Rule of 3’s. You can go 3min without oxygen, 3 hrs without shelter, 3 days without water, and 30 days without food. It is a bit of generalization, but its close enough to set priorities in survival situations.
Man survives being lost in California mountains for 10 days by eating berries
I doubt that very much. Anyone for whom 10 days of no food is going to be fatal isn’t going to be voluntarily going on hikes.
It’s a social convention for people to eat multiple times a day, but that’s it. You’ve got enough energy reserves to go for a far longer period of time.
A 27-year-old male patient fasted under supervision for 382 days and has subsequently maintained his normal weight.
It’s not mentioned in the research paper above, but the guy’s name was Angus Barbieri.
Now, that guy had a lot of fat on him, which he wanted to lose – most people couldn’t go for over a year without food. He dropped 276 pounds over 382 days to get to 180 pounds. But unless someone is emaciated, they could do 10 days easily. I’ve fasted for over a week myself for the hell of it.
sitting by waterfalls and using his boot to collect water to drink and keep himself hydrated.
That may well have kept him alive, though. Can’t go for anything like as long as you can without food without water.
It’s worded poorly, the article is saying that he maintained the “normal weight” of 180 pounds after he finished fasting and didn’t gain it all back again once he started eating.
They kind of have to. There’s no way they were going to get the original land back and this solution offers more land and opportunities to provide money for the people.
He’s enthusiastic, not experienced, about the outdoors. He told no one, had no bearing or equipment, and got lucky that he was found. The article was being gracious about his abilities to be outside - and he survived a week and a half with nothing so the article can’t say he’s bad at it.
I think it makes more sense if you read “outdoors enthusiast” as outdoors “enthusiast.”
Im 99% sure the author is just engaging in some dry wit and being sarcastic about his outdoor prowess, seeing as he was so deeply unprepared that “boot cup” became his primary means of survival.
Because he had done it before, and just like a worker does a singular job often or you drive the same route to work all the time, familiarity can breed complacency. That’s when accidents happen.
None of this is an accident though. He knows he’s going on a 3 hour hike, only brings a flashlight folding scissors, but no water?! This guy is a moron
He was complacent, believing because he’d done the route often enough he’d be safe.
I mean how could he get lost when he said he’d done it before? Because he was so familiar with it his mind wandered and he wasn’t paying attention.
The same thing has happened to me when I’ve been driving the same route home after a long day at work. All of a sudden I ‘wake up’ and realize I don’t remember the drive at all.
There is a difference between not paying attention and not registering memories. Millions of people operate cars a little zoned out every day. With both hands on the wheel and a decent level of experience, your muscle memory and natural reactions will operate the vehicle adequately.
Zoning out a little on the road does not equal distracted driving like text messaging, loud kids, or fiddling with screen controls. Your mind is still focused on the task, even if you aren’t registering memories about it.
What hes describing above is common enough to have a term : highway hypnosis.
It’s well passed “zoned out.” I’ve personally experienced it. Youre on such autopilot that you dont even recall the drive. Its more likely to happen for routine or monotonous drives.
Hey the place where my grand parents were born. New Edinburg, AR. A wide spot in the road between Warren, AR and Fordyce AR. It mainly acts as a place to slow down due to the reduced speed limit for no real reason. Fun fact about that road. I haven’t been that way in over a decade but there was a sign/monument on the road marking the birth place of Bear Bryant. Also not far from Kingsland, AR the birth place of Johnny Cash. Both of those people did the smart thing. The smart thing was to leave Cleveland county.
an opponent of ranked choice voting, contributed $90,000 to the Ranked Choice Education Association, an organization incorporated as a church in Washington state
All land everywhere is stolen from someone by someone else and then by someone else. The US is just recent enough that we remember and try to be better.
There’s a point of insanity here that most people miss: the property rights for the original piece of land are so mucked up that it’s just easier to give them (more) land somewhere else.
Polanyi had observed that, in the 1930s, wealthy Germans who saw the Nazi party as a “battering ram” against trade unions and socialists were persuaded to overlook Hitler’s antisemitism because it allowed the market system to flourish, Dale said. “In the same way that a lot of Americans who find Trump distasteful today will still vote for him, a lot of German elites said to themselves: we’re quite happy funding Hitler because his street fighters will help crush the trade unions, so that we can make more profits.”
They got the metaphor wrong. Billionaires see Trump as a battering ram to break what remains of the US social support system and claim victory over the ashes.
Capitalist oligarchs want a system based on having money to pay for education, health care, childcare, etc. Each part of our lives will have a price tag and only the rich will be free to live as they want - the rest of us are tied to their decisions and will accept the scraps given to us.
Part of their plan is to dismantle the education system and make everyone too stupid to know how we lived and how much we are being abused.
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