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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
and half those 25% are just college students and new yorkers
Whew! Good thing I'm not American!
public transit gang stays winning
Just saying, you know public transportation is a good idea when porky only wants places with public transportation all to rich people exclusively.
Isn't a typical grocery store trip more than 10 minutes of walking? This seems pretty hard to believe.
Most Americans drive to the grocery store
Yeah, I meant walking around inside the store itself.
its not continuous. you stop and browse and so on
So like, me stopping to look at mushrooms on tbeground fucks up my continuous walking
As others have pointed out
less than one quarter of U.S. adults in a nationally representative sample reported walking or bicycling for transportation for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week.
This data is probably excluding things like walking around work or grocery shopping and looking at just walking/bicycling to get from point A to point B in lieu of cars or trains. They explicitly use the term "active transportation" here.
Walking where I live has an LD50 of like 40 minutes.
Grocery pickup is free in most places and delivery is insanely popular.
The survey seems like it's only concerned with walking when it's a means of transportation
what kinda god fearing american would go to the grocerie every week
I buy mostly fresh ingredients, so going weekly works best.
Yo, live in NY. Buy fresh every week. Not enough room to store enough at home so the store itself is your pantry/fridge.
live in wiscosin. own 2 chest freezers in addition to a full size standing fridge. venture to the grocery store once every 3 weeks. buy two shopping carts full every time
How do you deal with seasonal fruits and veggies? Freeze everything that doesn't last? I would hate the logistics of that, cause I often get ideas for meals while looking at whats cheap and good at the moment.
no true red blooded american eats "seasonal fruits and vegetables" is that some kinda DEI? 
but actually in practice yeah its mass freezing bulk items they got on discount, imagine the meal planning starting with "what's in the freezer" over "what's cheap at the grocer"
okay I know the bit, Americans are lazy, but this genuinely breaks my brain a little. less than ten minutes continuously each week? What the fuck??
Probably walk around with the explicit intent to just walk around for, like, cumulatively an hour or more a day. How the fuck are you people not understimulated at the time you go to bed. Is this some neurotypical magic I'm not privy to?
Sure, there’s walking in stores. But essentially: walkability is a luxury for the rich here.
I can write a whole essay on this. Americans themselves aren’t necessarily bad people, quite the contrary. Americans love touching grass and walkable cities and all that cool shit, but it’s so expensive because there’s such overwhelming demand and the ruling class isn’t interested in expanding things. Many Americans are awesome people, but damn are American 
s the porkiest porks to ever pork.
People are influenced by their material circumstances. People don't walk, cause US society isn't built for that.
You should notice your confusion, read the article, and realise the headline is deeply misleading.
They are only counting walking for transportation. Not e.g. shopping, recreation, during work etc.
In general a good reflex when hearing something outrageous is to believe your own doubt as to the truth, and investigate. Media flourishes selling outrageous half truths and nonsense. 7bicycles was also deeply irresponsible copying this headline without context.
Honestly, I’m not here to dunk on Americans. This is unquestionably an act of violence porky has done to the American working class.
True. I felt this necessary posting on account of this site also can get shamefully carbrained at times and I do believe a lot of it is US-Americans unaware of how fucked their situation is, because to them, it is just normalcy
nowhere to go
Yep. No sidewalks, a 45mph road I would have to walk next to, nothing to walk to, and zero public transport. I have to use a car to do anything. Shit sucks.
This is a bad headline. Here's a couple important bits from the article:
the majority of previous studies done on physical activity primarily focused on its use in recreational activity or leisure time activity, he noted.
less than one quarter of U.S. adults in a nationally representative sample reported walking or bicycling for transportation for more than 10 minutes continuously in a typical week.
So this study is intentionally focused on walking and biking "for transportation", and excludes people who do either activity for recreation or exercise or any other reason. I myself would have probably reported that I do zero walking or biking for transportation to this survey - but I get between 90 and 120 minutes of total walking almost every day walking my (very energetic) dog.
Also no mention of bikes in the title seems odd. I certainly don't walk for transportation because things are too far, so I assumed I was part of the 75% it was talking about, even though I go through periods of using active transport as my primary method of commuting. Wish clickbait was not so prevalent.
But I think shows where the problem is - to walk in US you need to have make conscious effort and usually drive yourself first to some park. Meanwhile dumbass American smart watch thinks that I am training every time I walk from work to my favorite eatery for lunch.
I just took the title from the webpage. The situation is not as dire as that suggests, albeit, not once walking 500m a week for transportation needs once a week is still pretty fucking dire.
I do think it's bad, but it outlines a problem with walking infrastructure. In many places, you really can't get anywhere by walking. For example, a friend and I had to take a quick trip up the road and on the way realized that we should add a stop to our trip to get two things done at once. Place A and Place B are very close to one another, but we could not walk from one to another because there was no walking path, and there were bushes and ditches blocking the only way. We weren't going to go around those and into 50-60 mph traffic on foot. So we drove. Left the one parking lot by car and went into the second parking lot. The entire trip we may be got 50 total steps.
