Why? Do you live in america or something where bus infrastructure is bad?
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drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
1 mile
take the bus
This is a complete fiction, right?
Katzenmann@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I’m moderately flabbergasted that you’d consider anything other than walking for that kind of distance.
But I don’t know the particulars here so maybe I should have kept my thought for myself.
frank@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I mean if the weather is TERRIBLE or I had a lot to carry I would consider a bus for the ~2 stops that is
easily3667@lemmus.org 4 weeks ago
This is a school, there no way the campus bus system has stops 1 km apart. More like every other block.
pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Non-american with great infrastructure here: For anything below 2 km I’m walking.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
1 mile is pretty close to that limit though.
howrar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
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.
Psythik@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
But speaking of the weather: if you live in a hot desert climate, a 20 minute walk could be deadly. Much safer to ride in the air conditioned bus.
qjkxbmwvz@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Eh, 1 mile is pretty far when carrying a heavy backpack. If it’s free, I’d take the bus.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
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.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
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.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Ever heard of textbooks? They tend to be quite heavy in my experience.
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
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.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Free bus and constant buses arriving? Why not.
bss03@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
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.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
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.
bss03@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
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.
localhost443@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
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.
bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
That’s great that you did lose weight, glad you feel better even if you haven’t met your goal yet
Good job
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
How do you know they are a man?
bss03@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
My profile indirectly discloses that. I don’t think it matters much for the story, but I am a cis white male.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Thanks. Yes I get it. I am projecting too much of my own experience here.
DogWater@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
??? Free college buses around campus in the winter time is dope what’s the problem
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean depends on the weather and how much time you have. I have a shop I go to regularly about 5-10 minutes walking distance away. Some days I just don’t feel like walking and take the bus. If she had to go there more than once per week I can completely understand some days just not feeling like it.
drolex@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Yeah fair enough really. Again I don’t know what’s going in everyone’s life so I shouldn’t judge.
But really everyone’s a weakling these days, except me of course. I’m very tough (I drive a cybertruck)
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Fiction or American.
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
You think people take the bus in America?
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Well they certainly don’t walk
randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 weeks ago
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). It’s because I was always o
papertowels@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Does it feel better if you say it’s a shuttle instead?
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I took the bus for those distances several times when in college.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
1 mile take the bus
This is a complete fiction, right?
Wait. Hear me out.
Chilly snowy winter campuses, especially in the frozen North where it gets chilly and snowy, will often be nigh impassable after they close down the underground tunnels – which they invariably do permanently as soon as there’s any report of crime down there - and then it’s either walking in your moon boots across the couldn’t-afford-to-clear snowy campus pathways in 2ft of snow, or take a bus from one collection point to another and cut down on the trudging.
I dunno how OOP rode his bike, though, unless it wasn’t snowy and kids are used to the shuttle service (me, I’d speed-walk across campus a few times a day. I was in great shape!) .
Just, small bus routes can be crazy-valuable if they avoid risk. That’s all.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Its a greentext, so yeah.
LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
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
___@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I’ve known people who have taken the subway/metro to get between classes on the same campus, so this is still plausible
flx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
maybe she had a tight timetable idk
CluckN@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Colleges love to flex their local bus service. Especially if it’s a big campus in the north.