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yofuckreddit
19hr ago
I've fantasized about the GDMBR myself, and met people training for it out in Pisgah NF. I think what I've learned about myself is that my limit for routes like this is probably 7-8 days. Perhaps with friends it would be longer, but they do slow you down. Would you race?
yofuckreddit
19hr ago
I believe a head unit is necessary for smooth travel on a bike (stopping to unsheathe your phone and find out where you are is a massive momentum killer) and I hate mounting my phone. Network connectivity was good most of the time, but not everywhere. The route contained useful POI notes as well for food, hotels, and shops.
I couldn’t go without music
My performance measurably dropped without it. I regret not loading my Zune or something, though a bluetooth adapter to the Shokz would have been a dongle nightmare. I won't make the sacrifice again, I'll figure some other methodology out if it's stopping more, a bigger power bank, or a dynamo.
yofuckreddit
19hr ago
Did you exclusively go to the cheapest hole-in-the-wall farmer's pubs?
Yes, the vast majority of my route passed exclusively through these and mountaintop restaurants. I saw zero risotto for 8 days, and was unbelievably happy with one of the higher-end meals I had that incorporated pasta. I passed through larger towns like Grindewald and things expanded dramatically for the back quarter of the route.
I did not visit a butcher shop either. My cooking utensils were limited to a camping stove. To put it bluntly: I know this method of travel did not give Switzerland the chance to flex its culinary muscles for me, and that I missed out on a lot.
yofuckreddit
19hr ago
You can't realistically tackle this route any time other than the dead of summer; the official race is in June. The weather was fantastic and analogous to an American spring. I had rain for the first few days, and then afterwards I was able to set up the tent without the rainfly almost every night.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
I was surprised about power being an issue and it was a bit of a self inflicted wound. I had a 10k mAh bank which is a lot. My phone's battery is old, and I came away deeply unimpressed with the Edge 840s battery life. I did use Ebike charging ports at restaurants sometimes. The euro concept of lunch was damaging to pace and time though. The German side was a 1.5 hour ordeal, the French side more.
I drank exclusively from faucets and filtered from streams only once. I think my infection could have come from a couple of different places. I normally have a strong stomach, I must have made a dumb mistake.
And yeah, I was right near what felt like the main strip. No beach but concrete steps into the water. Convenient to change into my unused bathing suit id carried with me.
yofuckreddit
1d ago
I think that doing it in the lower parts is an excellent idea, especially stringing together hotels and mid-size cities. Do so on the Italian part as well to save money and eat better food... It's a great plan
yofuckreddit
1d ago
My God man, showing up right after open and buying a whole pizza. I literally laughed out loud.
yofuckreddit
19d ago
This. Each winter I bemoan the dearth of raw public sexuality at the hands of an oppressive culture. In the summer I celebrate heat's power to exhibit the nubile.
Another advantage to living in the south and being capable of exercising in the apex of the day: the women jogging from 1-3 PM are very serious about being in shape and are shiny from a distance.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
You're more right than not! I'm most digitally loquacious after 2 beers.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
You know what? Actually, you're right. I've seen 2 fewer times so I was modifying my perception to account for it but after consideration 1 is superior.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
God, just the review summaries at the bottom. The way American LLMs simp the user to is just viscerally disgusting at this point.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
- I also keep an internal picture of everyone in my head.
- It's cheating since your picture is on your substack, but my internal vision was fairly accurate
- If you're not exhausted, I'll echo the clamor for "do me!"
yofuckreddit
24d ago
The music in Frozen 2 is better, but the plot is barely comprehensible, and I hate the characters. The tendrils of wokeness are too obvious: Anna treats Kristoff like shit, Elsa is selfish and navel-gazing, and surprise-surprise, the old whites murdering the native magical browns are why everything sucks.
It's obvious Frozen 1 was rushed out and had serious story thrash but at least it's earnest. My kids barely watch the sequel but will see 1 any time.
yofuckreddit
24d ago
I can tell the difference in Sodas. But it's hard to discern how much of that is the aluminum/lining vs glass as opposed to the sugar approach.
yofuckreddit
26d ago
Massive congrats. Probably ~5 years behind you which basically means it's so close I can almost taste it at this point.
yofuckreddit
27d ago
It's the weight for sure. The brake system is nice, but I just disabled the front brake on the priority and will get it on once I trust the kid a bit more.
A friend got the 14" (?) Guardian and it was still just too heavy. The Priority is both ligher and uses a belt drive, both major advantages for a similar price. The woom is unbelievably expensive but is also how light a kid's bike SHOULD be.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
I'm a huge supporter of it in moderation and conjunction with sincere appreciation and encouragement. I thank my kids for everything they do to help out, I let them know what teasing is and how to respond to it. If I'm shaming them for lack of ability, it's only because I know they can.
It's far too critical a tool in building a high-trust family to leave behind. Shouldn't a kid be at least a little ashamed of screaming or slamming the door to wake up a sibling? Wasting food they asked for and had someone prepare? Talking over someone telling a story?
I feel like we deal with way less BS than other parents because we are comfortable having calm corrective conversations with young kids. Maybe that's rose-colored glasses, maybe it'll be the wrong play long term, but right now it feels like a cheat code.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
This is exactly what I did. Eventually.
- Got a balance bike. But a cheap one with no handbrake, so it didn't really work on hills and was too small for a big kid.
- Got a training wheel bike. A grandparent got this without my real authorization, so it was ultra-heavy chinesium crap (heavier than my adult bikes) with awful geometry and impossible to pedal up hills. Led to a ton of frustration and balance anti-patterns.
- Splurged on a higher-end kids bike with handbrakes (In this case, I think you go with Priority or Woom. Guardian sucks). Used it as a balance bike. Added the pedals after a while. Voilia.
yofuckreddit
28d ago
Man, having kids is magical. Getting to see the first time a human decides to take responsibility for their own skill and proficiency is an unmatched feeling.
I took a more passive-aggressive approach. We live in a neighborhood with a ton of kids. While pulling my oldest around in a trailer, I pointed out the 3-year-old girls pedaling on their own without training wheels (admittedly rare and Asian) and that he was older, so he should be able to do it.
A week later he was up without training wheels, and the week after he was pedaling a 12-mile round trip.
Now to get his younger sibling to do the same...
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I am giggling like a schoolgirl. I'm sure the X team is feeling some heat, but to paraphrase Elon: If we're judging likelihood based on entertainment value, this was always going to happen.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
I'll mention that I went on a camping trip in the mountains a couple of months ago. I brought along a friend whose endurance broke down at a very specific (low) point and could go no further. Rain that was not in the forecast came down.... heavily. Very heavily. It was the most extreme thunderstorm of my life, and I was in a tent in a flood plain at night. I was so exhausted that I slept but when I woke the next morning I felt lucky.
The point being perhaps that even a relatively intelligent and well-equipped pack of adults can fuck up and roll the dice. I wish the girls wouldn't have been camping there, but a quick google suggests this is a 500-year rainfall. It just sucks.
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
Prostitution is still considered low class enough it's not really an option for someone so public
yofuckreddit
1mo ago
None that I know of, but the locations nearest to me are a drive. It's like a burger CFA in my opinion. The kid's burgers are the same size as their normal ones so if you're looking to save some $ that's the play.
Will speak as a fan.
MMA is really the only bloodsport I watch. First, I love the progression from the prelims to the main event, with the latter often being not worth watching at all. It's very fun to watch in a group with 8 light beers and a pizza showing up.
What it's not: A way to fantasize about my own fighting capability
What it is: A way to observe the pinnacle of human achievement in pain tolerance and performance. Making our bodies into weapons is an insane counterpoint to modern western living. Sure you can get like... 60% of that experience by being a traditional athlete, but nothing comes close to the insane violence in MMA. It gets my blood pumping, and even the women's events are a type of masculinity that the elites have done their best to smother everywhere.
No, I wouldn't, for many of the same reasons (including that I know I couldn't compete). As you mention, it may be fun to leave with everyone else.
One of the people I met training for it was a woman for whom it'd been a dream of for a long time. She was a traveling nurse and so had accumulated the PTO, and was running through Wilson's Ramble with her male boss to get ready. Her bf got jealous and she'd broken up with him because of it. I never really figured out how I felt about that at the end of the day, but I have a family with young children and was able to line this up. ~40+ days and 2 weeks are very different animals though.
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