Lemmy has no chill lol. We might even be more prudish than Reddit. My guess is our demographic skews older so people here don’t care for “dank” content as much.
Or just maybe people don’t like going on their social media to be blasted by slurs and porn. Sometimes we just want the funky little guys to post funky little things y’ know
Bah. I don’t have a car and go to national parks “nearby” (about 100 km) using my bike and one thing that I find unfortunate is the lack of public transit to those places. So usually, what one can find at the bottom of a hiking trail, is a parking full of cars.
It’s not a matter of politics but more about car culture. Like, watch any YT vlogger and most will go to their hiking trails with a car, or even a truck, exclaiming that they love nature.
Personally I have to make compromises when I invite someone hiking and/or camping. That means leaving the bike home and going to the trail or the camp site with a car. It’s unfortunate but it’s just how most people see spending time in nature.
Sounds like a failure to set good expectations. Sure there are times people just don’t listen, but if everyone else is saying this kind of thing, maybe there’s a common factor…
Idk man my parents were always dragging me to shit I didn’t want to go to when I was younger. Yeah I knew beforehand what it was but it’s more of a “we’re doing this” rather than a “do you want to do this?”
Everything is possible in Fantasyland that happens exclusively in your brain.
Why does it make more sense to assume his entire family for some reason drove out there without listening than that he never told them what it’s about in the first place?
Unlike with longer distances and temperature, Americans don’t strictly use imperial for shorter distances (m, cm, mm). It’s on all of the signs and stuff, but we learn metric in school as well as how to convert to and from. In university-level physics classes, they almost solely use metric. So as an American myself, I didn’t bat an eye at him using meters. But if they said that it was 30C outside…
It helps that meters and yards are very similar in size. Of course they drift as the distances get larger but in my mind 300m is a pretty reasonable thing to visualize. Just a tad larger than 300yd—about 3 football fields (Inb4 stereotype)
Km though? I still struggle to compare it to a mile. When someone says “50km” my mind has a hard time imperializing it. What’s that, like 35 miles?
Maybe memorizing how the km lines up with the mi on my car speedometer would help.
I guess as long as it works it works. I don’t have to do much of those conversions though. Here in Norway we are metric in almost all of our measurements. Except for some specialist measures like a carton of eggs is a dozen. We often say things happened a fortnight or so ago, etc.
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