If you take a board and split it into any amount of pieces, they’re all the same board, just in pieces.
If you take a board and put it somewhere else on the ship it’s the same board.
If you have two boards which were manufactured as they are now, (ie they were cut into their desired shape and considered complete boards), even if they’re the same size and from the same tree, they are different boards.
A board becomes its own distinct entity once cut from its source wood with intention to make a board and is considered complete (ready to use).
Shit like this is why lemmy isn’t growing. Not everyone is a programmer Linux fanatic leftist who supports communism and wants to see spam posts about Kissinger. So if you’re one of the people who downvoted this post or got upset, take a moment to consider why people are annoyed and if this is the kind of behavior and variety that’s going to help us grow.
Imagine being hired to help prevent people from fucking something up, only to fuck that thing up in your first week—not once, but twice. You’d think after the first time it wouldn’t happen again…