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.

If I say it’s safe to surf this beach, Captain, it’s safe to surf this beach!

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 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.

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.

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.

the scheme remains a thought experiment … too “extreme” to be pursued.

Challenge accepted.

Somebody call Vinci and Bechtel! We’re building some damn dams!

You cannot run through a campsite. You can only ran through it.

Because it’s past tents.

N

I got you, friend.

a physical button on the floor under the gas pedal

I had an E30 BMW with one of those. Push the button and the automatic transmission would immediately downshift, and the engine would spin up in a hurry. Spaz mode was fun.

New Zealand doesn’t exist!

Power and fuel economy are not the only two variables. Emissions are the biggest thing that comes to mind: your new high-performance remap might put your car outside of the emissions limits for your market.

Some aggressive remaps can also adversely affect how the car drives in normal use. Think rough idle, or jerky acceleration. The vast majority of drivers do not want that.

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.

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.

Time to see if there are any notable dead people near me and start a tradition.