• Lemmeenym@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    My mind can’t comprehend those walking and biking numbers. The walking is about 70 miles a day. That’s more than double the average distance of a one day ultra marathon done everyday for a month and a half. The biking distance is about 255 miles a day. Roughly 2.5x the average daily distance for the Tour de France. I want to meet the people who can do that.

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      8 months ago

      I believe it’s assuming you’re not taking breaks, in which case I think they’re a bit more reasonable is expected walking speed but perhaps less reasonable in regards to a persons ability to go without sleeping :)

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      8 months ago

      It takes me 20 minutes to walk one mile at a normal pace. That would mean walking pretty much the whole 24 hours.

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    8 months ago

    The real thing that breaks the Euro mind about this is that you go all that way and cross 3 rails, all quite close together all things considered

    #america

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      8 months ago

      It’s cause on that route the rails are over/under passes

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      if you are on an expressway, and often roads smaller, usually grade crossings are avoided if possible. either the rail is on a bridge, and the road dips under, or the road is on a bridge and crosses the rail. it won’t show as a hazard on the route in either of those cases.

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        8 months ago

        It’s also insanely inconsistent about showing them depending on zoom level when you look at the same route

        I was just making a joke at our piss poor rail systems expense

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          You are still not wrong about our rail system, god forbid a passenger train hold up a freight train for one second, won’t someone think of the shareholders???

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      8 months ago

      Most railways are privately owned by freight companies which passenger trains must also use. Because of this, freight trains always get priority for using the rail first while passenger trains have to wait for the line to clear before proceeding.

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      8 months ago

      That’s about 1609 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458th of a second.

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          That sucks - I keep hearing that kind of thing from more and more people, the last person telling me that in Canada. Fwiw, it is a Saturday Night Live sketch, poking fun at ourselves as to how we inconsistently use measurement schemes, like some less popular sports use meters, but the most popular ones use the English ones like feet. I wonder why it is blocked, wherever you are.

          If anyone knows, I would be interested in hearing: like should I not share YouTube videos anymore these days? Or only share/avoid certain corporate types? (Whereas certain others such as CPG Grey’s videos would truly be a tragic loss if they could not be shared) I presume Piped videos would likewise be blocked too? Are they blocked only in certain countries, or like most ones outside of the USA? Is the URL still useful, like to put into Vanced or some such, or would something else help better like the title, or again should I just not share them? I don’t know any of these answers but in any case, thank you for sharing with me your experience here.

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            I presume Piped videos would likewise be blocked too?

            It depends which proxy piped.video happens to use at the moment. It’s a dice throw as far as I can see… I successfully watched the video this morning but neither yesterday nor right now the video is loading for me.

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    8 months ago

    The selected route has tolls in Kansas. The northern route will be pretty similar but free, at least until Illinois, I’ve never gone beyond that.