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   David August (davidaugust@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 19-May-2025 18:55:17 JST David August

   Handy bilingual mnemonic for tool use. 🪛🔩

   #English #Spanish #screw #unscrew #tools #mnemonic

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     Stefan Baur 6 * 💉 (farbenstau@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 02:39:37 JST Stefan Baur 6 * 💉

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     @davidaugust German: "Mit der Uhr geht's zu" (_clo_ckwise _clo_ses/tightens). Sadly, no political pun here.

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     Passwordsarehard4 (passwordsarehard4@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 02:39:37 JST Passwordsarehard4

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     • Stefan Baur 6 * 💉

     @farbenstau @davidaugust I was training a 24 year old at work. It took him two weeks to admit he didn’t follow my directions because he didn’t know what “clockwise” meant. When I told him “the direction the hands go on a clock” he told me he never noticed they all go the same way. No, he could not tell time with a “arm clock”.

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     fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:59:24 JST fu

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     @tml @davidaugust word
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     Tor Lillqvist (tml@urbanists.social)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 21:59:25 JST Tor Lillqvist

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     @davidaugust Pet peeve: I dislike calling directions of rotation "right" and "left". It doesn't mean anything, unless you assume it refers to a specific section of the rotating thing. But why should it? Why is it relevant to look at specifically the upper part of a rotating screw head and see whether it moves right or left?

     The correct terms are clockwise and counter-clockwise.

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     Bruce Elrick (virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 22:00:24 JST Bruce Elrick

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     @davidaugust
     Righty oppressy, lefty liberty?

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