EASY WAY TO REMEMBER HOW TO USE YOUR SCREWDRIVER

[a screwdriver is unscrewing a screw by turning counter-clockwise]
The LEFT liberates the screw from its oppression

[a screwdriver is screwing a screw by turning clockwise]
The RIGHT tightens the screw’s place in the social order imposed to it

https://thebad.website/comic/screwdriver_logic

  • Badabinski@kbin.earth
    2·
    3時間前

    Or just use your right hand directly, just like some forms of the right hand rule. Make a loose thumbs up. Point your thumb in the direction you want the screw to go. The way your fingers are curling is the way you turn your screwdriver. If it helps, try to imagine there are arrows pointing out of your fingertips.

    A few years ago, I learned that there are people who can distinguish left and right as easily as they can distinguish up and down. Righty-tighty lefty-loosey as a mnemonic device works for those people. I have never had, nor will I likely ever have, an intuitive understanding of which way to turn a screw. If one part of the screw is moving left, another part is moving right. My brain simply cannot keep it consistently straight. I have to use my right hand in the manner I described every so often. It’s not a hindrance to me (I build stuff all the time and have a little hobby machine shop), and I sure as shit wish I had been taught this method as a child.

    • wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2時間前

      This is an interesting comment. I don’t have an issue with left and right. They as easy are up and down to me. But I have this problem in my brain inverting something. It’s hard to describe exactly. But say I need to fold something or do some set of steps in a 3D space in reverse from what I usually do. I “think” I can do it. I understand all of the operations. But when I actually perform the movements it feels like something doesn’t connect.

      Again, it’s hard to describe what exactly breaks in my brain connected with my actions. But it’s a consistently inaccurate operation no matter how many times I try.

      You’re describing your issue better. But I definitely understand it in a way.

      Edit: I’m gonna leave my dyslexia typo in here. Since its probably related to dyslexia in some way. Actually, my typo probably explains it better as an example than I ever could.