More people need to know the cardinal directions. I swear it makes things so much easier. "left and right" but especially "up and down" are horrible descriptive words for giving directions.
"Up & Down" are bad directions, because they are meaningless when you're navigating what is functionally a 2-dimensional grid where you're not allowed to go backward. But "Left & Right" are oftentimes better than cardinal directions, especially when you don't have a compass, or good landmarks by which to delineate which specific way relative to your current direction North is.
( I have been awake for 16 hours, and at work for ten of those, do not make fun of my bizarre diction :kitty-cri-texas: )
Your diction is causing no friction my guy. Left and right have their place, but in a situation where everyone knows cardinal directions it is almost always best to use them. I love it when places purposfully align things with cardinal directions, especially when naming conventions differentiate E/W and N/S
I put the emoji before instead after the text, to let people know what to think before they read, so it will be harder for people to form their own opinion
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Death to America
Yeah, I don't want to keep track of the sun's path
As a worshipper of Zon-Kuthon, I am pledged to live in the shadows
Ironically this is one of the better ways to navigate Manhattan, where maps can be really hard to orient and are pretty unreliable for exact locations because of the GPS distortion from tall buildings
east and west, sure, but everyone says uptown and downtown instead of north and south, at least above 14th st
Death to America
do smartphones have an easily accessible and accurate compass so I can TELL what "east" is relative to me?
:soviet-huff: suncels really be taking directions based on where the sun rises and sets. like wooooooow are u just gonna do what a giant sky fart tells you to do. take the moonpill. this post brought to you by moon gang :sicko-luna:
No, smart phone compasses are pretty shitty. Their GPS can tell what direction you're moving if you move at a brisk walk or faster, though. Any maps app you use is hopefully using the GPS, not the compass.
(Bonus points if you try to use the smart phone compass in a moving car. Yeah let's measure a magnetic field while in a metal cage while moving parallel to a bunch of power lines. That's gonna work.)
cardinal directions are like protracted peoples war. its universally applicable.
and you cannot fight a protracted peoples war if you dont know the character of the people (cardinal directions) this metaphor is getting very stretched
this is the new struggle session. aint nobody who dont know their cardinals a comrade
[also very good catholic communist bit]
I read somewhere once that in some language there’s no word for left and right, so the people who speak it just know off-hand their orientation relevant to cardinal directions at all times.
