, which M/T joints may hold up slightly better to, but a thin sheet of 1/4" plywood stapled or glued on the back and sides would also lock this into place and prevent racking.

Really, this design is probably fine, but there's a handful of details that aren't shown, and would be critical to the success.

Never heat gun PVC, get it JUST a little too hot and your lungs are shot forever.

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If there are bending forces on the object, the middle of the structure basically doesn't add any strength. If it's in tension or compression, it does.

For this challenge, with the 50g weight limit that has bending forces, a hollow object is always stronger. If he filled in the middle, it would add more weight for very little additional strength.

You mean Dr. Jan Itor?

Great option

Disagree, drill drivers are cheap these days. Don't lock yourself into an expensive battery platform yet.

Don't get anything more than a Ryobi drill and see if you need a good one, once it breaks, then you can decide what color you will use for the next 20 years.

Get cheap tools. Buy everything at harbor freight. Don't splurge on anything that's not a safety hazard (get a quality ladder, but buy cheap screwdrivers)

If the tool breaks, buy a quality one to replace it.

Project Farm is your friend to find the cheap option, and the quality option.

Edit: Substitute Princess Auto for Harbor Freight, as you're in Canada.

We already got one. He was played by Daniel Radcliffe.

I did extensive research and found nearly no factual errors in the movie.

This is the technology community. If you're not interested in reading about new and groundbreaking tech, maybe you should block this one, start a consumerism community, all about stuff you can buy.

The rest of us are quite happy reading about potential ideas and research that may or may not become something profitable.

There's a lot to be said for the late 90's. Post Cold War, but pre 9/11.

It's not perfect for everyone, especially if you're LGBT+, but it's got a lot going for it.

VERY specific people would have been better off born 20 years ago.

The vast majority of people would be better off today.

You can imagine in another 20 years that would be different, but almost everyone is better off today than they were 20 years ago, and they will be even better 20 years from now than today.

Specific groups may have a harder time in one time period or another, but society at large is getting better at the world scale over the long term. Hope still exists.