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Are you familiar with carnival mirrors?
What if a gay person is looking in a mirror? Is the image still straight?
or even when I have a lot of toothpaste dribbling down my chin.
No. It’s going to be completely queer.
As long as you keep a straight face while looking in the mirror.
There was a time that i was really confused as to why a mirror regardless of orientation would change left-hands to right, but not transpose heads and feet (or the like)...
Why does a mirror flip north/south but not east/west then?
Intro to space travel and navigational queues: your up or my up?
Here's a hint: if a mirror truly did not flip anything, then when you looked into a mirror you would see your back, and it also does not "rotate" you. So how can you see your front?
spoiler
A plane has a "normal" (a direction coming "out of the mirror"), and it basically flips things in that direction (front to back). It might help the understanding (and possibly the creepiness factor) to consider just the outer few atoms of your hair/skin that reflects light... and you are roughly seeing that, in the mirror in the same orientation that it actually is IRL if it were pushed into the mirror...
this post was submitted on 19 Apr 2025
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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
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