1 gal of gas: ~29k calories - $4.609
~29k calories of rice: ~$600
It’s simple: drink the gas.
Anon rides a bike
Submitted 9 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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Mac@mander.xyz 9 months ago
qwen@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
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@mander.xyz 9 months ago
some random website lol
rockerface@lemm.ee 9 months ago
If you drink a whole canister of gas, that’s enough to cover your nutritional needs for the rest of your life!
Speculater@lemmy.world 9 months ago
BRB
oxideseven@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Also, gas is less toxic than vitamin C. So you should be fine! :D
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
Yeah but I don’t have to carry an actual ton of weight on my bike.
Mac@mander.xyz 9 months ago
stfu nerd
My mom has lost a ton of weight and im v proud of her 😡ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Your mom is so fat when she sits around the house she’s morbidly obese.
suction@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Aww snap!!
JayDee@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
If yo 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@mander.xyz 9 months ago
You can’t convince me of free energy
NICE TRY SCIENTOLOGY
blandfordforever@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Taking this further, that $4.60 of gas will power the most efficient car for about an hour.
That $12 of rice is enough energy for you to power your bike for like 50 hours.
Conclusion: Just drive your car. Do you really want to waste 49 hours on your bike? /s
Mac@mander.xyz 9 months ago
But that’s because that fuel is used to do much, much more work. if you scale down the unit to, say, a scooter (50cc) it will last much longer. Most scoots have 1gal tanks and they can get over 100mi per tank.
That being said everyone will think you lost your license due to drunk driving so to prevent this you should replace alcohol in your life and simply drink gas.
Real ones will switch to drinking biofuels because they’re better for the environment.
Ethanol is a good option.
Pro-tip: make sure it’s not denatured and is purified—it’s less dangerous for consumption that way.Wait a second…
anivia@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
One thing to account for is that humans are very inefficient at converting food into energy output. Only about 25% efficient to be precise. So you need to eat about 4 times more calories than you end up outputting into the bicycle.
The same thing applies to ICE cars, their engines are also very inefficient. EVs however reach an efficiency of 80-90%, they only end up using more energy than a bicycle because of how much faster you usually drive them. But if you drove an EV at the same speed you would ride a bicycle they would be vastly more efficient. And that’s not even accounting for the amount of energy used to produce food in the first place, which is a lot higher than the energy content of said food
booly@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
EVs however reach an efficiency of 80-90%,
That’s not accounting for the inefficiency of turning heat into electricity in the first place (turbine generation is about 90% at utility scale) or turning photons into usable electricity (photovoltaics are at about 20%). And with turbines, you have to account for the inefficiencies in processing the fuel to get it to that point.
The whole universe is just an entropy generator and we’re gonna lose a lot of useful energy as we try to manipulate it.
Mac@mander.xyz 8 months ago
“low drag of a bicycle” citation needed
_bcron@midwest.social 9 months ago
Gross metabolic efficiency is gonna be around ~25% so you’re best off measuring kilojoules of work as an approximation of calorie burn, and then compare that to how many gallons of gas would be consumed when in a car, but you’d still probably wanna drink the gas
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Actual unironic gigachad moment
Xanis@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Be American Living paycheck to paycheck Need job Good worker Work overtime when needed Trying to pay off car Smug biker does a driveby near open car window Rethink my life Realize U.S. infrastructure often requires vehicles In middle of daily 40min commute, one way Realize the same distance on bike would be two hours Depresso
WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
This is why we need good public transit on top of good biking infrastructure. The two working together let’s you get anywhere a car can go while not taking a lot longer.
Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I miss Japan’s public transport. Never felt like I needed a car while in the city.
Etterra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You’re not wrong, but that’s not going to work over the entire country. There’s just too much space to cover; the country would go bankrupt trying to provide mass transit everywhere that it’s needed. So while this could be, if you could convince people to actually do it, a solution in urban areas, it’s never going to work out in the thousands of miles of country and they have the exact same problems. They just have less traffic and more empty space to cross.
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Get a closer job or move closer to your job if it’s a good reliable job. I did and it’s fucking wonderful! Took a long time, a lot of work, and some luck but I can’t recommend it enough.
drislands@lemmy.world 8 months ago
just get a job closer to your home
just moveIdk man, not sure either of those are the easy solutions you’re implying them to be.
suction@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Everyone employed is living paycheck to paycheck; you just spend it all
DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Some lucky few still get to build up an emergency fund, possibly retire, or even become independently wealthy, but yeah, most of us are working class stiffs.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
> 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
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Road capacity in traffic: basically zero Single bike lane capacity: absolutely massive.
ladicius@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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@yiffit.net 9 months ago
Hm… Is there any law that says I can’t ride my bike in the store? Sure would make shopping faster.
HappyRedditRefugee@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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.
SufniDroid@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
idk about bikes, but I saw some madlads rolling slowly on their electric scooters in shops
ladicius@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t think laws prevent forbid that.
Ask the shop owner what he thinks of your idea.
_bcron@midwest.social 9 months ago
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)
Wilzax@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Bro pokemon WENT
Noodle07@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You might want to check out walkscape to run even more
TwigletSparkle@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
I couldn’t get into Walkscape, but it’s definitely better for running as you don’t need it open until you’re done.
suction@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m trying to figure out, how do we get them to POKÉMON GO TO THE POLLS
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Ngl, I have a nice ass and legs. Nice compliments, too! It’s worth it to bike everywhere if your city allows it.
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
pics or it didn’t happen
Lemminary@lemmy.world 9 months ago
doingthestuff@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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@lemm.ee 9 months ago
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
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Well, at least my commute would be certain death,
RIDE TO VALHALLA! WITNESS! WITNESSSS!!
SuDmit@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 months ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 9 months ago
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@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
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
Schmuppes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 months ago
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.suction@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I mean there has been some work done to those roads in the meantime and it’s not remarkable you chose to build them on the quickest way to go from A to B while keeping construction cost in mind…
EpicFailGuy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Me unironically wanting to do this 100F outside most of the year (that’s 38C for you europoors) Have to wake up at 4am before sunset to be able to ride at all work at 9 Can’t into roadbike :(
swan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It would take me 3 hours to get to work on a bike, and 3 hours home. I’d love to be able to do it, but Vancouver is expensive and I don’t want to waste my free time biking in 30° weather
chrizzowski@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Where do you live, Chilliwack? Lol. I get it though heat sucks. I’m in Kelowna and bike whenever I can, but I’m not showing up to dinner or a meeting drenched. Errands or casual hangs though sure why not. It is a little less soupy humid here so even 40° isn’t awful as long as you’re moving and have a breeze.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 9 months ago
4am before sunset
4am is technically “before sunset”, but I assume you meant “before sunrise”.
I used to live in central Florida (so not even the benefit of the ocean climate) and I rode my bike everywhere and I lived in a house with no AC. I was young and high all the time, which I guess made being soaked in sweat and stinky all the time bearable. Somehow I still got play from women - apparently I was cute back then and I was hyper-fit, at least. Absolutely no fucking way I could stand that shit now.
Mojave@lemmy.world 9 months ago
My job is 18 mountainy miles away, and when I show up drenched in sweat everyone in the office says I smell bad
MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 9 months ago
People shouldn’t live that far away from their workplaces. They didn’t used to, before we invented shitboxes.
Mojave@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
You could get a decent e-bike?
jabathekek@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
“But they’re so expensive, I’m not paying that much for a bike! I’d rather pay 10 times as much for cheap car that’ll sell all my text messages to data scraping companies.”
SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
You can get an E-Bike or other personal electric vehicle if you want. Eco-friendly, inexpensive, fun, and won’t leave you drenched in sweat.
suction@lemmy.world 9 months ago
That’s the downside bike enthusiasts like to gloss over about - and in summer it doesn’t even have to be mountainous.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I always wanted to learn how to ride a bike. Always looked like fun.
horse@feddit.org 9 months ago
Do it. I took up cycling last year (although I learned as a kid) and now it’s literally my favourite thing to do ever. I’m also the fittest I’ve ever been.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I wouldn’t even know how to start. And, even though I know it’s silly, I’d be super nervous to try in front of people. I’m fat. They’d laugh at me 🤣
chrizzowski@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
Absolutely go do it! Riding a bike is one of the simplest joys in life once you get the hang of it. I live ripping around doing all my errands on it. I have a reasonably nice vehicle but really I only drive in the worst of the winter, or to get out of town to do some activity. In the summer that activity is usually mountain biking, go figure!
AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 8 months ago
So do it?
Etterra@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Have fun commuting 30 miles to work on that thing. Especially when there’s 8 or 10 inches of snow, -10 wind-chill, or there’s a thunderstorm rolling in. I’ve seen people do it; they look absolutely fucking miserable and it’s a miracle it doesn’t kill them.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Yeah, but do you dress like a chode and hang out at vitamin shops?
Damage@feddit.it 9 months ago
Too bad for the lung cancer
JimSamtanko@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Couldn’t finish reading that disaster of a paragraph. What a fucking loser.
P4ulin_Kbana@lemmy.eco.br 9 months ago
Wish it was just that easy to use bikes as transport. Everything feels like 1km far away.
grandma@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
So how easy is it for an American to move to the Netherlands? Asking for myself
RecursiveParadox@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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.
abbadon420@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I guess it’s easy enough, but good luck finding a house.
suction@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No hills or mountains is great for biking, but bad for beautiful nature experiences (BNE)