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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.
Preloading
Lol
Here’s another one for you: ‘played a major factor in’. Not strictly correct grammatically. A better phrase would’ve been, “played a major role in”.
If one prefers to keep “factor” instead of ‘played", than there is always the option, "was a major factor’
“reloading”
Give me fuel give me fire give me that which I desire?
Where’s your crown, King nothing?
HUUUAH
This is painfully accurate.
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
I’ll admit there is a part of me thats relieved.
Same, I was full. Ahh. That’s better.
Nothing ever happens
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.
Add a stripe. Maybe some speed holes.
he should have invest in a big red firework like the coyote
Go faster stripes FTW!
Paint a tunnel on the side of the mountain. Easy.
Add a lightning bolt. Kachow!
Silly humie
Paint it yella to make it shootyer
"I’m crouching as hard as I can!”
If he’s illiterate we don’t need to call him dumb
Also allegedly the Rockies, not all mountains… we hope
I doubt he is being labelled “dumb” due to being illiterate.
Doing no research prior to setting out is a great reason to call him dumb.
Though lack of research because you can’t read is a bit of a speed bump in the whole “doing research” process
Yes, but people 40 years ago managed. Youtube and a friend that can read. Hell asking random strangers their opinions on what the challenges of skateboarding across the country are.
You’re not wrong!
I will say, I learned stuff like that to be a good idea through a productive education system which also helped me learn to read
People 200 years ago managed.
It’s extremely dumb to just go out cross country with zero knowledge though.
Little tiny baby speedbump
Maybe this is explained somewhere if I could be bothered to research it, but how can he be actually illiterate?
He has an instagram account. How is he reading anything to do with it if he’s illiterate? Sub numbers, password resets, comments? How would he even know people are watching if he can’t read numbers?
Illiteracy is not binary. If he reads at a second grade level (sounding out, length of word and difficulty of spelling being barriers to correct reading)
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.
“It’s one country, Michael, how wide could it be? Two weeks of skateboarding?”
Well, if you’re following him, did you bring more clothes? Maybe you can lend him some.
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.
adventure adventure!
The best kind of adventure
Always need more adventure
I don’t think he knows about second adventure.
That’s actually not nearly as long as I would’ve expected. Pretty impressive.
how did he skate up and over the Rockies?
He kick flipped real hard
He kicked the mountains and then flipped them off, they felt so disrespected they moved north and waited until he had passed them.
Rob Thomson skated across the US starting in 2006. Also from Switzerland to China.
I have a photo from that trip handing up poster size in my house. A random waterfall panorama.
Bit over 2 weeks but doable
we live in a society.
Not sure he does.
Fun fact: mountains are big.
Not-so-fun fact: He’ll have to be rescued with taxpayer money
He has a skateboard though
And the skateboard is the fastest way to get around Lego Island
You’ve just triggered a memory. Something about vehicles zooming around Lego Island. Were you able to get out of them while they were moving so that they kept going?
Oh I have no idea, I remember very little of that game. Something about a helicopter crash and a race you had to use the skateboard for. It was the fastest vehicle.
I don’t believe so, no
Probably will find a half pipe somewhere.
Mountain valleys are nature’s halfpipes writ large.
Another fact: Society failed to educate him properly using taxpayer money.
Perhaps society deserves to face the consequences of its actions.
I agree with you and have even more to add -
Even more fun fact - the taxpayer money that will likely eventually be used to rescue this person, potentially saving their life, is an infinitesimal waste compared to so very many other things. I’m not ever going to shame someone or expect them to be billed/prosecuted/etc for their rescue unless they criminally broke the law in order to arrive at that state. (and maybe not even then)
You can only teach someone as much as they’re willing to learn.
Boring facts: The highest pass he’ll have to cross on his journey looks like this:
If he’ll have to be rescued, then because someone ran him over.
Could also get snowed in somewhere or unable to get to shelter during a major storm.
I mean he should get to the East Coast around 70 days from now, what are the chances he’ll see snow before January 30th. Guess he can turn around and ride back through the Appalachian Mountains in February. No snow there right?
Meanwhile a normal mountain pass in the normal world:
That’s just the section of the map for drift challenges
What does this mean?
Do you see the picture? What’s confusing to you?
Probably that the US is No. 1 in paving straight over every available surface. And that they will move mountains to do it apparently.
Source?
What about small mountains tho
You keep your mouth shut
Aren’t those hills tho
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!
Who cut whose dreads off?
The traveling dude cut his dreads with my buddies help
That must’ve smelled horrible.
The dreads were magic, and you helped him free him self, and now he works a white collar job
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.
Does he carry a Texas sized bottle of French cologne?
I don’t want to be his room mate.
Axe Body Spray. Guaranteed.
I mean, also because he’s apparently not aware of the largest mountain range in North America.
Gonna have huge calves.
French cologne, my ass! He wears WAAAAAAY to much Axe Body Spray like a patriotic American bro who doesn’t understand geography should.
Cologne is in Germany, not France you silly goose!
I feel like a longboard would be better for this.
If the longboard is the length of the US and he mounts it, does that count? Does he have to walk the length on the longboard? I have so many (very stupid) questions!
No need to board shame him. He’s just rocking with what he’s got. It’s not the size of the board, it’s the motion on the pavement.
“If Forrest Gump can do it, so can I”
Gump didn’t even have a skateboard
From the sound of it, the skateboarding guy must have never watched Forrest Gump. He would have known it would take more than 2 weeks, just by seeing Gump’s beard grow.
Nuhuh. that movie took only 2 hours and 22 minutes, and that walking sequence took up about 10~20 minutes, he just has really strong beard growth when he walks. If Forrest can do it in 20 minutes, I should be able to do it in 2 weeks! /jk
The fastest growing beard alive!
His name: Barry Allen
The late great Forrest Gump?
I know it says LA in the image, but are we sure he wasn’t actually from Night Vale?
Mountains? More like NOTHINGS
How does he use IG?
Assuming its not a parody.
Using a screen reader
You’d be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.
You’d be functional how surprised can be the illiterate.
Functional be you’d illiterate can surprised the be how.
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.
Sounds like just learning to read would be a better use of your time then. I mean if you already speak the language it should be fairly trivial, right?
Laughs in Kanji
笑
Im sorry, i don’t know Spanish.
Nice try. Still getting deported.
I literally started with “When I first moved to Japan”.
To answer your question, though, learning to read Kanji is not trivial especially when each one can have a number of different pronunciations or appear in compounds where the meaning can be quite different.
How many languages can you speak?
You do realise that in Japan they don’t use Roman letters?! Sounds are one thing, a pictorial based writing system quite another! Just as in English, the same sounding word can mean several things, so the same spelt word can mean several things in Asian languages!
Yeah, just look at Trump. Functional illiteracy is a real thing in the US.
All 7 words he knows? It’s called THE WEAVE!..or something.
You’d be surprised how little IG users can read.
Is this not the hatchet wielding hitchhiker guy?
Kai? He is in jail for murder I think.
for anyone surprised I’ll provide exhibit A
