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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 194 points 1 month ago (6 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.

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] demonmittenhands@lemmy.world 192 points 1 month ago (11 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.

[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 139 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just go faster. I don't get it.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 106 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Paint the skateboard red if you have to.

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Add a stripe. Maybe some speed holes.

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[–] Zron@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month 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.

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[–] aramis87@fedia.io 129 points 1 month ago (9 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.

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 71 points 1 month ago (3 children)
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[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 112 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fun fact: mountains are big.

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 63 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Not-so-fun fact: He'll have to be rescued with taxpayer money

[–] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 74 points 1 month ago (3 children)

He has a skateboard though

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And the skateboard is the fastest way to get around Lego Island

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 35 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Boring fact: 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.

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[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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

[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 75 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago

Oh shit, he’s in the home state of illiteracy now

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[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 69 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“If Forrest Gump can do it, so can I”

[–] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Gump didn't even have a skateboard

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 49 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 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!

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (6 children)

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 58 points 1 month 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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[–] Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

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[–] vormadikter@startrek.website 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 50 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (11 children)

Reverse image search brings up this image:

Which goes here: https://www.instagram.com/jaayfilms

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[–] jBlight@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (16 children)

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

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[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (10 children)

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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[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I feel like a longboard would be better for this.

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[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That voter is gonna learn some stuff.

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

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

Well, if you're following him, did you bring more clothes? Maybe you can lend him some.

[–] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 25 points 1 month ago (5 children)

How many skateboard wheels are needed for a 3000 mile trip?

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 38 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 31 points 1 month ago

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/

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[–] xyz1195@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (17 children)

That guys vote counts the same as yours. Just saying.

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