this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024

903 points (98.6% liked)

Microblog Memes

5810 readers

2345 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]

903

The world is a big place (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

194 comments fedilink hide all child comments

(page 2) 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] [email protected] 71 points 18 hours ago (7 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 25 points 14 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.

load more comments (6 replies)

[–] [email protected] 31 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

That voter is gonna learn some stuff.

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

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 104 points 20 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

adventure adventure!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 14 hours ago

I don't think he knows about second adventure.

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 12 hours ago

Bit over 2 weeks but doable

load more comments (7 replies)

[–] [email protected] 169 points 22 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] 29 points 16 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.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Just go faster. I don't get it.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Paint the skateboard red if you have to.

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

Silly humie

[–] [email protected] 42 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Add a stripe. Maybe some speed holes.

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (7 replies)

[–] [email protected] 39 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 48 points 19 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.

load more comments (9 replies)

[–] [email protected] 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

load more comments (1 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 103 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Fun fact: mountains are big.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago

Source?

[–] [email protected] 62 points 22 hours ago (15 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 72 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

He has a skateboard though

load more comments (6 replies)

load more comments (14 replies)

load more comments (2 replies)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 hours ago

Following an ignoramus, who can't read and doesn't know mountains exist (?) .. Yeah, what a content, definitely worth the invention of Internet

[–] [email protected] 11 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Can confirm I live in ZA WARUDO!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 18 hours ago

Lol, what a country

[–] [email protected] 67 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

“If Forrest Gump can do it, so can I”

[–] [email protected] 49 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Gump didn't even have a skateboard

load more comments (2 replies)

load more comments (1 replies)

[–] [email protected] 40 points 21 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (11 children)