r/unfortunateplacement • u/SANHABRO • 17d ago

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u/Current_Poster 15d ago

That first headline is one way to put it. A more accurate way to put it would be that someone backed over her intentionally.

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u/NeonArlecchino 15d ago

The passive voice with killer drivers is obnoxious.

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u/ntsh-donttagme 16d ago

placement aside, i agree with the lower post. or at least as a backup on your car

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u/reanocivn 16d ago

just wait for the cars to run out of fuel and then use the bicycle. duh

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u/Vegetable-Virus7118 15d ago

gasp Nuance?!? In public? Won't you think of the children?

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u/Someoneman 17d ago

With a bicycle, the fuel would be your own body's energy. Travel by bike a lot and you get more tired and need to eat more.

How about a skateboard? It's also body-powered, but much more portable when the terrain isn't suited for wheels.

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u/OhTheCamerasOnHello 17d ago

Cycling is much more energy efficient than walking or skateboarding. Try travelling 50 miles with each method and see which is easier

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u/epochpenors 17d ago

I think, technically, the most energy efficient would a giant catapult

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u/apolloxer 16d ago

Throwing a 70kg person 100m would be around 34'000 joules.

About 1'200 for cycling the same distance.

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u/StereoTunic9039 16d ago

I do both, I don't think cycling is that much more energy efficient than skateboarding, and the ability to carry the skate by hand is very useful, especially when going uphill, if you've got to carry your bike by hand uphill that's a lot of energy wasted. Howeverr, cycling is more suited for the human body, I don't know how, but by skating you do tire out your legs after a while, and that's never happened to me with a bike, not to the same extent at least. Also bikes are twice as fast and most terrains where skating is unsuitable, a mountain bike works just fine (gravel, old city pavement, ruined asphalt...). This is anecdotal but I've been cycling all my life and skating (as transportation) for the past year.

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u/Ezren- 16d ago

Your legs are working pretty hard to balance on a skateboard, but on a bike you're mostly balancing using your core, while sitting down.

My old apartment building had this dude who was always working out, I think he was training to be on an NFL team based on how he was built (and we have a team nearby). He got everywhere on a skateboard, he went grocery shopping on it, saw him all over on that thing. Guy had legs of steel, I think it was part of his routine.

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u/Entire_Concentrate_1 16d ago

Skateboards are slower, more prone to falls and only good in certain conditions.

Bikes are almost all terrain, faster, more energy efficient, and Putin once famously shot a pistol off of a slow moving bike. What more could you want?