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lilsolar @sh.itjust.works

1y ago

Northern star gang

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You guys are using the compass app?
- Get a load of this guy, just walking around all aimless
  
  How does he even find maidens.
  
  I just use the sun and stars, and occasionally the moss on a tree.
- You aren't?!
- It's great for field work, with documenting specimen locations with coordinates and documenting transect directions.
- What's even the reason to have a compass without these hot and tasty radioactive markings?

Couldn't do it, my life would immediately go south
- How would you even know??

Big Dipper gang ! * '* * * * * *
- Hey, get that bare bear ass out of here or at least warn with a nsfw tag or something

I haven’t touched the compass app in two years but knowing me I’d open it by accident during the two days
- Haven't even thought about it being a thing since the iPhone 5. And I'm pretty sure it hasn't been a standard app for years now.
- If youre on android go and disable it

I love these
You get 500mil but you have to live in this mansion
- You get a trillion dollars but you have to spend the rest of your life breathing air 😱

I haven't used a compass in years except to prove I knew which direction the building was in for my boss.
Knowing when specific stars are at night and where the sun is (where shadows point) will tell you where north is. Knowing this stuff is why I can't really get lost. One time I tried but even in dense forest, the shadows never lie
- PSA, never go into a dense forest thinking "I can't get lost".
  
  You can get lost in the middle of nowhere but I always wonder why finding a direction seems to be such an endeavour for most/so many people.
  Sun rises in the east, sets at the west. Face the sun, on your left is west, south is behind your ass.
- In my city it's even easier, there's a friggin huge volcano right to the west, the city it's built at its foot. Just look at the volcano and left is south, right is north
  
  Where you at? Iceland? Italy? Give me a hint!
- And if you don't know which direction to go just go downhill. It has the highest chance of finding a river and humans always liked to settle on rivers.
- If you're lost in a forest, don't talk to the shadows.

nah I need to check my compass every 3 seconds or I go crazy
- how would i know the way to the kitchen without a compass?

Oh god I don’t know man I’d be jonesin’ for some ‘pass if I stop using it for too long
Totally worth losing out on that $250 million not go into withdrawal
- 'pass
  Pronounced "piss"
  
  Amen brrrrother

i blocked the instagram accout that was spewing these bullshit "you get X big number money but you can't do Y thing you already dont do for a laughably small space of time"
but it's followed me here
- Your problem is Instagram. I would know because it is an issue for me as well.

I never use the compass app. I simply pick a direction and walk. Wherever I stop is where I truly wanted to go.
- A holistic traveler. You just wander and always end up wherever you're supposed to be.
  
  You know that every time I try to go Where I really wanna be It's already where I am 'Cause I'm already there

I have a real compass I use as little as the compass app
- At least you don't have to recalibrate it every time you want to use it.

The Boy Scouts trained me for this moment.

Use a real compass.
There are also online compasses that you dont need any app for
- Or no compass at all.
  Compasses are useless in daily life unless you are orienteering every day or are on a boat or something.
  But if we have to find workarounds, you can just use your preferred map app which almost always has a compass integrated.

Sure, given that I don't really have a compass app anyway
- Not with that attitude you don’t

The Sun exists 😂

Yes. Because you can use a watch to do the same thing.
- Truu the seconds hand always points true north 🙏

Imma go see if the Southern Cross is still a thing. Or maybe I should just load up with two weeks of beer and wait it out. Why not both?
- I almost feel like you'd have to be completely daft if you can't find the Crux. It's like that space of stars is so distinct, nothing else in the southern sky comes close.

I legitimately remember needing a compass at least once but could never figure out how to use those compass apps.
- It's pretty self explanatory it's a compass lol
  
  I know but it still didn't make sense to me. No matter which way I pointed my phone, the compass showed north.

Just use the compass in your maps app FFS who even has a dedicated compass app anymore?

I’ll just stay home for two days without needing to know anything about which dure tío anything faces?

I never use that app for its main purpose but I do play around with it occasionally. I recently found im at about ~780 ft above sea level (idk what that is in logical units like meters probably at least 4 meters murica)

What app?
- Compas

Spend 2.50$ for a physical compass

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