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[–] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 48 minutes ago

I feel like a longboard would be better for this.

[–] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 27 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 4 points 53 minutes ago

It is easy to have motivation to skateboard across america when you don't have enough education to understand what doing that means.

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 points 52 minutes ago* (last edited 50 minutes ago)

Idunno anything about this guy, but for some folks they just weren't taught early enough. You can learn to read at any age, but no amount of motivation can match an early education

[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 21 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 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!

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 hour ago

The traveling dude cut his dreads with my buddies help

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 118 points 8 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.

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 5 points 1 hour ago

"reloading"

[–] MataVatnik@lemmy.world 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 6 points 5 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".

[–] freddydunningkruger@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] Freefall@lemmy.world 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

That voter is gonna learn some stuff.

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

[–] KingJalopy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago

He can't read, so that makes sense.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 52 points 8 hours ago (7 children)

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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[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Can confirm I live in ZA WARUDO!

[–] aramis87@fedia.io 95 points 10 hours ago (7 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.

[–] garbagebagel@lemmy.world 1 points 55 minutes ago

That's actually not nearly as long as I would've expected. Pretty impressive.

[–] Michal@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours ago

Bit over 2 weeks but doable

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 45 points 8 hours ago (3 children)
[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 4 hours ago

I don't think he knows about second adventure.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 17 points 8 hours ago

Lol, what a country

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 36 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.

[–] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 71 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Gimpydude@lemmynsfw.com 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 48 points 8 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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