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A completely useful compulsion I have.

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  • MikeOxlong@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Relevant XKCD

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    • bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      According to this I am chaotic neutral, not sure what that means? I aim to balance the weight evenly, when pulling out of the fridge, the carton stays level.

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      • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I use Lawful Good for the same reason. Both keep the center of weight in the middle, but your method is more evenly distributed.

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    • Rokin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      There is always a relevant xkcd.

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    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Chaotic good here.

      Yep, I’m an Autist.

      … Also had a mom with pretty severe OCD, so I always remember that ‘good enough is good enough’, in scenarios like this.

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      • AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Did your mom also have a neverending project of slowly removing the old layers of lead paint from the inside of the house by scraping it off a little at a time with a razor blade?

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    • Pilon23@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      My wife insists on true neutral and I can’t think of a worse way of doing it. I try to counterbalance with lawful good whenever I have eggs, bit I’m always playing catch up…

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I disagree with most of those. Lawful neutral is evil for example, as it imbalances the carton away from the hinge.

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      • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Knowing Randall, I wouldn’t be surprised if he actually got his own DnD group, or conducted some sort of poll, where he actually asked people already in certain alignment categories to describe their own egg carton balancing patterns… or lack thereof.

        That would come closer to the actual alignments self representing…

        But also I have no idea, this is just my head canon now rofl.

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    • amedd69@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Per this example I’m lawful good

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    • Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      TIL I’m true neutral. Always thought I was chaotic good.

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  • adarza@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it’s just sensible. if you take from one end, you run the risk of unexpectedly grabbing the ‘light end’ and accidentally dropping the partial carton on the floor next time you take it out of the fridge.

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    • don@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Bam. Right here. It’s all about that weight distribution, simple as. First time I grabbed a carton by the light end, my stomach dropped. Not having that, no way.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      So always put the heavy (short, not long) end facing the door, so you always grab the heavy end, and never have this problem.

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      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        exactly, set yourself up for success

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    • Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh my god. This is beautiful.

      Thank you, fellow lemites. I have assimilated this autism into my own.

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    • Q_the_misanthrope@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is why I do it. It’s not necessarily symmetrical, just roughly even weight distribution to prevent a heavy side.

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  • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    You try to take the egg carton out of the fridge and it’s unbalanced ONE TIME…

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    • 4am@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The problem now is living with someone who doesn’t do this and then you expect it to be balanced because you take the time and effort to be precise as a show of appreciation for the others around you so they don’t befall the same fate that you now must suffer as you discover the eggs are now in unbalanced and they’d till all over the floor, because they didn’t happen to hyper focus these exact thoughts and how could they be so inconsiderate after you put in so much effort to focus on this to prevent this exact situation

      Bro life is too exhausting wtf

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      • toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I also like to maintain balance in containers as well for just these reasons, but after years of living with people who didn’t share that preference, I learned to lift a container in place, then pull it out. That way I am cognizant of its balance before taking significant risk.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Eggs all over the floor! Especially if the carton is also not quite hooked shut, or slightly creased.

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  • sangriaferret@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do this and I am not austic.

    I might have picked it up from this guy.

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    • laranis@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Yeah, this is a common sense thing. If you don’t balance the mass the next time you pull it out of the fridge there’s a good chance the imbalance causes the carton to twist or to bang it on something on the way out.

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      • hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If your carton can physically do that, then either your carton is paper and not carton, or your eggs have stones inside them.

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    • CuddlyCassowary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I’m not autistic or OCD, and I do this too. It’s just common sense and mildly entertaining.

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    • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Is he Monk’s cousin?

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Huh… I do this too. I like the box to be balanced when I take it outta the fridge.

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  • RBWells@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do also balance the carton. Not always absolute symmetry but don’t want someone to drop them.

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do this because the weight distribution is even so i dint drop the carton when grabbing out if the fridge again

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    • CafecitoHippo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Or you just put the heavy end facing the door of the refrigerator so you always are picking up the heavy end and not the empty end.

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      • Kommeavsted@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        But what if all the ends are stable and there is no empty side?

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      • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I used to do it that way but other people in the house dont so I’ve switched to spreading it out

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  • bejean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do this too for weight distribution, but I don’t make sure it’s symmetrical. I’m worried someone in my family will be surprised by the uneven weight of the carton when they pull it off the shelf and drop it.

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    now kick your egg balancing autism into high gear to start balancing electrons on atoms to discover new elements.

    or balance the number of molecules to create a new type of crystal that cures cancer.

    or…you get the picture.

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    • CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      They clearly don’t get any other picture. No one balances eggs… EVER

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I balance eggs…

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  • UltraMasculine@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I do that all the time. The eggs MUST BE balanced.

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  • sep@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This is the way!

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  • phantomwise@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    YOU’RE A GENIUS ! I take eggs out starting by one end and it always feels super weird to have an unbalanced carton, I’ll have to try your method.

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  • BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I’m positive there is a correlation between ocd and autism. This seems like it’s hinting at a more ocd thing. Still it’s not entirely irrational itself.

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  • Quexotic@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    There’s another way to egg?

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  • Shamber@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Balance is everything, I don’t want the carton to flip on me cause the eggs are placed randomly

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    not autistic but I picked up a very unbalanced egg carton once and realized we shouldn’t have unbalanced egg cartons. it’s just sensible.

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  • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ngl I’m too lazy to do this and just take eggs out from right to left. I always put the carton back in the fridge the same way so the weight is always on the end I grab.

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    • Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Are you a lefty? (Left-handed, I assume you’re politically Left because you’re here)

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      • ViperActual@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Lol nah I’m right handed. But to get the geometry right, my fridge is on the right side of the kitchen, and the door hinge is on the right. So the eggs stay on the left side of the fridge closest to the rest of the kitchen counter tops. So the carton comes out and goes back in the same orientation using my right hand. Meaning I’m always grabbing the heavy side with the eggs.

        I’m still careful anytime I’m grabbing the carton just in case, but so far no dropped eggs in the house

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  • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When it must be inbalanced due to the number of eggs, as long as the extra weight is towards the hinge then it retains the safety benefits of being balanced.

    Since I get eggs while holding the carton I tend to take from the ‘outside’ row first, starting at the ends, and work my way into the center by the hinge. This puts the weight in the hand I’m using to hold the carton and works well even for 18 and 24 count cartons. If I set the carton down before yoinking eggs, I would go for more balance.

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  • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And if you are left with a prime number of eggs?

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    • rooster_butt@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      2 is a prime. I think you meant odd.

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      • xia@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Of course, how could I forget about the oddest prime!

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    • ShortFuse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Always removed in two, there are. No more. No less.

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    • bampop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is why eggs should be sold in packs of 15

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  • seeigel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    How are you going to rearrange the eggs when you take out the next egg?

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    • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      you take out another egg

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    • CalipherJones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Start from the corners one at a time.

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  • majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    T’was the tism m’lord

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  • ModestCrab@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Huh, maybe I should give it a try……

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  • SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Image

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I usually create checker patterns to keep a consistent weight balance and keep box strength strength against external force evenly spread.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I first heard of this a couple years ago on a reddit post. It had never occurred to me to think that an egg carton should be balanced, or to expect an egg carton to be balanced when I pick it up.

    I still don’t worry about the balance, but I get it.

    I don’t even take them out of the same lateral side of the carton, just pick at random

    ooxoxx ooooxx

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    • InputZero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You’ll bring chaos into your house rumba!

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I have a teen and a tween, we are at max entropy already

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  • basxto@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So you always have to take a multiple of two eggs? Well it’s unarguably visually pleasing

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  • aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When I eat grapes, I like to eat two at a time, and end with an even number. I throw away the last grape if it’s not an even number. Why? #JustAutieThings.

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  • raod_guitar@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I always take them out symmetrically and front row first, if possible.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    This isn’t a useless compulsion. It makes the carton easier to handle and less likely to tear and drop.

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  • SaintOwlPizza25@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I remember my sister dropping the last of the eggs casue one side was heavy. She was so upset.

    Why do this.

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