• Metostopholes@midwest.social
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    2 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.

  • affiliate@lemmy.world
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    19 minutes 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