"It's one country, Michael, how wide could it be? Two weeks of skateboarding?"
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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Micro cosmology is a problem a majority of Americans live with. If they can't see it from their front porch it don't exist. That played a major factor in the current shitshow preloading in d.c.
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Almost certain they were playing it up and this is satire, sorry to spoil everyone’s fun. https://www.instagram.com/jaayfilms They started again on September 30 this year and are now in Missouri. If these content creators are good at one thing it’s creating a compelling narrative and this guy did it by getting himself called illiterate.
Oh shit, he’s in the home state of illiteracy now
Two weeks, huh? The US is around 3,000 miles from coast to coast, so that puts him over 200 miles skateboarding every single day... I'm not sure, but the person who didn't know mountains exist might be dumb.
Just go faster. I don't get it.
Paint the skateboard red if you have to.
Paint it yella to make it shootyer
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200miles/8hours of skating straight means an average speed of 25 miles an hour.
Ambitious, considering the average speed of a skateboarder is closer to 10 miles an hour, but it could be possible if he was extremely fit, had unbreakable bones, and the US was a flat plane for 3000 miles like this guy thought.
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Apparently, Chad Caruso set the Guinness world record as the first person to skateboard across America in 2023, from Venice Beach to Virginia Beach. It took him 57 days to cover 3,162 miles, adventure adventure of 55 miles a day.
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Well, if you're following him, did you bring more clothes? Maybe you can lend him some.
we live in a society.
Not sure he does.
One change of clothes for a 2-week trip... now that's a man's man!
I mean it's not extremely far off compared to Ultralight hiking, you can still be hygienic (like often washing clothes), of course though you're not winning parfume contests along the way... It's a tradeoff to make compared to having a lot of uncomfortable weight to carry around.
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Fun fact: mountains are big.
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That guys vote counts the same as yours. Just saying.
This might not be true. Depending on where you live, your vote could be worth about 0.8th of what this guys vote is worth
Casper and Cheyenne Wyoming have the 75k most powerful voters in the country.
They control the same number of US Senators as the world's 5th largest economy.
The fact that 75k can filibuster 40m is the peak of absurdity.
If he's from California then my vote counts a little more because my state has less population. The smaller the state's population the more their vote counts.
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The idea behind wisdom of the crowd is that the people who don't know the answer cancel each other out. It's the reason why the audience joker on who wants to be a millionaire is so powerful.
Wisdom of the crowds works when people are making somewhat educated guesses. It falls apart though if everybody groups themselves into camps that either think A or B and no other option because their camp leader has told them that they think A or B
I met a guy like that in the 90's except he was on a lot of LSD and was making his way around the world. IDK if that was true but my buddy picked him up one night and we had a party with him and he cut his dreads off and burned them so a witch wouldn't get them. Good times!
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Does he have learning disabilities? How does someone with so much motivation not learn to read
It is easy to have motivation to skateboard across america when you don't have enough education to understand what doing that means.
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Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% "I can't read," but I've overestimated instagrammers before
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How does he use IG?
Assuming its not a parody.
You'd be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.
When I first moved to Japan, I had to use lots of websites that used untranslatable images (not text, like png or whatever and google lens was not a thing). I got help a few times and memorized what clicking on an area did more than even what the image was (which would change sometimes). This is how I got by with ATMs and various websites for quite a while. It works until something changes. Today, screen readers, google lens, and other things exist to help as well.
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That voter is gonna learn some stuff.
I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.
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Cant seem to find this dude on ig, there are just too many that tried to cross the usa with a board.
Does someone have a link to this specific persons ig? That would be great, thanks.
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