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streetlamp post with cardinal directions (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When Google Navigation tells you to "head North-East".

I am a fool who bought an Android phone without a magnetic compass.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I mean at that point just ask what time it is, and then pair that with the knowledge that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, and boom. You have a general sense of direction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ah crap, it's noon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Shadows point north in the northern hemisphere and south in the southern hemisphere

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm in the tropics

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Drop bears attack from the South.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I'm in a place with an ecosystem that can actually be taken seriously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

So it's summer season. Was it supposed to be a bit to the North, or a bit to the south? Or a lot to the north? until when is it considered summer anyway? October? November? It's still pretty hot out there.

The last time that happened, I was trying to hurry back home, before the rain started pouring. And guess what? I couldn't see the sun.