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The world is a big place (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Does he have learning disabilities? How does someone with so much motivation not learn to read

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago

Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% "I can't read," but I've overestimated instagrammers before

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

Who cut whose dreads off?

[–] [email protected] 107 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

"reloading"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Preloading

Lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

If one prefers to keep "factor" instead of 'played", than there is always the option, "was a major factor'

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

That voter is gonna learn some stuff.

I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 minutes ago

He can't read, so that makes sense.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 7 hours ago (6 children)

One change of clothes for a 2-week trip... now that's a man's man!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Can confirm I live in ZA WARUDO!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 7 hours ago

Lol, what a country

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.

[–] [email protected] 69 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

You'd be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, just look at Trump. Functional illiteracy is a real thing in the US.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

All 7 words he knows? It's called THE WEAVE!....or something.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 hours ago (9 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 91 points 9 hours ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Bit over 2 weeks but doable

[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

adventure adventure!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

I don't think he knows about second adventure.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago

Orogeny gonna get ya

[–] [email protected] 146 points 11 hours ago (9 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago

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.