It’s fun. Try it. (The barefoot walking - not the feces throwing…)
At least the designated barefoot paths are risk-free, but maybe also try taking a few barefoot steps through a lush pine forest or so.
Even just strolling without shoes across a stretch of grass is a really nice experience!
There are special barefoot paths were l live that have segments prepared to experience many often strange underground types.
From cork over all kind of stones, sand, mud, pinecones to really mind-screwing stuff like broken glass (specially prepared to not cut).
But they are usually less than a km in length.
Walking multi day trails is a whole other story…
l like the idea, but I suspect it often might have the opposite effect as intended.
Imagine e.g. taking a quick glance at the watch to determine if you will still catch the bus - this would most likely result in you sprinting to the bus stop just to be on the safe side…
Are you talking about a watch with 24 different numbers on it?
Yes, arranged in a circle, 24 at the top, 12 at the bottom, lower part is day, upper part is night.
App also had a daylight indication shading depending on local sunrise/sunset.
Loved it!
24hr analog watches are the real shit, though!
Had a good emulated one on my phone homescreen for a long time, but unfortunately app is not supported by newer versions of Android any more… :-(
Yes, it very much is the perversion of earlier coordinated communities that probably defined (and still earned) the name.
Here in Germany still exist “Mitfahrzentralen” which roughly translates to ride-share-centres, which allow people to offer ride-along places for specific private rides (e.g. driving from Munich to Berlin on Friday afternoon), for a share of the costs for the ride.
Thanks, already learned from another commenter that ridesharing is apparently the term for the business model like Uber.
Confusing term.
I think the thing l was thinking of is actually named ''car pooling".
OK, ridesharing doesn’t mean sharing rides but calling privately owned quasi-taxis.
Then it makes sense!
Thanks for the explanation!
So rideshare means not sharing rides, but using your car to do stuff for your employer?
But wouldn’t he at least reimburse you for the costs?
Why are they cutting back on rideshares?
I would have expected the opposite, more riding together and reducing single person only rides.
The patios aren’t built to the standard of a road of course
l guess that’s the relevant difference. Brick needs good groundwork and proper drainage.
That’s the case for the official brick town roads here, some of which are hundreds of years old. (although these really old ones are not nice to ride with a bike on, rough stones with huge gaps)
Exactly.
But so far mainly seen this for asphalt once it is a few years old.
It also is much harder to rectify again for asphalt without tearing it all up and rebuilding it from scratch, leading to the emergency pothole covering cycle of death, ending in the typical uneven patchwork asphalt surfaces l see everywhere.
But isn’t asphalt even more susceptible to frost related damage?
I come from an area with both types of road surfaces and the condition of the asphalt is generally much worse after winter.
So what are the ways asphalt sucks in your opinion?
(providing the road is well maintained…)
I have a hard time coming up with road surface types that don’t suck more in most aspects.
Unless “lottery” is a euphemism for some other means of acquiring a large sum of money that doesn’t provide a receipt…
Depends.
This here being the shitpost community, my skill certainly greatly exceeds yours in this case…
Perhaps switch to a keyboard for the time being?
I severely broke 3 fingers in my left hand half a year ago and was able to play Elder Scrolls games and Tux Kart surprisingly soon after the accident.
Sufficient to be able to just move the flat hand left and right a bit and get the fingertips a few mm down to press a key.
Being able to use a controller again took more than 2 months and wasn’t even fun then (did it mostly for the therapeutic training effect).
My lactose intolerant guts are already about to explode just by looking at it…
Instant surprise switch to nonexistence after my kids are grown up and have their own lifes would be totally fine.
Preferrably in synchronization with the life partner.
It’s not the being dead that’s the problem, it’s all the nasty stuff connected to the transition process.
Seems like it is for some unknown reason.
I was also really surprised by the instant negativity and the amount of downvotes this totally (at least) mildly interesting post received.
Perhaps a cultural thing coming to light because of the time it was posted?
I often perceive a stark change of general views and shift of popular and unpopular discussion topics once America (meaning mainly the US) mostly takes over Lemmy during my subjective nighttime.
This effect let me surprised and slightly flabbergasted many times in the past already.