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I finally got my phone to not believe it's in the southern hemisphere for Google Sky Map earlier, that relates and has been a pet peeve for like a month (Full calibration requires tapping yourself in Google Maps for some reason)
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Brawnfire posted:When I was first driving my mom would tell me north is "toward the lake" Did you not know where the lake was? I assume there was only one significant lake in the vicinity? Like, if someone tells me something is "toward the river" from where I am, I know which direction to go because there's only one river they'd likely be talking about from this location.
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Sep 12, 2022 13:51
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She was referring to it like it was a visual landmark for north, which something below horizon level is decidedly not. Yes, by dint of the lake being to the north, I was aware northward travel would also be lakeward. Thanks for the great questions
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Sep 12, 2022 13:56
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north is opposite the sun on midday. also you can just kinda feel it
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Sep 12, 2022 14:20
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The sun being in the south was really loving confusing when I was in the northern hemisphere.
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Sep 12, 2022 14:25
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Milo and POTUS posted:Some people are so bad with spatial poo poo it really is amazing they've made it to adulthood. Talking people who don't know how to get between work and home without GPS I can drive between work and home without a GPS, but I wouldn't be able to tell you which way north is if you held a gun to my head. Cardinal directions just don't stick in my mind. I have to think about them REALLY hard. I do at least know my left from right though, Jesus.
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Sep 12, 2022 14:43
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We don't have a sun in Rochester NY
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im always perfectly aware of my position relative to the north pole, a master of the magnetic field
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In new places I don't always intuitively know north (but if the sun visibly exists I do, of course) but I can't imagine not knowing which way is north basically wherever I am in the city I live. Even if I'm in a part of the city for the first time I must have gotten there from a direction, and I know the cardinals at wherever I came from, so that's just one translation away if there was a turn or something.
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Sep 12, 2022 15:07
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pet peeve: people who don't live somewhere with convenient mountains to navigate by
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Phosphine posted:In new places I don't always intuitively know north (but if the sun visibly exists I do, of course) but I can't imagine not knowing which way is north basically wherever I am in the city I live. Even if I'm in a part of the city for the first time I must have gotten there from a direction, and I know the cardinals at wherever I came from, so that's just one translation away if there was a turn or something. The city where I grew up was laid out in a grid. Back then I could tell you which way was north! But nowadays I live in the suburbs with winding streets, etc. Yeah if I'm on the highway heading north I could tell you that way is north, but once I get off the highway and take a few turns? Nope, sorry boss, I have now lost it! I have a vague idea of where the river is and I know that thing runs north to south, but even it takes a few turns to get there so it's not a sure thing!
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Sep 12, 2022 15:34
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Y'all're looking at the sun?
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Killingyouguy! posted:Y'all're looking at the sun? "No, GIR, the earth sun sets in the west! Staring at it should give me our relative position. Now watch me amaze you!"
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Killingyouguy! posted:Y'all're looking at the sun? Hi I live in the northeast. What's this sun of which you speak?  I kid, but a lot of times it's cloudy and I can't see the thing. Even if I can, the sun doesn't get that high in the sky even in the middle of summer so "rises in the east and sets in the west" are more of a... suggestion.
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RFC2324 posted:pet peeve: people who don't live somewhere with convenient mountains to navigate by All mountains look alike to me
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Milo and POTUS posted:All mountains look alike to me This is peak bigotry
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I'm getting old enough to start thinking about where we want to end up as a final destination. When I was growing up I always loved the weird diy-demihippie relatives' and family friends' plans - stuff like building a cement house out on the canals, building a cabin out on a hillside in a scenic area of the country, or converting the old fishing cabin on wherever lake to be a solar powered permanent home. These were all real things done by lower-middle and middle-middle class people in my family's circle. Be the weird Jim Henson-looking tweed guy (that I always associate with 90s Episcopalianism and the Phantom Tollbooth for some reason) that lives in a treehouse overlooking a valley. Looking around now, all these things are impossible in the US unless you're rich. I hope boomers realize and appreciate how many cool things were available to them and only them - no one before and no one later. And I guess only a subset of them, as an acknowledgement of the racism of an earlier era. So the pet peeve is wanting to do something you've always kind of assumed was possible and realizing that it was never in the cards.
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i would like to live in a remote cottage in the azores
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"Why no cardinal directions??" has been a recurring thing in this thread and comes down to people thinking of directions in fundamentally different ways. If you asked me how to get to the hospital I could tell you the exact sequence of what streets to follow for how long and what turns to make, but there's no way I'd be able to tell you it was north or south relative to current location.
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Dip Viscous posted:"Why no cardinal directions??" has been a recurring thing in this thread and comes down to people thinking of directions in fundamentally different ways. If you asked me how to get to the hospital I could tell you the exact sequence of what streets to follow for how long and what turns to make, but there's no way I'd be able to tell you it was north or south relative to current location. and alot of that is based on where you live. you can always tell the people who live in the same place they grew up because they take navigation so for granted, while people who move around alot understand that how you do it is dependent on how you think about directions and what the local geography is like hence me disliking people not living near mountains. I got soooooo loving lost the first time I lived somewhere flat
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My partner can't remember left and right without putting both of her hands up and staring at them for a bit. Makes for fun adventures on the freeway.
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Animal-Mother posted:My partner can't remember left and right without putting both of her hands up and staring at them for a bit. Makes for fun adventures on the freeway. Hey I also do this! No mnemonics for left and right have ever stuck with me and I consistently get them backwards if I don't do the hands thing. East and West are slightly easier but I still have to focus hard to visualize a compass rose to not get those backwards
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Tiggum posted:Did you not know where the lake was? I assume there was only one significant lake in the vicinity? Like, if someone tells me something is "toward the river" from where I am, I know which direction to go because there's only one river they'd likely be talking about from this location. Where I live, "toward the lake" would be supremely unhelpful for reasons that you imply.
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Animal-Mother posted:My partner can't remember left and right without putting both of her hands up and staring at them for a bit. Makes for fun adventures on the freeway. My ex would do this, too. I've never seen it done before or since, I thought she was unique in this behavior.
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Sep 12, 2022 20:19
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Just write left handed. People will comment on it every single loving time they see you writing something, so you'll never forget which is your left!
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I used to mimic writing to remember which hand was which. After getting married I realized a wedding ring is incredibly convenient reminder, and a lot faster in traffic too.
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how do you function without instinctively knowing your right from your left hand? this feels like it would be a crippling condition
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Even when I'm using Google Maps, I sometimes have to figure out what direction to go in by telling myself (for example) "go the wrong way down a one-way street", rather than "turn left/right". edit: Milo and POTUS posted:All mountains look alike to me Brawnfire posted:This is peak bigotry 
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RFC2324 posted:how do you function without instinctively knowing your right from your left hand? this feels like it would be a crippling condition I know on an intellectual level I'm right handed, but if you told me to pick up a pen then asked which hand it was in, my instinct would be that that's my left hand. I was always taught the right side would 'feel more important', but text starts on one side of the page, toolbars go on that side too, that side 'feels like the important side' bc it's where I instinctually look to start things, surely that's the right side then?
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RFC2324 posted:how do you function without instinctively knowing your right from your left hand? this feels like it would be a crippling condition I get this sometimes and it’s like my brain just freezes up and forgets for a few seconds, it’s weird. I got disqualified from a game of Twister at school when I was 7 because of this, the teacher called me in out in front of the entire class and made me go sit down 
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Hehe, oh no hokey pokey for me, gotta go make an important phonecall. Go ahead without me. (sweating profusely)
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As a freelancer, I get to do that hateful "what do you charge?" dance with every new client. They come from a variety of industries and pay for my work in different ways (monthly retainer, hourly, per unit, etc.), so it's not a one-size-fits-all thing. My latest went so far as to say the budget on this particular project they're hiring me for is fixed, without a lot of room for negotiation. Well, how much do you have in the budget to pay me? Pay me that! I already hosed up once many years ago when I quoted (out of nowhere) what I thought was a royal ransom to a (related) company; they agreed and I was thrilled. Later, someone on their team told me, "We were glad to find you--and boy, you were really cheap!" e: plus now there's a huge currency conversion issue whereby payment in their currency winds up paying me about 30 percent less in my own currency, so if I want to cover my rear end for now, I should charge 30 percent more...until poo poo evens out, I guess? Man, poo poo on this Hirayuki has a new favorite as of 21:50 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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RFC2324 posted:how do you function without instinctively knowing your right from your left hand? this feels like it would be a crippling condition
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RFC2324 posted:how do you function without instinctively knowing your right from your left hand? this feels like it would be a crippling condition I barely function and I can’t remember basic poo poo but I know dean cundy shot Jack and Jill and I’d remember that quicker than which way is left or right
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SLOSifl posted:Hehe, oh no hokey pokey for me, gotta go make an important phonecall. Go ahead without me. (sweating profusely) You couldn’t pay me to get anywhere near the hokey pokey again, too many bad memories 
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CelticPredator posted:I barely function and I can’t remember basic poo poo but I know dean cundy shot Jack and Jill and I’d remember that quicker than which way is left or right hopefully i'll forget this again while still being able to instinctively know directions
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Sep 12, 2022 22:15
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Never forget The man who shot Jurassic park shot dunkaccino https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLuQQH1OHA
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It's probably just me and my own YouTube history but I love that any video even semi-related to Jack and Jill always ends with a recommendation for RLM's video with the SCAM thumbnail.
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Shopping. Having to make decisions about things I don't know anything about, and there's no reliable information about because it's all advertising and anyway no one else has the exact same use case or preferences, and I don't have the money to just buy whatever and see if it works out. And it doesn't matter if I bought this type of thing before because the exact same product is never available again. Really like this but it's worn out? Get another one the same. Nope. They don't sell those any more. Pick one of these three alternatives that are each different, in their own way, from the one I have and hope it's as good. It won't be.
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Tiggum posted:Shopping. Having to make decisions about things I don't know anything about, and there's no reliable information about because it's all advertising and anyway no one else has the exact same use case or preferences, and I don't have the money to just buy whatever and see if it works out. And it doesn't matter if I bought this type of thing before because the exact same product is never available again. Really like this but it's worn out? Get another one the same. Nope. They don't sell those any more. Pick one of these three alternatives that are each different, in their own way, from the one I have and hope it's as good. It won't be. My favorite is when they quietly rename something without anything indicating it. I'm looking at you Frontera. For years I would buy "Frontera Classic Seasoning Chipotle Pepper Adobo," no big deal, I'll just get a new one. Except I couldn't find a new one, I assumed that it was a supply issue. I continued not to find a new one, week after week. I had to do some internet detective work, which was not easy for a simple jar of pureed chipotle and adobo. Eventually I reasoned that they quietly changed the name to "Frontera Chipotle Pepper Adobo Seasoning Grilling Glaze & Sauce Starter." Even changed the color on the label from red to orange. I had looked at that orange jar so many times, and pondered if it was the same stuff or if it would be thicker or sweeter or whatever. My old jar has been long gone at this point, so I can't exactly tell, but I'm 90% sure it's the same stuff. It shouldn't be that difficult to add "new look!" to the label, so morons like me aren't confused about it for two months.
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