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For what its worth: He made it to NY last Saturday.
Wow, seriously? What a trek.
Two weeks, huh? The US is around 3,000 miles from coast to coast, so that puts him over 200 miles skateboarding every single day… I’m not sure, but the person who didn’t know mountains exist might be dumb.
Just go faster. I don’t get it.
Paint the skateboard red if you have to.
Add a stripe. Maybe some speed holes.
he should have invest in a big red firework like the coyote
Go faster stripes FTW!
Add a lightning bolt. Kachow!
Paint a tunnel on the side of the mountain. Easy.
Silly humie
Paint it yella to make it shootyer
"I’m crouching as hard as I can!”
200miles/8hours of skating straight means an average speed of 25 miles an hour.
Ambitious, considering the average speed of a skateboarder is closer to 10 miles an hour, but it could be possible if he was extremely fit, had unbreakable bones, and the US was a flat plane for 3000 miles like this guy thought.
If he’s illiterate we don’t need to call him dumb
Also allegedly the Rockies, not all mountains… we hope
I doubt he is being labelled “dumb” due to being illiterate.
Doing no research prior to setting out is a great reason to call him dumb.
Though lack of research because you can’t read is a bit of a speed bump in the whole “doing research” process
Yes, but people 40 years ago managed. Youtube and a friend that can read. Hell asking random strangers their opinions on what the challenges of skateboarding across the country are.
You’re not wrong!
I will say, I learned stuff like that to be a good idea through a productive education system which also helped me learn to read
Little tiny baby speedbump
Maybe this is explained somewhere if I could be bothered to research it, but how can he be actually illiterate?
He has an instagram account. How is he reading anything to do with it if he’s illiterate? Sub numbers, password resets, comments? How would he even know people are watching if he can’t read numbers?
Illiteracy is not binary. If he reads at a second grade level (sounding out, length of word and difficulty of spelling being barriers to correct reading)
Apparently, Chad Caruso set the Guinness world record as the first person to skateboard across America in 2023, from Venice Beach to Virginia Beach. It took him 57 days to cover 3,162 miles, adventure adventure of 55 miles a day.
adventure adventure!
The best kind of adventure
I don’t think he knows about second adventure.
Always need more adventure
Rob Thomson skated across the US starting in 2006. Also from Switzerland to China.
I have a photo from that trip handing up poster size in my house. A random waterfall panorama.
That’s actually not nearly as long as I would’ve expected. Pretty impressive.
Bit over 2 weeks but doable
how did he skate up and over the Rockies?
My guess is that hitchhiking+skateboarding means grabbing an actual moving trailer hitch or three. Were he manually kicking the pavement with zero assistance, I cannot imagine covering 55 miles a day without it being downhill the entire time. After all, it is F L A T after you cross the Rockies. For at least a thousand miles. That or he has legs like tree trunks.
Fun fact: mountains are big.
Not-so-fun fact: He’ll have to be rescued with taxpayer money
For what its worth: He made it to NY today. No rescue required. The community helped him out along the way.
Awesome! I’m glad they made it. I’d never dare to set off like that without a huge backpack stuffed with a week’s worth of food
He has a skateboard though
And the skateboard is the fastest way to get around Lego Island
You’ve just triggered a memory. Something about vehicles zooming around Lego Island. Were you able to get out of them while they were moving so that they kept going?
Oh I have no idea, I remember very little of that game. Something about a helicopter crash and a race you had to use the skateboard for. It was the fastest vehicle.
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I don’t believe so, no
Probably will find a half pipe somewhere.
Mountain valleys are nature’s halfpipes writ large.
Boring fact: The highest pass he’ll have to cross on his journey looks like this:
If he’ll have to be rescued, then because someone ran him over.
Could also get snowed in somewhere or unable to get to shelter during a major storm.
I mean he should get to the East Coast around 70 days from now, what are the chances he’ll see snow before January 30th. Guess he can turn around and ride back through the Appalachian Mountains in February. No snow there right?
Meanwhile a normal mountain pass in the normal world:
That’s just the section of the map for drift challenges
What does this mean?
Probably that the US is No. 1 in paving straight over every available surface. And that they will move mountains to do it apparently.
We have a lot of mountains. But seriously while I’d prefer trains (which would likely require the same deal), the interstate makes sense for this. Overland shipping in this country often uses it (once again, stupid compared to trains). And it’s important to understand that the interstate isn’t a public works project, it’s with GPS in the category of military infrastructure that’s open for public use
Another fact: Society failed to educate him properly using taxpayer money.
Perhaps society deserves to face the consequences of its actions.
I agree with you and have even more to add -
Even more fun fact - the taxpayer money that will likely eventually be used to rescue this person, potentially saving their life, is an infinitesimal waste compared to so very many other things. I’m not ever going to shame someone or expect them to be billed/prosecuted/etc for their rescue unless they criminally broke the law in order to arrive at that state. (and maybe not even then)
What about small mountains tho
You keep your mouth shut
Aren’t those hills tho
Source?
One change of clothes for a 2-week trip… now that’s a man’s man!
I mean it’s not extremely far off compared to Ultralight hiking, you can still be hygienic (like often washing clothes), of course though you’re not winning parfume contests along the way… It’s a tradeoff to make compared to having a lot of uncomfortable weight to carry around.
Extra socks and underwear would probably be a good call, but wear one, wash the other and let it dry either overnight or throughout the day.
Does he carry a Texas sized bottle of French cologne?
I don’t want to be his room mate.
Cologne is in Germany, not France you silly goose!
French cologne, my ass! He wears WAAAAAAY to much Axe Body Spray like a patriotic American bro who doesn’t understand geography should.
Axe Body Spray. Guaranteed.
Almost certain they were playing it up and this is satire, sorry to spoil everyone’s fun. https://www.instagram.com/jaayfilms They started again on September 30 this year and are now in Missouri. If these content creators are good at one thing it’s creating a compelling narrative and this guy did it by getting himself called illiterate.
Oh shit, he’s in the home state of illiteracy now
I’ll admit there is a part of me thats relieved.
Same, I was full. Ahh. That’s better.
Nothing ever happens
“If Forrest Gump can do it, so can I”
Gump didn’t even have a skateboard
From the sound of it, the skateboarding guy must have never watched Forrest Gump. He would have known it would take more than 2 weeks, just by seeing Gump’s beard grow.
Nuhuh. that movie took only 2 hours and 22 minutes, and that walking sequence took up about 10~20 minutes, he just has really strong beard growth when he walks. If Forrest can do it in 20 minutes, I should be able to do it in 2 weeks! /jk
The fastest growing beard alive!
His name: Barry Allen
The late great Forrest Gump?
I met a guy like that in the 90’s except he was on a lot of LSD and was making his way around the world. IDK if that was true but my buddy picked him up one night and we had a party with him and he cut his dreads off and burned them so a witch wouldn’t get them. Good times!
Who cut whose dreads off?
The traveling dude cut his dreads with my buddies help
That must’ve smelled horrible.
The dreads were magic, and you helped him free him self, and now he works a white collar job
How does he use IG?
Assuming its not a parody.
You’d be surprised how functional the illiterate can be.
When I first moved to Japan, I had to use lots of websites that used untranslatable images (not text, like png or whatever and google lens was not a thing). I got help a few times and memorized what clicking on an area did more than even what the image was (which would change sometimes). This is how I got by with ATMs and various websites for quite a while. It works until something changes. Today, screen readers, google lens, and other things exist to help as well.
Sounds like just learning to read would be a better use of your time then. I mean if you already speak the language it should be fairly trivial, right?
I literally started with “When I first moved to Japan”.
To answer your question, though, learning to read Kanji is not trivial especially when each one can have a number of different pronunciations or appear in compounds where the meaning can be quite different.
Laughs in Kanji
笑
You do realise that in Japan they don’t use Roman letters?! Sounds are one thing, a pictorial based writing system quite another! Just as in English, the same sounding word can mean several things, so the same spelt word can mean several things in Asian languages!
Using a screen reader
You’d be surprised how little IG users can read.
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You’d be functional how surprised can be the illiterate.
Functional be you’d illiterate can surprised the be how.
Cant seem to find this dude on ig, there are just too many that tried to cross the usa with a board.
Does someone have a link to this specific persons ig? That would be great, thanks.
What are you using to take that screenshot? It looks like a phone but the aspect ratio is like a square
Samsung Z fold 5
One of us! One of us! One of us!
Probably one of those new folding phones?
Foldable, OnePlus Open
Folding device?
To the dude’s credit, he appears to be still at it, skateboarding across the country. He apparently posted a ‘day 50’ video.
So it sounds to me like whoever made that post did him dirty.
It didn’t say he gave up. Maybe we all did him dirty in how we interpreted that description.
Day 52 in Missouri, dudes committed
Thanks for the detective work! I know TTS software is a thing now, but he even has a gmail account… How (un)likely is it that it’s just a publicity stunt (money grab)?
I’m not great at this, but from the original x post, I think his handle is @jaayfilms
The news report video says he dropped out of HS. I couldn’t find where he got that he’s illiterate, thought this would take two weeks and didn’t know about the mountains… But I honestly didn’t dig much after haha. If someone else finds it, please let me know. I just want to read that comment thread haha
I feel like a longboard would be better for this.
No need to board shame him. He’s just rocking with what he’s got. It’s not the size of the board, it’s the motion on the pavement.
If the longboard is the length of the US and he mounts it, does that count? Does he have to walk the length on the longboard? I have so many (very stupid) questions!
That voter is gonna learn some stuff.
I was not surprised by the presence of a giant cross necklace.
He can’t read, so that makes sense.
Well, if you’re following him, did you bring more clothes? Maybe you can lend him some.
That guys vote counts the same as yours. Just saying.
If he’s from California then my vote counts a little more because my state has less population. The smaller the state’s population the more their vote counts.
Democracy!
Wyoming has the lowest population.
Makes sense why candidates spend all their time trying to get these powerful voters on their side. Those 3 electoral votes really makes it the most powerful swing state.
Someone in Wyoming has more electoral votes to their votes, yes. And I believe that is the point you’re making.
If everyone in Wyoming voted for Candidate A. Candidate A has basically the same chance of winning or losing.
If everyone in California voted for Candidate A. Candidate A has a lot better chance of winning.
It’s more powerful to be able to vote in something that actually matters than to vote in something that doesn’t.
You could just not count any votes in Wyoming and still call the overall winner 99.999% of the time. It would have to come down to 3 electoral votes tie breaker for their votes to even matter. Whereas every vote in California always matters.
Like in this last election. If Harris won every “swing state”. But Trump could have won California and he’d win the election.
Electoral college has It’s pros and cons but “The smaller the state’s population the more their vote counts.” Isn’t true.
It’s the middle size, “swing states”, that the voters have the most powerful.
You aren’t a drop in the bucket like California, but your state has enough electoral votes to actually swing things.
It wasn’t about how much the states electoral votes matter, but how much a single persons vote matters in the entire election.
If 50.000 people in California changes their vote it hardly matters. If 50.000 people in wyoming do that, it heavily influences the outcome of who wyoming votes for.
1 person in wyoming matters more than 1 person in California.
It wasn’t about how much the states electoral votes matter, but how much a single persons vote matters in the entire election.
How electoral votes matter is the whole point. If it was done by pure population they would have equal voting power. They do not have equal voting power because the electoral votes matter.
1 person in Wyoming makes more difference in how Wyoming election turns out. Less population, more influence.
There are 538 electoral votes divided over 50 states
Wyoming has 3
California has 54
Wyoming has 584k people
California has 39m people
In Wyoming each voters has 5.137E-6 electoral votes to cast
In California each voters has 8.98305085E−7 electoral votes to cast
Now winner takes all electoral votes aside. Someone in Wyoming is contributing more electoral votes to their candidate than someone in California.
This is what’s always argued when talking about voting power based on population
If the candidate needs 270 to win, if I am able to give more to a candidate with my vote, my vote is more powerful in a way.
There has been two elections decided by 3 electoral votes. 1876 Hayes and 1796 Adams. Total electoral votes at the time were 261 and 138, respectively. It would be equivalent to winning by 6 and 12 votes today with the 538 electoral votes. So while it was 3, those 3 votes meant a lot more back then when it was 3/261 or 3/138.
If 50.000 people in California changes their vote it hardly matters. If 50.000 people in wyoming do that, it heavily influences the outcome of who wyoming votes for.
Like I said earlier, yes, Wyoming voters have more influence on who wins their electoral votes and they have more electoral votes per person
California with 53 electoral votes is a 106 point swing. Taking 53 electoral votes from the winning candidate and giving it to the runner up would change the majority of all the elections.
Think of it this way:
2 states just California and Wyoming. California has 53 votes, Wyoming 3.
56 votes total. Need 29 votes to win.
Biggest issue the candidates are running on is spending money on beaches.
Candidate A: For spending
Candidate B: Against spending
California wants A, Wyoming wants B.
If what you’re saying is true, then Wyoming should have the most power in this election because each of their votes count more than a person in California.
584k deciding 3 electoral votes vs 39m deciding 53 electoral votes
Yet every single person in Wyoming could vote candidate B, and it’s still going to be up to California to decide
So would you want to be a voter in Wyoming or California?
California because your vote doesn’t matter in Wyoming. No matter who you vote for in Wyoming, California is going to decide. You want to be able to cast your vote in California to hopefully swing the state
If you gave those 584k Wyoming voters the chance to not cast their vote in Wyoming but instead cast their vote in California against the 39m, they would be wise to do it. Doesn’t matter where 3/56 electoral votes go, it matters much more where the 53/56 electoral votes go.
So yes, while each voter in California has less effect on the California electoral votes. California has more effect on the total electoral votes.
Being able to participate in a more important election is worth more than having more influence in an election that is next to meaningless.
tldr
TLDR:
Only 2 states to simplify things
Wyoming 3 EV
California 53 EV
56 EV total, 29 EV need to win
Wyoming still has more EV per capita
California wants Candidate B
Wyoming wants Candidate A
Who decides the election? (California)
If what you’re saying is that the smaller population with more EV per capita has more pull in an election, then Wyoming would actually have a shot at making Candidate A win by themselves.
California has 53/538 EV.
California controls 10% of the total EVs
Wyoming controls .06%
TLDR again:
As a voter, being able to effect 10% of the total EVs is more powerful than being able to effect .06%.
You’re missing the point. The viewpoint in the argument is from a single voter. One vote in wyoming weighs more than one vote in California
The idea behind wisdom of the crowd is that the people who don’t know the answer cancel each other out. It’s the reason why the audience joker on who wants to be a millionaire is so powerful.
Wisdom of the crowds works when people are making somewhat educated guesses. It falls apart though if everybody groups themselves into camps that either think A or B and no other option because their camp leader has told them that they think A or B
This might not be true. Depending on where you live, your vote could be worth about 0.8th of what this guys vote is worth
Casper and Cheyenne Wyoming have the 75k most powerful voters in the country.
They control the same number of US Senators as the world’s 5th largest economy.
The fact that 75k can filibuster 40m is the peak of absurdity.
Devil’s advocate. We should only let a select few who we deem as intelligent to vote for us?
Such a shame. We ought to implement some type of criteria based on reading and comprehension skills that allows you to vote.
A literacy test, if you will.
we live in a society.
Not sure he does.
