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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 54 points 3 days ago

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 30 points 3 days ago

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

[-] figjam@midwest.social 11 points 3 days ago

I'll admit there is a part of me thats relieved.

[-] Numenor@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Same, I was full. Ahh. That's better.

[-] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 172 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] demonmittenhands@lemmy.world 179 points 3 days ago

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 125 points 3 days ago

Just go faster. I don't get it.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 94 points 3 days ago

Paint the skateboard red if you have to.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 49 points 3 days ago

Add a stripe. Maybe some speed holes.

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[-] Zron@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days 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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[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Infomatics90@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 days ago

Not sure he does.

[-] aramis87@fedia.io 120 points 3 days ago

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 65 points 3 days ago
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[-] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 75 points 3 days ago

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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[-] xyz1195@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

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

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 11 points 2 days ago

If he's from California then my vote counts a little more because my state has less population. The smaller the state's population the more their vote counts.

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[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 109 points 3 days ago

Fun fact: mountains are big.

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 63 points 3 days ago

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

[-] NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world 71 points 3 days ago

He has a skateboard though

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[-] superkret@feddit.org 33 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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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[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 45 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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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[-] Xtallll@lemmy.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 days ago

I feel like a longboard would be better for this.

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago

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

[-] Jiggle_Physics@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

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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[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 39 points 3 days ago

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

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[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 67 points 3 days ago

“If Forrest Gump can do it, so can I”

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 52 points 3 days ago

Gump didn't even have a skateboard

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago

How does he use IG?

Assuming its not a parody.

[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 81 points 3 days ago

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

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 58 points 3 days ago

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 3 days ago

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

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[-] Freefall@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago

That voter is gonna learn some stuff.

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

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[-] vormadikter@startrek.website 41 points 3 days ago

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 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Reverse image search brings up this image:

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

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