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streetlamp post with cardinal directions (lemmy.world)
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[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 8 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

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

[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (6 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.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Ah crap, it's noon

[–] topsecret@feddit.uk 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] lengau@midwest.social 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm in the tropics

[–] turmacar@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Drop bears attack from the South.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

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

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