You must log in or # to comment.
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’
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.
French cologne, my ass! He wears WAAAAAAY to much Axe Body Spray like a patriotic American bro who doesn’t understand geography should.
Axe Body Spray. Guaranteed.
I mean, also because he’s apparently not aware of the largest mountain range in North America.
Lol, what a country
Does he have learning disabilities? How does someone with so much motivation not learn to read
Orogeny gonna get ya
Can confirm I live in ZA WARUDO!
That voter is gonna learn some stuff.
I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.
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!
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.
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?
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?
Laughs in Kanji
笑
Im sorry, i don’t know Spanish.
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.
Using a screen reader
deleted by creator
You’d be functional how surprised can be the illiterate.
Functional be you’d illiterate can surprised the be how.
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!
I don’t think he knows about second adventure.
Always need more adventure
The best kind of adventure
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.
Which day is he realizing the Rockies exist?
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.
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.
Just go faster. I don’t get it.
"I’m crouching as hard as I can!”
Paint the skateboard red if you have to.
Add a lightning bolt. Kachow!
Add a stripe. Maybe some speed holes.
Go faster stripes FTW!
he should have invest in a big red firework like the coyote
Paint a tunnel on the side of the mountain. Easy.
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
Little tiny baby speedbump
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.
People 200 years ago managed.
It’s extremely dumb to just go out cross country with zero knowledge though.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
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.
Day 52 in Missouri, dudes committed
What are you using to take that screenshot? It looks like a phone but the aspect ratio is like a square
Samsung Z fold 5
One of us! One of us! One of us!
Probably one of those new folding phones?
Foldable, OnePlus Open
Folding device?
To the dude’s credit, he appears to be still at it, skateboarding across the country. He apparently posted a ‘day 50’ video.
So it sounds to me like whoever made that post did him dirty.
I’m not great at this, but from the original x post, I think his handle is @jaayfilms
The news report video says he dropped out of HS. I couldn’t find where he got that he’s illiterate, thought this would take two weeks and didn’t know about the mountains… But I honestly didn’t dig much after haha. If someone else finds it, please let me know. I just want to read that comment thread haha
“If Forrest Gump can do it, so can I”
The late great Forrest Gump?
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.
How many skateboard wheels are needed for a 3000 mile trip?
Not many sites seem to deal in distance when talking about replacing skateboard wheels, but I was able to find this:
https://skateboardscan.com/skateboard-wheels-last/
So according to that he’d need 10-30 sets of skateboard wheels to cross the country.
Of course if you’re just riding on the side of highways in a straight line forever you could probably get a little more out of them since you’re not doing any precision work or tricks.
Chad Caruso did it last year using just one set of wheels. New record too (57 days).
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2023/05/22/how-chad-caruso-skated-across-america/
Not so sure. A road surface tends to be rougher pavement than sidewalks or skate parks. I’d imagine the side of a highway chewing those parkboard wheels away at record rates.
I’m honestly kinda shocked anyone attempting this wouldn’t use a longboard with some chonkier wheels.
Oh, he’s probably thinking he can stay on the sidewalk most of the way.
I’m not sure how he even got as far as the Rockies since there’s a desert you have to get through first.
I don’t think anyone who lives in the US would be dumb enough to think they can find sidewalks along anywhere they might want to go without a car.
Yeah, that was the joke
You don’t know if he’s maybe Nollie Kickflipping the whole way.
Chad Caruso did it last year using a single setup for the whole trip, so 4…
https://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2023/05/22/how-chad-caruso-skated-across-america/
I love that this has happened before and recent enough that it can be compared to this dude’s trip. Great find.
This one’s not going to be close. According to his youtube channel, he’s on day 50 in Kansas. Got a Red Bull partnership and enough money for hotels & Uber for off-trek travel.
I dunno man if he’s in Kansas that means he’s past the Rockies and it’s all downhill from there.
/s
