• bruhduh
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      318 months ago

      c/theydidthemath

      • @[email protected]
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        I don’t think they did it right. A) because he said he ran 32 miles on that loop or 451 and a bit loops and B) I think even if he ran all 3200 miles that year, OP is off by a factor of 10

        • @frobeniusnorm
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          Dear fellow anarchist,

          32 / 0.07 = 457.142857

          source: my calculator app

          EDIT: dammit, i am from germany and , is here the decimal point . i copied it from the app, gonna correct it

    • @postmateDumbass
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      58 months ago

      I really want to believe he was cosplaying as Superman trying to turn back time.

  • @[email protected]
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    If a mouse did this in study, we would euthanize it from mercy. I don’t even know if the first meth mice were this obsessive compulsive.

    • @Chocrates
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      That’s not true. They have put mouse exercise wheels in the wild and mice use them for fun. Mice love to run.

      There was actually an interesting “exercise drug” line of research seeing if they could make a pharmaceutical that would make exercise fun. Wonder if that went anywhere.

      • @Arrkk
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        48 months ago

        Yeah that’s just MDMA.

        • @Cryophilia
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          38 months ago

          Which they of course then banned because fun is not allowed

      • @feedum_sneedson
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        18 months ago

        I think you are thinking of PPAR-δ agonists, it’s not about making exercise fun though. More like exercise in a pill. It worked, but gave the rats tumours I believe. People use it anyway, which seems a bit risky.

        • @Chocrates
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          Yeah I know about that one! But in that same article (assuming we are thinking about the same one) they interviewed another scientist working on the other kind of drug.

          Last I checked a less tumour inducing version of the drug was going into phase 1 clinical trials for muscular dystrophyin the last year or so

          • @feedum_sneedson
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            18 months ago

            Good, it’s an exciting area of research. Don’t know about any article, I just happen to have an encyclopaedic knowledge of PEDs. I’d definitely be interested to hear about the other thing.

            • @Chocrates
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              18 months ago

              I would personally love an exercise pill. I have pretty severe depression so getting into an exercise routine is a huge struggle. If I could take some medication that helped I would be so happy.

    • @CptEnder
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      28 months ago

      I live in Brooklyn, if a dude circled my block like this someone would def call the cops on him

      • Adam Kempenich ✅
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        38 months ago

        I was honestly surprised to see that it was in ND. Now I’m wondering if the screenshot is of the person I’m thinking of…

    • @CptEnder
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      08 months ago

      Damn all that ugly ass driveway space and that one trailertrash asshole ruining his lawn by parking his cars on it… Wonder if it’s the same insane loop guy

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        that one trailertrash asshole ruining his lawn by parking his cars on it…

        That’s an empty lot with construction equipment in it

        • @CptEnder
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          38 months ago

          That… is a very reasonable explanation lol

  • @Rolando
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    478 months ago

    OP is a subatomic particle in a physics lab.

    • @Wogi
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      128 months ago

      I am Jack’s light speed hydrogen atom

    • @niktemadur
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      28 months ago

      OP is the probability cloud around the nucleus. Don’t poke him or you’ll collapse his wave function.

  • @psycho_driver
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    308 months ago

    This guy and the guy who has been running through my neighborhood at night with glow sticks taped to his body would be great friends I feel.

  • @[email protected]
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    I hope for this person that they switch direction every now and then. Constantly turning in the same direction doesn’t sound optimal

    • Flying SquidM
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      98 months ago

      Pete and Pete was, in my opinion, the absolute pinnacle of what could be done in a show for kids.

      Meanwhile, Toby Huss in the picture up there went on to be in Halt and Catch Fire and was the voices of Kahn and Cotton on King of the Hill. Talented dude apart from being the strongest man in the world.

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    Reminds me of this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-Transcendence_3100_Mile_Race

    This race, which lasts several weeks, is hosted by the Sri Chinmoy Marathon Team and takes place every summer in Queens, New York City. The course is 3,100 miles (4,989 km) long. Runners negotiate 5,649 laps of one extended city block in Jamaica, Queens, bounded by 164th Place, Abigail Adams (84th) Avenue, 168th Street, and the Grand Central Parkway — a distance of 0.5488 miles (883 m) — while the streets are in normal use.[2] The runners have 52 days to complete the distance, running from 6 a.m. to midnight, an average of 59.62 miles (95.95 km) every day. The prize is typically a T-shirt, a DVD, or a small trophy.[3]

    • @Linkerbaan
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      38 months ago

      Helps shape his feet for the next laps he’ll be running

    • pewter
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      18 months ago

      No slant isn’t great either. If the sidewalk isn’t banked that run seems like torture.

  • Wren
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    148 months ago

    I’m choosing to imagine he’s running a very very very slightly larger circle each time, getting closer and closer to his neighbours as he goes - instead of it being the precision of the sat nav (and the larger circles only being noticed over a matter of weeks)