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1 mile
take the bus
This is a complete fiction, right?
I actually did this at my US college.
I could take the bus which went 1 mile in 5 min which stopped outside my student apt complex.
Or I could walk for 45min along sidewalks around a couple city blocks and effectively walk like 4 miles to go one mile because there was no direct walking path through the residential neighborhood between my apartment and my college.
I wish I was lying
I don't know why everyone's going on about weather. 1 mile is a 20 minute walk. A bus can do it in 5. That's huge time savings regardless of the weather.
Fiction or American.
You think people take the bus in America?
Well they certainly don't walk
Not really. I used to take a bus every day to get to the metro station for a distance of only 1.5 km (0.93 mi). But to be fair it's because I was always on a tight schedule.
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.
Yeah, I'm still obese. I almost got down to overweight, I was within 3kg, but... I've had/been some setbacks. By height + BMI, I should be targeting 165lbs. / 75kg, but I'm still finding it impossible to stick to a diet that provides a calorie deficit. (I have in the past, but don't seem to now.)
My physical health is better by basically any metric. I encourage anyone that is overweight to lose it.
It can be a bit like climbing a mountain, sometimes you gotta stay at a certain height for a while to let your body acclimatise and get used to your new lifestyle.
Without a strict exercise routine it can get harder/slower the closer you get to that goal. I'd say don't beat yourself up, make maintenance the goal for a bit while making little changes until you're ready to push on.
That's great that you did lose weight, glad you feel better even if you haven't met your goal yet
Good job
How do you know they are a man?
My profile indirectly discloses that. I don't think it matters much for the story, but I am a cis white male.
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
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.
Does it feel better if you say it's a shuttle instead?
Colleges love to flex their local bus service. Especially if it’s a big campus in the north.
Eh, 1 mile is pretty far when carrying a heavy backpack. If it's free, I'd take the bus.
Wtf kind of school are you going to if you have a heavy packback? Unless you are taking welding equipment to school or something you really don't need much at all. School backpacks are usually pretty small.
Ever heard of textbooks? They tend to be quite heavy in my experience.
Sure its more than a few sheets of paper but a textbook is nothing compared to tent, sleeping bag, stove, fuel, water, food. Which is perfectly normal stuff that someone can pack into a bag and walk over 10 miles with.
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.
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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?
Wall-E is the future.
Do you take the escalator, or do you walk up the stairs ?
What a weakling you are for choosing the escalator.
Edit :
It seems that the irony got lost : most people just take the escalator for a mere 50 steps, just as most people would just take the bus if it's convenient. So all people in this thread shaming her are quite ridiculous.
As for me, I take the stairs instead of the elevator daily (5th floor) and wouldn't get on the bus because I have strong social anxiety.
Walk because its clear and I can get up it faster than waiting for the morons on the escalator that don't know how to use steps. Also I often have a bike with me and its easier to just lift that and walk up the stairs.
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.
That was meant to be ironic but it got lost it seems ;-;
What I meant was that, If you see stairs next to the escalator, most people just take the escalator. Same as if a bus is going where you are going to, most just take it without thinking.
I wanted to show that shaming her for taking the bus was ridiculous, just as shaming people taking the escalator instead of the stairs was ridiculous.
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.
You aren't wrong. I laughed out loud at universal expansion
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.
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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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
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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.
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