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.
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.
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!
The best kind of adventure
I don't think he knows about second adventure.
Always need more adventure
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.
That's actually not nearly as long as I would've expected. Pretty impressive.
how did he skate up and over the Rockies?
My guess is that hitchhiking+skateboarding means grabbing an actual moving trailer hitch or three. Were he manually kicking the pavement with zero assistance, I cannot imagine covering 55 miles a day without it being downhill the entire time. After all, it is F L A T after you cross the Rockies. For at least a thousand miles. That or he has legs like tree trunks.
Bit over 2 weeks but doable
Fun fact: mountains are big.
Not-so-fun fact: He'll have to be rescued with taxpayer money
Source?
What about small mountains tho
You keep your mouth shut
Aren't those hills tho
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.
Extra socks and underwear would probably be a good call, but wear one, wash the other and let it dry either overnight or throughout the day.
Does he carry a Texas sized bottle of French cologne?
I don't want to be his room mate.
Cologne is in Germany, not France you silly goose!
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.
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.
Oh shit, he’s in the home state of illiteracy now
I'll admit there is a part of me thats relieved.
Same, I was full. Ahh. That's better.
Nothing ever happens
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.
Using a screen reader
You'd be surprised how little IG users can 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
Thanks for the detective work! I know TTS software is a thing now, but he even has a gmail account... How (un)likely is it that it's just a publicity stunt (money grab)?
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
Does he have learning disabilities? How does someone with so much motivation not learn to read
Most likely functionally illiterate and not 100% "I can't read," but I've overestimated instagrammers before
Most people are illiterate. Literacy is a skill with levels and most people don't actually ever reach the level required to be a fully functional person.
This meme is a great example. Most people don't actually reach Ogre's level of literacy. Yeah, it's played for laughs in the fact that Ogre is smarter than the average human, but Ogre is also completely correct about the level of literacy we should expect of people, in a perfect world.
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
Illiterate refers to both being able to read basic words all the way up to reading comprehenson. Equally possible he simply cannot understand what he reads and is anti-intellectual as that seems to be on the rise in the US.
As a victim of the US public School system, every class had one or more kids that simply couldn't read aloud in class for one reason or another. The teachers learned to not call on them in the future to keep things moving.
Some of them got moved to special education classes over the years, but in my experience they were just free periods to keep them from slowing the other kids down.
It's sad, I knew a guy that was smart as a whip, but we went to a restaurant he wasn't used to and he sheepishly asked me what was on the menu since there weren't any pictures.
See the great historical documentary 'Forrest Gump'.
Spelling (in non phonetic languages) has nothing to do with intelligence levels - it is all to do with memory and exposure. Perhaps he never went to school, or the level of education was pathetic… or he is incredibly dyslexic. Sorry if this answer sounds harsh but I’m pissed-off at what you wrote. I know of at least one illiterate person who stands head and shoulders above the “college kids” around them. They were such an integral part of our team that were bought them speech-to-text / text-to-speech software to keep their job.
That's why I didn't say he was stupid. I asked if he had a learning disability which is not a taboo thing and it doesn't mean you're stupid. If anything I complimented him on his motivation and determination. You were just out to find something to get mad and offended over so you interjected that into my comment, even though I didn't say that. I see that happening a lot lately with Americans. They all wanna be offended so they can moralize
I feel like a longboard would be better for this.
If the longboard is the length of the US and he mounts it, does that count? Does he have to walk the length on the longboard? I have so many (very stupid) questions!
No need to board shame him. He's just rocking with what he's got. It's not the size of the board, it's the motion on the pavement.
That voter is gonna learn some stuff.
I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.
He can't read, so that makes sense.
Well, if you're following him, did you bring more clothes? Maybe you can lend him some.
we live in a society.
Not sure he does.
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/
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/
That guys vote counts the same as yours. Just saying.
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.
Democracy!
Wyoming has the lowest population.
Makes sense why candidates spend all their time trying to get these powerful voters on their side. Those 3 electoral votes really makes it the most powerful swing state.
Someone in Wyoming has more electoral votes to their votes, yes. And I believe that is the point you're making.
If everyone in Wyoming voted for Candidate A. Candidate A has basically the same chance of winning or losing.
If everyone in California voted for Candidate A. Candidate A has a lot better chance of winning.
It's more powerful to be able to vote in something that actually matters than to vote in something that doesn't.
You could just not count any votes in Wyoming and still call the overall winner 99.999% of the time. It would have to come down to 3 electoral votes tie breaker for their votes to even matter. Whereas every vote in California always matters.
Like in this last election. If Harris won every "swing state". But Trump could have won California and he'd win the election.
Electoral college has It's pros and cons but "The smaller the state's population the more their vote counts." Isn't true.
It's the middle size, "swing states", that the voters have the most powerful.
You aren't a drop in the bucket like California, but your state has enough electoral votes to actually swing things.
The idea behind wisdom of the crowd is that the people who don't know the answer cancel each other out. It's the reason why the audience joker on who wants to be a millionaire is so powerful.
Wisdom of the crowds works when people are making somewhat educated guesses. It falls apart though if everybody groups themselves into camps that either think A or B and no other option because their camp leader has told them that they think A or B
This might not be true. Depending on where you live, your vote could be worth about 0.8th of what this guys vote is worth
Casper and Cheyenne Wyoming have the 75k most powerful voters in the country.
They control the same number of US Senators as the world's 5th largest economy.
The fact that 75k can filibuster 40m is the peak of absurdity.
Devil's advocate. We should only let a select few who we deem as intelligent to vote for us?
Such a shame. We ought to implement some type of criteria based on reading and comprehension skills that allows you to vote.
A literacy test, if you will.
Lol, what a country
Which day is he realizing the Rockies exist?
How is he planning on getting back?
Also, won't his wheels wear out?
If someone thought it would take two weeks there would be no concern about wheels wearing out. They also wouldn't have the planning skills for a way home, becsuse how far could that be?
I'm assuming it is a parody account.
I'm assuming he's gunna wind up dead in Colorado like that lady who drank all the colloidal silver
"It's one country, Michael, how wide could it be? Two weeks of skateboarding?"
Literally illiterate?
The percentage of the population that's illiterate is way higher than it has any business being.
The percentage of the population that’s illiterate is way higher than it has any business being.
Like “can’t read at an elementary school level”.
“There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics” - Mark Twain
Not in your link, but I found the same statistics as your link in another with a critical piece of information:
"According to researchers, 4 out of 5 Americans 18 and over possess medium to high proficiency in English reading and writing." source
These statistics, both your link and mine, may only be measuring literacy in English.
So looking to get a clue how many may have literacy in another language:
"Today, 13.8 percent of the nation's residents are foreign-born" source
So at least a percentage of those being counted as USA illiterate may indeed be literate in another language that isn't English.
Man, without a Department o'Education those numbers will get worse.
Figuratively infigurate
Can confirm I live in ZA WARUDO!
Orogeny gonna get ya
And here I was thinking this whole time it was the rhythm that would.
I know it says LA in the image, but are we sure he wasn't actually from Night Vale?
Mountains? More like NOTHINGS
cmon whats his name
You won't believe it;
Albert Einstein.
Is this not the hatchet wielding hitchhiker guy?
Kai? He is in jail for murder I think.
for anyone surprised I'll provide exhibit A
If he ever decides to try to find a way around the Rockies this will become even more interesting
Following an ignoramus, who can't read and doesn't know mountains exist (?) .. Yeah, what a content, definitely worth the invention of Internet
