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_bcron ,

Be me

Download Pokemon Go

Start running to work

Gotta catch them all

4 months later run a 50K

“What was your training like?”

“I dunno, run more?”

(true story back in 2022)

SuDmit ,

Given that’s a greentext, legitimately expected anon to somehow get injured or killed by some not paying attention driver on unsafe road or something. Glad he didn’t.

grandma ,

> be me

> live in a relatively new part of town in the Netherlands

> bike 20 minutes to the city center

> no hills or mountains because netherlands

> See almost no cars because most bike routes are completely seperated and shorter than car routes

> Park my bike in a surveilled parking area funded by the city

> Do all my shopping for the day and return

> MFW my friends and family don’t even realize how good we have it

zalgotext ,

So how easy is it for an American to move to the Netherlands? Asking for myself

abbadon420 ,

I guess it’s easy enough, but good luck finding a house.

RecursiveParadox ,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

If you are skilled labor, yes: expatica.com/…/the-dutch-30-ruling-explained-1016…

But what @abbadon420 said is equally true. Housing market’s fucked beyond belief. Now, if you want to WFH and live out in the sticks, you’d be set.

Mojave ,

My job is 18 mountainy miles away, and when I show up drenched in bicycle sweat everyone in the office says I smell bad

MindTraveller ,

People shouldn’t live that far away from their workplaces. They didn’t used to, before we invented shitboxes.

Mojave ,

I would love to live 5 minutes away from my workplace

But I saved about $300,000 on my mortgage when I bought a more rural house that isn’t near the city/my office building

MindTraveller ,

If it’s cheaper to live in the middle of nowhere, with water and electricity and internet needing to be piped all that way out there, and the gas bills, and the road wear, then the government has failed. High and medium density housing costs the government less in maintenance, stimulates the economy, and is cheaper to build. Any functioning economy would price those homes cheaper. If you’re saving 300,000 by costing the government all that extra money and polluting the environment, someone fucked up on a colossal scale.

RecursiveParadox ,
@RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world avatar

You could get a decent e-bike?

echodot ,

I do think it’s funny that America has the worst traffic in the western world, yet in Europe we can get by just fine with roads built by people that even the Romans considered to be ancient.

bionicjoey , (edited )

That’s because Europeans invest in all forms of transport, so you don’t get people who can’t fathom the concept of taking any trip from point A to B in anything other than a car.

Edit: not sure why I’m getting downvoted. I think Europe does it way better if that wasn’t obvious

Schmuppes ,

Would be great if Europe actually invested in all forms of transport. Where I live, the rail system is run into the ground instead of getting maintenance and expansion.

bionicjoey ,

Compared to Canada you guys have it phenomenally good.

Schmuppes ,

Sorry.

Hildegarde ,

Yes, but you have a rail system.

Empricorn ,

It has to be said that people from one place underestimate the other…

In Europe, 100 miles is a long distance.
In America, 100 years is a long time.

Damage ,

Too bad for the lung cancer

drkt ,
@drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0048969701007586

The car owners are getting their cancer air, not bicyclists.

Habahnow ,

Pretty cool study. Shame its so small of a sample size, but it shows some very positive signs.

Damage ,

Idk, I used to cycle to work a lot before changing jobs, and I’ve got to tell you, the fumes I felt in my throat were more noticeable than anything I’ve ever experienced in my car. Plus when exercising you simply breathe more.

drkt ,
@drkt@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

ig.ft.com/sites/urban-cycling/

airqualitynews.com/…/higher-air-pollution-health-…

theguardian.com/…/children-risk-air-pollution-car…

theguardian.com/…/cyclists-exposed-to-less-air-po…

standard.co.uk/…/university-of-leeds-study-finds-…

theguardian.com/…/smoking-in-cars-banned-but-chil…

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0091743516000402

www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0048969701007586

zloubida ,
@zloubida@lemmy.world avatar

That just prove how much we are accustomed to the polluted air in our cars, and not to the less but still polluted air outside.

Lemminary ,

Ngl, I have a nice ass and legs. Nice compliments, too! It’s worth it to bike everywhere if your city allows it

I forgot to mention that the cost of repairs is also dirt cheap here.

jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

pics or it didn’t happen

Lemminary ,

I’ll let these babes do the talkin’

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/46aadbfb-cdeb-4d0c-98d9-a50b66a19cee.png

doingthestuff ,

I can’t bicycle anywhere. Well, at least my commute would be certain death, There is a nice bike trail a few miles away but I’d have buy a bike and a rack for my car to haul it over there. Can barely afford the car.

goldenoreo ,

Depending on your personal circumstances you might not need a rack. I always just take the front wheel off (quick release) and shove my bike in the back seat

Mac , (edited )

1 gal of gas: ~29k calories - $4.609
~29k calories of rice: ~$600 <-- sus math btw 🤔

It’s simple: drink the gas.

okay, update:
my math was wrong. new cost of rice: ~$11.5 (ordering in bulk)

CONCLUSION
Drink the gas.

rockerface ,

If you drink a whole canister of gas, that’s enough to cover your nutritional needs for the rest of your life!

Speculater ,
@Speculater@lemmy.world avatar

BRB

qwen ,

100 grams of raw white rice is 365 calories, meaning that it’s about 3650 calories per kg. 29k calories of rice is 8 kilograms.

Where are you buying rice that it costs $75/kg???

Mac , (edited )

I did my math wrong lol

Found some at 66c/lb. Need 17.5 lbs. $11.5 👌

MindTraveller ,

Yeah but I don’t have to carry an actual ton of weight on my bike.

Except when I’m taking yo mama home after date night

Mac ,

stfu nerd
My mom has lost a ton of weight and im v proud of her 😡

MindTraveller ,

Okay I’m sorry that was mean

theangryseal ,

I meeeeaaan, she lost that actual ton before you started biking her around and she’s still somehow fat. Someone had to say it. You shouldn’t apologize.

JayDee ,

If you bike regularly, you actually don’t spend more calories. You only see calorie burn uptick when first taking on new exercise, which falls off over time back to your usual normal calorie cost. Because of this, that calorie cost for a biker is calorie intake they’d already consume even if they didn’t bike. It’s essentially free, in contrast to the gas of the car which is always a cost.

Checkmate liberal. /s

Mac ,

You can’t convince me of free energy

NICE TRY SCIENTOLOGY

jaycifer ,

There was a Kurzgesat video about this a couple weeks ago. Apparently if you don’t spend calories exercising/biking, your body will find other ways to burn it like increasing your immune system activity (which can have poor long-term effects). There’s an adjustment period when you do start exercising where energy is still spent on sedentary things and the actual exercise before the former is reduced to mostly match the latter.

I have also read that regular exercise can lead to an increase of base metabolic rate by ~5% though, which is like an extra 100 calories per day.

jabathekek ,
@jabathekek@sopuli.xyz avatar

https://i.postimg.cc/13vkzKy4/Classic-None-My-Business-Sip.gif

> be me

> be downtown on bicycle

> actual protected bike lanes

> zipping past hundreds of people that decided to drive for some reason

> bumper to bumper traffic

> road capacity literally maxed out

> honking and yelling at almost every intersection

pic related

ladicius ,

And park directly in the immediate front of the building I’m visiting. No circling around and around a without finding a space to park my overly expensive rust box. Just arrive, lock the bike to a post and be there.

Totally different experience in that aspect alone.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Hm… Is there any law that says I can’t ride my bike in the store? 🤔

Sure would make shopping faster.

SufniDroid ,

idk about bikes, but I saw some madlads rolling slowly on their electric scooters in shops

HappyRedditRefugee ,

where I live is quite common to ride bikes for transportation, lots of places have stickers disallowing riding the bikes in the buidings

You can still take the bike in in some cases, but not ride it.

GissaMittJobb ,

Actual unironic gigachad moment

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