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  • How long can someone physically walk for?

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  • There was a pilrimage/challenge a friend of mine went on. It was walking 20 miles each day for 3 days for a total of 60 mi/96.5 km. That was in upstate NY where there are plenty of hills to keep it interesting

    Blisters, chafing and fatigue is common but many people do that every year

  • Before modern-day authoritarian regimes, did people living under abosolute monarchies criticize the monarchs? Or did they just stay silent in fear of persecution?

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  • My great grandparents immigrated from Eastern Europe to the US. My Grandma told us about the time one of their relatives came to visit them. She remembers that he almost never took off his shoes, even when sleeping. They asked him about it and he said it was to run out the back door if the secret police came. He was amazed that nobody else in the family did the same, and then even more amazed to learn that nobody HAD to

  • Do all American stores have greeters?

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  • Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown

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  • how do school shooters know how to use guns?

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  • Learning the manual of arms (procedure of loading, firing, unloading a type of firearm) is a YouTube video away and isn't hard. If you can use a drill, a stapler or a nerf gun you can figure out how to make a gun go bang.

    The difficult part is technique that makes the bullets go where you want them to. Shooting fast is easy, just mag dump in a general direction and you'll eventually hit something. Shooting slowly and accurately is way more effective and responsible. Basic marksmanship takes a bit of practice to hone but anyone can do it, including you reading this.

    But shooting fast AND accurate is a skill that takes consistent practice to hone and keep. That's what makes competitons like USPSA so challenging

  • what can I do at my workplace during downtime?

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  • Reading is always good, and waay better than scrolling. Audiobooks/podcasts are also cool and if you can't fully commit yourself to writing maybe just jot down an outline to flesh out later

  • Not trying to disparage first responders on 911. Why aren't nurses included with fire and police departments? Did we not take care of people on the backend of the rescuing?

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  • I listened to a 99% Invisible episode on how EMS got started. Totally worth a listen

    For a while (60s-70s) there was a stigma that early Paramedics couldn't provide adequate care because they were not doctors and nurses though in reality they spent lots of time training in hospitals working with them.

    You can even see this in tv shows like Emergency. Any time they have a medical situation they radio a hospital to get direct medical advice from a doctor. It also gives a (kinda) realistic reason to explain what they are doing to the viewing audience

  • Let's talk maps for driving, transit, finding businesses? OsmAnd, Organic Maps, CoMaps , etc

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  • OSMand seems kinda clunky but it lets you do more stuff to really customize it if you want but I still find myself getting lost in the menus sometimes. But I like it for hiking/outdoorsy stuff

    Organic Maps/Comaps is slick and smooth and really easy to use for most everyday stuff we'd use Google Maps for

    Other people have mentioned it but one of the best things you can do is a little mapping of your local area on OpenStreetMap. Try to include the places you go to the most, or at least making notes so other know what needs added. That makes any app or service that uses it better for yourself and others around you

  • The Pager

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  • That's fair, I think it's cool because I have so few people in range normally.

    People have put nodes on essentially a weather balloon and that had cool results

  • The Pager

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  • Airline passengers with nodes are amazing repeaters for the few minutes they are overhead. Thanks to them I've seen signals hop to my nodes from nearly 200 miles away

    It's crazy how fast meshtastic/lora technologies have taken off in just a few years

  • Google Photos app uploaded all my locally saved pictures completely against my will

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  • Yes.

  • If and how much longer until they take cash and browser-based banking from us?

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  • Well yeah you don't need currency when value is based on physical stuff Catan style. I make brick, I trade for milk.

    But when you have a trade that doesn't make physical goods or doesn't involve the stuff you have to offer you'll need a do-good coupon that everyone agrees to represent value.

  • CBP Had Access to More than 80,000 Flock AI Cameras Nationwide

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  • Seems like they're pissed because they didn't get their cut of federal funding

  • Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms?

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  • Yes and no. It's more I want the big socials to have competition and shrink

  • YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality - United States

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  • With AI seeping into everything I think offline backups should be made of everything that is important to you or your organization.

    Imagine you are a government or corporation. Instead of recognising and dealing with any painful past events you just pull a 1984 and rewrite history, changing movies and editing old documents.

    This is scary shit because we know people are already abusing it for their gain

  • Good answers to Arguments against privacy

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  • Good answers to Arguments against privacy

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  • I close the door when I poop.

    It's no secret, and I'm not doing anything wrong, but it's MY business and nobody else's.

  • How to get TSA PreCheck while protecting privacy?

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  • Fingerprints are the least invasive of biometrics imo. If your fingerprints are weak the govt may put you under more scrutiny "just in case" and I think that would be a much greater violation of your privacy

    Prints prove you were in a place just like an airport camera and airline records would. As long as your phone/computer etc isn't unlocked via fingerprint that's really all it can be used for on most cases. Don't get me wrong it isn't ideal and I see your point of wanting to avoid giving that away regardless

  • Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • Running with Rifles, Army Men II (comparing the game mechanics) and on my first playthrough of Mass Effect 2

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    Chinese Soldiers Arrest Aang for Illegal Airbending

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    Jesus dunks on Santa in legendary one on one game

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    The little green men are trying to steal my cereal again!

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    Gifts, like wizards, arrive precisely when they mean to! I'm pleased to see that both find you well

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    Ever wonder why the Metal Gear universe uses FOX as one of the highest titles?

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    FBI's bust of the year

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    Bing/Dalle

    Dash away all (who stand against us)!

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    Wireframe Cathedral

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    Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun is a great way to get started with isometric real time tactics games

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    Issue: Hide Scores Setting Not Working

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    Where it stands now how much does it cost to keep this server running, and how can we help with that?

  • Patient Gamers @sh.itjust.works
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    What is an unpopular game/series you enjoy anyway?

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    Ravenfield: A Single Player Mod Playground Inspired by Battlefield

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    What system was your favorite when you were growing up?