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To build on the good answers from superkret and nemo...
The survival Rule of 3's says that, depending on your situation, you can generally survive:
- three weeks without food.
- three days without drinkable water.
- three hours in a harsh environment (extreme heat or cold).
- three minutes without breathable air, or in icy water.
Finding a way to stay warm and dry at night should probably be your primary concern. Hypothermia kills fast.
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If I say it's safe to surf this beach, Captain, it's safe to surf this beach!
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We should really open a shelter for sad cases like this. Little tankos like that deserve love and attention like any of us. Maybe we could have some land out back where volunteers could play with them once in a while to keep their spirits up and their barrels warm, especially during the cold seasons.
The image is from a [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/) article which took the data from an interesting research paper titled [Who Pays For Your Rewards? Redistribution in the Credit Card Market.](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4126641) The research paper is a good read. (A free PDF of the whole paper is available at the link.) It examines how the use of rewards credit cards results in a massive wealth transfer from low-credit-score customers to high-credit-score customers: >We estimate an aggregate annual redistribution of $15 billion from less to more educated, poorer to richer, and high to low minority areas, widening existing disparities. The Washington Post article attempts to frame the clear north-south split as a result of healthcare issues in the south. That explanation seems too narrow to me. This map looks too similar to maps of poverty and education, and we know health correlates strongly with both of those issues. Edit to fix a sentence fragment. Sorry; it was late and I was tired.
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The solution is ray cats, I tell ya. If the kitty's glowin' you better be goin'.
The 99% Invisible podcast did an interesting episode on this topic, too.
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I remember downloading some "postcardware" back in the 90's. The author requested that you send them an interesting postcard if you liked the software.
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Satabam sounds like a metal band with some Latin jazz flair. I would totally go to their show.
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Your first point is technically correct, but 24-hour days and 7-day weeks are a de facto global standard at this point in history. There are outliers, like the Javanese 5-day week or the experimental 5-day Soviet calendar, but they are few and far between.
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the scheme remains a thought experiment ... too "extreme" to be pursued.
Challenge accepted.
Somebody call Vinci and Bechtel! We're building some damn dams!
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As long as the reactors are designed to sink safely. We lose a fair number of big ships.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/236250/looses-of-ships-worldwide/
>HELENA, Mont. (AP) — An 81-year-old Montana man faces sentencing in federal court Monday in Great Falls for illegally using tissue and testicles from large sheep hunted in Central Asia and the U.S. to illegally create hybrid sheep for captive trophy hunting in Texas and Minnesota. >However, the sentencing memorandum also congratulates Schubarth for successfully cloning the endangered sheep, which he named Montana Mountain King. The animal has been confiscated by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. > >“Jack did something no one else could, or has ever done,” the memo said. “On a ranch, in a barn in Montana, he created Montana Mountain King. MMK is an extraordinary animal, born of science, and from a man who, if he could re-write history, would have left the challenge of cloning a Marco Polo only to the imagination of Michael Crichton,” who is the author of the science fiction novel Jurassic Park.
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You cannot run through a campsite. You can only ran through it.
Because it's past tents.
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I don't understand your comment about no images. !leaky_cauldron@diagonlemmy.social looks like what you want, and I see plenty of image posts there.
If you don't like that community for some reason, you might try resurrecting one of the existing dormant Harry Potter communities:
!harry_potter@diagonlemmy.social
!harry_potter_memes@diagonlemmy.social
!harrypotter@lemm.ee
!harrypotter@lemmy.world
Or, if you really want to start your own community, then by all means do it. Just know that it's a lot of work to get a new one off the ground and build a critical mass of active users.
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New Zealand doesn't exist!
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Assuming I'm still in good health, I want to go on some long bicycle tours. Like weeks or months long. Maybe start with the GAP/C&O Canal as a warm-up. Then La Route Verte. After hitting a few other sections of the US and Canada I would move across the pond to the UK, Ireland, and western Europe.
If I can find a riding partner who is open to dirt then I would really love to do the GDMBR. There are lots of shorter trails that would be fun warm-up trips, too. Unfortunately, I have yet to meet anyone IRL who is crazy enough to do multi-day off-road trips with me.
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One exists, but the mod is AWOL and the community needs some love. If you (or anyone else here in the comments) wants to take it over and bring it back to life, let me know.
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It's a known bug in Sync with Lemmy 0.19.5:
https://github.com/laurencedawson/sync-for-lemmy/issues/539
lemmy.world is still on Lemmy 0.19.3.
>The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years after a surveyor named it for a Confederate general. > >The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted on Wednesday in favor of a request from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to officially change the name Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi, according to a news release from the park. The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.”
Best of luck to Mozilla. Their line on the chart may end soon if they lose funding from Google. Source: [https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm](https://eylenburg.github.io/browser_engines.htm)
This one's an oldie, but a goodie.
Source: [https://birdallianceoregon.org/event/owl-behavior/](https://birdallianceoregon.org/event/owl-behavior/)
Source: [https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/twistwood-tales/70-bar-talk-/viewer?title_no=344740&episode_no=76](https://www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/twistwood-tales/70-bar-talk-/viewer?title_no=344740&episode_no=76)
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Hayez)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kiss_(Hayez))
We're supposed to be done with the heat waves by now, ma'am.
Stolen from [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/BSA/comments/1cngw3i/bsa_membership_graph_1911_2023/). The big drop in the 1970's was supposedly due to a change in the program to de-emphasize outdoor activities. The step down in 2019 was the LDS church cutting ties and starting their own program. If you consider this as a proportion of the population it's an even bigger drop. In 1970 there were about 4.8M scouts in a population of 205M, so about 2.3% of all Americans were in Boy Scouts. Now it's 1M scouts in a population of 341M, so only 0.3% of Americans are in Boy Scouts.
Source: [https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-5yr-poverty-all-counties.html](https://www.census.gov/library/visualizations/2018/comm/acs-5yr-poverty-all-counties.html)
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