https://xkcd.com/2882/

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For decades I’ve been working off the accumulated rotation from one long afternoon on a merry-go-round when I was eight.

      • spujb@lemmy.cafe
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        5 months ago

        holy shit i do this string thing and i get stressed if i get too many winds around a place i don’t like

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      5 months ago

      I don’t have OCD but I definitely have this spinning thing. The worst thing is when you’re unsure if you are short a spin or not, it’s like having a sneeze stuck that won’t come out

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    5 months ago

    We should all start spinning counterclockwise in the north and clockwise in the south to affect the planet’s rotation and create a massive westward tidal wave that will finally take care of Florida.

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    5 months ago

    Ultimatelly it depends on the distribution of the Human population all over the World.

    It’s fine to not to offset your rotations at the end of the day if there are people on the other side of the World in average rotating about the same as you do and who thus offset you rotations with their own.

    Also if some people around you tend to accumulate clockwise rotations and others counter-clockwise ones, it’s all fine as you’re offsetting each other and ditto if your personal accumulation of rotation for each day has an equal chance to being clockwise as it has of being counter-clockwise since you’re offsetting yourself over time (granted, if not in the equator you’ve made days a little longer or a little shorter in between, but all in all it’s fine).

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      5 months ago

      New reason for us to have a keep-left policy on our roads while yanks have a keep-right policy on theirs…

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    5 months ago

    That’s why you should only go to those larger merry-go-rounds where everything rotates in one direction and your immediate region rotates on the other.

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      5 months ago

      If you are doing that by car, then the cloverleaf will add to your spin, not cancel it out.

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      5 months ago

      Three rights make a left. It’s entirely possible to have an unbalanced ratio of left to right rotations in a day

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        5 months ago

        Triangular grid guy: “Guess I’m going back the way I came.”

        Hexagonal grid guy: “What is left. What is right. This did nothing! Nothing!”

        Guy on Penrose tiling: “Get me out of here!”

        (In before: “You have the first two the wrong way around.” Not if they’re walking the edges.)