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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @11:24AM (#41110065)
That is why cultures in such climates tend to have a mid-day siesta when no one goes out, and a lively late night when the temperatures become bearable, the sun no longer tries to murder you with its rays, and people go outside to eat, shop and meet friends.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by TylerE on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:55PM (#41112152)
Nah, as someone who lives somewhere with actual humidity “mid day” is basically “whenever the sun is up”.

85 and humid here is worse than -00 and dry in Phoenix. It’s so humid your sweat can’t evaporate because the air is already saturated. It’s beyond miserable, and actively unhealthy to many.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @01:57PM (#41112169)
Yeah, hot and humid areas have never been particularly friendly to human civilization. Prior to the industrial era, they were mostly covered by rainforests.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by TylerE on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:23PM (#41112456)
North Carolina is hardly rainforest, nor has it ever been.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by zamadatix on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @03:04PM (#41112959)
You might be thinking "tropical rainforest". Even today parts of North Carolina (and even Alaska) are classified as temperate rainforests: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Temperat...
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by TylerE on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @07:35PM (#41115149)
Very small parts. We just have lots of water and swampland down where I am.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by randomdata on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:57PM (#41112885)
The map of US rainforests shows an active rainforest along the western side of North Carolina. It is not all that hard to believe said forest could have been much larger before the human touch.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by TylerE on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @04:23PM (#41113742)
Western part of the state is farther from where I am than LA is from SF, just for the record.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by randomdata on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @12:22AM (#41116387)
The easternly side of the forest to the easternmost points of NC is not further than LA from SF, though. Unless you live way out in the ocean, but still consider that to be North Carolina for some reason, you are closer than said distance to the forest.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by TylerE on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @01:27PM (#41121211)
I do I. Fact live almost at the Coast. Just to get to Asheville, which is hardly the westernmost point in the state, is over 6 hours.

Los Angeles to SF is 381 miles. My town to the Cherokee, which is about where the rainforest zone starts, is 383. North Carolina is a much bigger state than most people realize.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by randomdata on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @01:30PM (#41121236)
You do live out in the Ocean? Fair enough.

Nobody has ever thought North Carolina was small, though. Where did that idea come from? In fact, it is not clear why the record needed a distance in the first place.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by TylerE on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @04:03PM (#41122910)
In the ocean, no, but about 30 miles inland.

I assure you, as life long resident, I have blown the minds of many non-natives by stating I can drive for 8 hours west and still not quite be in Tennessee. In most places east of the Mississippi that gets you through 3-4 states.

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by randomdata on Thursday August 01, 2024 @02:07PM (#41131836)
It's all relative, I guess. I'm looking at 20 hours of driving to get the western extent of the province. And seven hours the other way to get to the easternmost side. 8 hours is but a leisurely afternoon cruise.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by ffgjgf1 on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @09:40AM (#41119076)
It’s not a tropical rainforest though. Temperate/subtropical rainforests aren’t as bad.
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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by inglor_cz on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @02:33PM (#41112581)
I don't know much about NC, but the only parrot native to the US used to live there [0], which indicates that it must have been pretty heavily forested prior to the Colombian exchange.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolina_parakeet

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Re:If We Want a Shift to Walking, We Need to Prioritize Dignity by cafard on Wednesday July 31, 2024 @10:51AM (#41119708)
Sicily? Rome? Angkor Wat?
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