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... I know basically none of that stuff. Still pretty good at knowing the time based on sun position. Sometimes just level of illumination. You get a feel for it when you're in the same area for a while, without having to actually explicitly know... any of that, really.

Definitely don't need to know which direction is south, though. Just which way the sun's moving (this is easy to tell without knowing which cardinal direction is which, so long as your short term memory isn't incredibly horrendous.), and maybe a rough idea of when dawn/nightfall is. That's... about all. Noon is up. The rest isn't much trouble. S'not much more complicated than knowing AM/PM, really.

Guess those 24 hour heathens have it easy, I'unno.

... easiest trick. Leave them in pocket. If done with pocket bearing object for that day, transfer to tomorrow's pocket bearing object. Then, if you forget your keys, you have also forgotten your pants/dress/shirt/wallet/purse/etc. Which is less likely to happen.

Similarly, it would mean that you were too lazy to be wearing something with pockets and if that's true... I'm sorry. There's no helping you, and you deserve to lounge on the front porch equivalent until help comes. No mercy for the pocketless.

Oh yeah... I'd definitely say go with the main campaign. I remember it being fairly neat _{even if I never actually got past, like, the first mission-thingy}

I'll just... sit here and hope no actual eruption happens. In, like, my lifetime or something. S'fairly unlikely, I think, but still...

Last I checked yellowstone going off would be... bad. As in world economic collapse bad, since the states would be pretty much flat fucked and most everything would come tumbling down with it. As a sort of base minimum.

... maybe my memory's shoddy on that one?

Removing my beloved spiders; why would you do this horror?

because they hate you and want you to fly

E: Because it apparently wasn't clear enough who that was directed to.

Well, making voting mandatory ensures that the local government must provide everyone with the ability to vote, otherwise, they're breaking their own laws.

Yeah, technically they've got the ability to vote right now... usually, anyway. It's just, y'know, on a freaking tuesday. Many aren't able until work lets out and the logistic and psychological issues with that should be bloody obvious. It's also not an actual holiday bloody anywhere, insofar as I could tell. It's a civic holiday in a handful of states* -- that is, they have to give workers time off, with pay, to go vote -- but that's the extent of it. Distance voting of varying sorts is... fairly painless, somewhat, sometimes, but it's still a fair pain in the ass and there's eternal effort to limit voter access to it. Mandatory voting would be less attractive if the voting process as-is wasn't quite so, well. Vote blocking. Really is a kinda' fucked up situation, t'be honest. One of those, "Who the hell thought this was a good idea" things.

*I didn't even know this was a thing until I checked wikipedia. It's not where I'm at.

... honestly, I'd half wager that just changing the damned voting day would do a lot to help out with turnout.