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  • aeronmelon@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThey can't both be right
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    2 days ago

    Ironically, the mirror is the one most likely to be misrepresenting your image. In addition to being a flipped image of what you look like, anything but the most perfectly flat piece of glass is slightly distorting your proportions. And some mirrors are built to intentionally distort your appearance to make you appear more flattering to yourself.





  • Lol that movie is not legal advice.

    Not what I meant.

    You were going on about carefully convincing other people to vote not guilty and all I could think about was the process of persuasion that slowly flipped the jury in that movie.

    Everyone needed something different for them to consider, then actually believe, that the defendant might be innocent.
















  • Japan is slowly burying all their overhead lines into the sidewalks. A lot of urban streets look so much nicer now than they did 10 years ago.

    It’s probably no worse in an earthquake than the water mains, which would inherently be a lot more rigid than cables with intentional slack built into every segment.