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take the bus
This is a complete fiction, right?
When I was 330 lbs. (150kg) it would take me 30 minutes to walk a mile, and I would be post-exercise dumb for at least 30 more. You don't want to the post-exercise dumb for class (taking or teaching).
Now (225 lbs. [~102kg]), it would still take me about 15 minutes to walk it, tho at that pace my HR wouldn't significantly increase, and I might decide to take the bus instead, if there's any sort of weather.
For everyone, I'd like to point out that the bones on this man were the same size, carrying 150kg vs carrying 100kg. They would continue to be the same size at 70 or 60kg.
Imagine, the next time you wonder how fat people have poor health outcomes: the same 10 square centimeters of bone in the legs could be carrying 40, 50, or a full 100 kg of weight. Or worse, the cross section of cartilage between the bones. Or worse. More weight than that.
How do you know they are a man?
Thanks. Yes I get it. I am projecting too much of my own experience here.
???? Free college buses around campus in the winter time is dope what's the problem
Does it feel better if you say it's a shuttle instead?
If it's a campus bus it's almost certainly free, and probably timed to class schedules. If you only have 10m or so between classes it makes sense.
Free bus and constant buses arriving? Why not.
I've known people who have taken the subway/metro to get between classes on the same campus, so this is still plausible
Eh, 1 mile is pretty far when carrying a heavy backpack. If it's free, I'd take the bus.
Pfft. When I was young, I had to walk to TWO schools while carrying TWO heavy backpacks. The bus wasn't free because buses were still feral vehicles that tried to kill us on our way to school.
Colleges love to flex their local bus service. Especially if it’s a big campus in the north.
I mean depends on the weather and how much time you have. I have a shop I go to regularly about 5-10 minutes walking distance away. Some days I just don't feel like walking and take the bus. If she had to go there more than once per week I can completely understand some days just not feeling like it.
Yeah fair enough really. Again I don't know what's going in everyone's life so I shouldn't judge.
But really everyone's a weakling these days, except me of course. I'm very tough (I drive a cybertruck)
Why? Do you live in america or something where bus infrastructure is bad?
I'm moderately flabbergasted that you'd consider anything other than walking for that kind of distance.
But I don't know the particulars here so maybe I should have kept my thought for myself.
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I took the bus for those distances several times when in college.
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Wait, we're discussing the wrong thing entirely.
This woman took the bus for a one mile hike while she was in college? Like, in her twenties she looked at the prospect of walking for just over a kilometer and a half, a distance you can apparently cover by bike faster than by bus, and she went "nah, I need mechanical help for that".
This happened in the US, didn't it?
Do you take the escalator, or do you walk up the stairs ?
What a weakling you are for choosing the escalator.
I walk up the escalator.
Or, if it's so busy that you can't comfortably do that I take the stairs.
I also take the stairs instead of the elevator at home because it's only a handful of floors and man, I am already old, decaying and extremely out of shape. My knees would fuse solid otherwise.
Oooo ByGorou u got f'd uuuup!!
No, but unseriously, why shame people for being complacent? Maybe semi-seriously; like, 35% seriously, at best.
Edit: And maybe more seriously but still mostly casually uncaring, you never know what lives other people leave. Also, a campus shuttle is actually amazing if you think about it. Personally, I'd rather be able to do a nice busride to class, but I'm well aware that I can't waste valuable sleep time with that. And, risk being stinky around other people? No thanks. Also, having to deal with upkeep, storage, and security of a bike? Blegh. It would be cool though to live in a culture that both had the bikes and infrastructure, and didn't have the thievery.
Also, you gotta remember, a lot of the US is very far apart and is so imbued with car culture and infrastructure. Plus, we, like the rest of humans, just can't deal with our problems, and just had another major ~~setback~~ existential challenge.
Man, since you want me at 35% serious I'll come clean and say that when I poked at Americans I genuinely didn't think the response would be "greentext isn't real and she didn't exist but also she is my cousin and I know for a fact she was disabled and she NEEDS that bus". I don't know if I should own the trolling and not acknowledge that the only part of it that worked was the splash zone and not the direct impact.
But also, the OP explicitly says the distance was one mile. I know the US is big, but I didn't realize it was big because universal expansion had made one mile larger than it is elsewhere. I guess that explains a lot.
It also explains a lot that "a bike chain" is "upkeep, storage and security" and that a ten minute walk is wasted sleep time that makes you stinky.
Alright, alright, let me get back to being somewhat real for a second. I've been to the US a bunch and I don't have a driver's license, so I walk everywhere and it's genuinely shocking to me both how poor walking infrastructure is, but also to what degree Americans consider anything not directly next door to be "not walking distance". I get that it's cultural, but it's also deceptively soul crushing. I refuse to leave the house unless it's on fire and I still find spending time in many areas of the US physically distressing. And Canada, too, don't think that having competent health care and a few extra busses means it's different over there.
Escalators really aren't that common where I live. The architecture is mainly regular stairs and then there's a lift somewhere nearby for disabled people.
A few malls built in the late 90's/early 00's tried emulating the American escalator mall look but it didn't really take off.
My university was literally all uphill from dorms with traffic and 90 degree heat. You took the fucking bus.
I'm sure the physically disabled students at that college appreciate you letting them know that you think one mile is too short for a bus ride
Are we counting obesity as one of those disabilities?
Lemmy: Cars are a plague and shouldn't exist, communities need functional public transit
Also Lemmy: Someone used public transit when they could have walked? Pathetic.
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Fwiw as far as the reasonableness of taking a bus 1 mile, that's 16 minutes at a brisk walk. Less at a very fast walk. Depending on traffic, number of stops, etc., a bus could take about 10 minutes to go the same distance, probably less. So you're definitely saving time, even if it's not a huge amount. You're also saving effort and sweat, depending on how fast you go and the weather.
When I was in uni, I would regularly walk the 1.2 km to campus. But I would catch a bus the 1.8 km (remembering that a mile is 1.6) to the shops. Because it's a hot unshaded route with a significant uphill. Plus I had to carry the shopping. Whereas the walk to uni was flat, shady, and I rarely had to carry more than just a laptop. And also there literally wasn't a bus that could take me.
So yeah, depending on how all the specifics fit together, I don't see anything wrong with taking a bus 1.6 km.
American infrastructure is so heavily skewed against pedestrians in pretty much every city that isn't NYC. While large college campuses tend to be more pedestrian friendly, it still isn't great. And since most Americans aren't walking a mile everyday, when you then couple that with a backpack with materials needed for two different college classes like textbooks, laptop and charger, or notebooks and pens, it can be difficult for some ti walk that distance for whatever reason.
I don't know why people are still surprised that the country designed to punish people who are too poor to afford a car has so little pedestrian and cycling.
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In the Netherlands, students get free public transport. If there's a bus coming that you can use for free, why not?
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It could be cold, windy, or really hot out. Or she doesn't want to walk a mile with all her school stuff, or she doesn't have great mobility. Also there are plenty of 30+ people going to college
It could also just be made up, maybe stop looking to get outraged
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