• @vakbrain
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    2 hours ago

    Negatrons and Positrons would have been so much better names

  • @[email protected]
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    125 hours ago

    Unrelated, but what is the origin of this image? I feel like I’ve seen it often over the years and don’t know where it came from originally.

  • @[email protected]
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    768 hours ago

    Relevant XKCD:

    Title text: Sure, we could stop dictators and pandemics, but we could also make the signs on every damn diagram make sense.

  • @[email protected]
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    46 hours ago

    this would also be society if counterclockwise and clockwise were swapped. it’s the universal way to talk about 2d rotations but pretty much nothing (except a clock) ends up turning clockwise. it didn’t have to be this way

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      3 hours ago

      Ummm… Have you ever used a screw? Bottle cap? “Right tighty, lefty loosey”? A car wheel when going forward? Literally 99% of things tighten clockwise.

      You’re the person people have to say “no, your other left” a lot to, aren’t ya?

      • @[email protected]
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        11 hour ago

        Just wanna say, a car tire moves a different direction based on your perspective.

        If you’re looking at the driver side of the car, the tires move counterclockwise, whereas if you’re looking at the other side, the tires appear to rotate the other way.

        Perspective changes a lot of things, it’s pretty cool.

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    16 hours ago

    I recognise the grandstand from the Marylebone Cricket Club, but they tore down the rest of the stadium. I guess that’s a good thing?

  • Mike D.
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    05 hours ago

    Electrons are considered positive in cars.