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xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch (thelemmy.club)
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xkcd #3276: Recursive Trucker's Hitch

Title text:

As if the americium smoke detector incident wasn't enough, now nuclear regulators have ANOTHER reason to worry about the Boy Scouts.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3276/

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[–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

sailing is such a fun subject because it's so fucking old and historically important that everything related to it is a thick soup of utterly inscrutable jargon

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Nautical terminology is PRECISE, and for very good reasons. You don't want to be in the middle of a gale and ask for the round thingamagig on the right side, to pull or something. That is why you use starboard instead of right. Starboard is the right when looking at the bow. "To the right" on a boat can mean your right, my right, etc.

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