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.

    • Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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      10 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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      10 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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        10 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.)