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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

While we're at it, is a compass needle's North pole actually a South so that it points North? Or is the Earth's North pole actually South so that the needle's North pole points to it?

(I know that I could look this up, I just want to confuse people.)

[–] Siethron@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

We decided on North long before we discovered magnetism. But the magnet poles of the earth flip from time to time so ehhh.

But that's by design, while this is a convention problem