edit: Thank you to all who answered! I’m amazed at how many ways you came up with to answer this.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    It’s because left/right are physical relationships that are relative to YOU. Up/down are relative to the ground (ie, really, center of the earth).