I’m at 5.8 miles walking a day so far this year. You can be not sedentary and also alive.
On an unrelated note. What you’re doing is not making people more likely to ride a bike.
What I’m saying, and what I said, is not going to be the deciding factor of whether people ride a bike. This is what’s wrong with the internet. Well meaning people believe other people aren’t intelligent enough to decide for themselves. I believe the technical term is “white knighting”.
In a way, it’s similar to the “woke” controversy. You’re afraid once people read what I wrote about dying on a bike, they won’t be able to decide for themselves if a bike is for them, just like conservatives think seeing a same-sex embrace will turn their child gay.
The truth is, human behavior is a lot more behind the scenes than it’s probably comfortable for you to imagine. It feels right to point to one moment as the moment you decided to ride or not ride a bicycle, but it’s absolutely not true unless that one moment was deeply traumatizing. Stop treating strangers’ words like trauma, we don’t agree for reasons we may or may not be aware of. Neither of us is as important as you’re imagining.
Those stories of one person changing the world? Convenient and wrong. It was movements of lots of people. Movements built offline of people who spent face time planning real things they actually were going to do and then executing those plans.
So I appreciate you believing I have the power to dissuade people from riding bikes by telling my absolutely true story of almost dying on a bike, but it’s as big a waste of your time as me typing this thing you won’t fully understand (see what I did there?)
Statistically, you are twice as likely to die riding a bike vs driving.
I’m glad you are not a coward, I heard only cowards can die riding a bicycle.
And what of the trucks and people texting? I straight up saw someone doing a FaceTime while driving 2 weeks ago. I’d be hesitant to drive a small car, let alone a bike.
I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I almost took a 3 ton truck to the knee twice in a week and hung it up. I got a family.
The same demographic that apparently believes with every ounce of their soul that they won’t be able to explain why “woke” is wrong to their children to the point they need to abandon their long-professed belief in small government.
Just fill your time by being the guy who replies “unfortunately this niche group of people I don’t belong to can’t use your advice” on every ask post reply. Some people really get a thrill out of it.
Like for instance if someone asks how they can stay hydrated and somebody replies water you could say “unfortunately some people don’t have access to clean water”, and then just let the upvotes roll in because it’s technically true. It’s going to make you feel worse in the short term because you’ll know what you’re doing, but you won’t recognize that right away or maybe ever so it’s probably a viable strategy for a month.
Name a time when people wanted to work. Did slave owners want to work?
Everybody’s like : we need to build more apartment complexes and duplexes. No, we need to outlaw landlords.
It was a lot easier to save money when you had to wait 6-8 weeks to get things.
I would encourage you to explore the true driving cause of why delayed gratification is rare today. I would hate to advertise my point to you in a way that could influence your findings so I’ll leave it at that.
Hey good for you, nobody should care they put ads in email because you have a temporary solution where you don’t see ads and Adblock gets your data.
Oh shit you didn’t know you were Adblock’s product. How do they know which ads to block for you? How do they know? Oh they block certain ad servers? But it’s not logged I’m sure. You checked.
Gmail has ads in it. They’re stealing your data and training their D-tier AI on your emails and still showing you ads and you just take it.
Fun fact: one of the ways government agencies cut costs is mandatory purchasing contracts with companies that use prison labor.
Storm Lake is over 50% Latino. I am not aware of a Mexican restaurant there that is better than Iowa city’s worst option.
That’s why I only use brand. Nobody ever had a bad time with brand. Users of bad brand are dumb because they don’t use brand.
There always will be a divide between those who use technology as a means to an end and those whose end is technology.
If you think I’m taking a “side” with that statement you’re the latter.
If you think that’s a dig at anyone it’s probably because you think people care what phone you have, or that I’m trying to sneakily insinuate that you’re not doing anything by installing another flavor of Linux so you can get your dock to line up perfectly the way you want it to.
If you think people care what phone you have it’s probably because you know people who do.
If you think you have to be around those people I’m here to tell you I don’t know anyone who cares about what phone I have.
Thanks. I understand. Maybe in the future you will be successful getting into nature or maybe you will find something that is even better for you personally. I believe you’ll find what you need.
You need to toot your own horn until you can find someone who will toot it for you. Sometimes that means going above and beyond, but make sure the right people know what you did.
Nobody is going to give you what you don’t ask for.
Aligning action with these two things in mind will take you far.