alt Hacker News> Still, most people cannot tell reality from fiction. If you just tell them it’s real, they’ll most likely believe it.
This goes for conversation too! My neighbour recently told me about a mutual neighbour who walks 200 miles per day working on his farm. When I explained that this is impossible he said "I'll have to disagree with you there"
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Cthulhu_ • 12/10/2024
That's a cultural issue that seems to have developed in the past years (decades? idk), where people take their own opinion (or what they think is their own opinion) as unchallengeable gospel.
In my opinion anyway, I'm gonna have to disagree with any counterpoints in advance.
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Maybe not strictly impossible, just slightly better than an ultramarathon world record pace?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Ultramarathon/comments/xhbs4d/sorok...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Sorokin
So, not very convenient for a non-world-champion runner to do (let alone while doing farm work) (let alone on more than one occasion).