• Vincent@feddit.nl
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    14 hours ago

    Today’s weird rabbit hole for you: if your (or your children’s) shoelaces keep coming undone, there’s a better knot (which is just as easy) that doesn’t come undone accidentally.

    As this comic shows, it can save your life.

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        13 hours ago

        Yeah it’s a neat party trick to show how fast you can tie them. I still had the same problem of it sometimes coming undone though.

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      11 hours ago

      Why did you link to a knot that’s not the ian knot?

      I used to triple tie my shoes, but they would keep getting untied. After I learned a balanced ian knot my shoes would never get untied again.

      Balanced friction > total friction