The light you see would be blue shifted because of the speed you're going and become gamma rays for you. Radio waves would shift to visible light. So you would see radio.
If you would move that fast on the ground, you'd slam into air molecules at light speed, causing a huge shockwave like a continuous Hiroshima nuke going of. That would make you sad.
I hate it I hate it such a shitty implication. This headline implies that walking fast makes you sad, but I'm willing to bet a lot that the study didn't actually find such a causal connection.
My guess is that the causal link is stress here. Stressed people walk faster and are also sad.
So make the headline say "scientists say stressed people walk fast" or something because someone will try walking slowly in hopes of that bringing happiness
I agree with your rant, this kind of title is annoying.
I do however also think that doing slow mindful walks will help against stress, so the implication that slow walking brings happiness is not a bad implication. Stressed out fast walking people really should try it. There's no reason to be in a hurry all of the time.
I didn't even think about taking the title seriously but now that you say it, it does sound ridiculous. I wonder if it's bait for people to come in explain causation (serious) to drum up engagement, or if it's actually just dumb.
It used to be that when my girlfriend and I were walking, she would always be rushing me by walking much faster. After starting my current job, I've become the fast walker, always having to slow down for her.
Uhhh I'm not sure I like the implication of this is
The whole fucking world defaults to the US. But I don't know anyone that thinks of Africans or even Australians when they hear "southern". Granted, having lived in northern Germany among other places, they mean something different when they say the south and I'm sure other nations refer to their southern residents as southerners. But I'm guessing you knew what I meant and just wanted to be a dbag
Nope, why would i think about USA?, i thought it meant the southern hemisphere or smth (which pretty much confused me because i never hear a stereotype like that)
Honestly I’ve been very conscious of this lately as a fast walker and it turns out even when I’m in the best mood it’s just fucking painful to walk slow. I feel the same way driving slow in a car with a turbo — the car wants to move fast.
Correlation does not imply causation, in this case it doesn't mean that sad people walk fast. A few years ago there was a similar study that said that people that walked faster were healthier or something, the reality was that younger people walk faster, they also happen to be healthier than older people.
In this case, it's entirely possible that younger people are fucking depressed due to the state of everything.
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watson387@sopuli.xyz · 118 pts · 42d
Yeah. We're unhappy because your slow ass won't get out of the way! XD
UnCollaredCarrot@piefed.zip · 92 pts · 42d
starchylemming@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 42d
wow, this dude is everywhere!
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 38d
When I notice the person behind me catching up, I move to the side so they can pass
daggermoon@piefed.world · 1 pts · 41d
I do it without realizing it. I'm clumsy, awkward, and I really am unaware of my surroundings.
Alkali@lemmy.ml · 21 pts · 41d
Just... Just don't walk in the center of every walkway.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 41d
Exactly
tutter@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 41d
Practice looking around you when making a stop, an placing yourself to the side of a path instead of in the middle
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d
You're just mad because we're in front.
watson387@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 41d
Nah. It's because you're so proud to be an obstacle.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 72 pts · 42d
(but also: What if you were moving toward a light source? Wouldn't that mean you get to see faster? 🤔)
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub · 21 pts · 42d
The light you see would be blue shifted because of the speed you're going and become gamma rays for you. Radio waves would shift to visible light. So you would see radio.
If you would move that fast on the ground, you'd slam into air molecules at light speed, causing a huge shockwave like a continuous Hiroshima nuke going of. That would make you sad.
Dojan@pawb.social · 1 pts · 41d
If I were forced to see ABBA I'd welcome getting nuked.
lugal@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 42d
Any moth expert wanna comment on that now that it's moth month?
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 13 pts · 42d
ceenote@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 42d
Do these fine gentlemen look unhappy to you?
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 42d
My god! Look at their form.
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 41d
He's cheating! Look! There's a hop, see?! There's another one!
ceenote@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d
You're not a race walker at all, you're nothing but a common jogger.
kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 42d
RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 42d
"People in a hurry are experiencing stress."
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip · 29 pts · 42d
--rant start--
I hate it I hate it such a shitty implication. This headline implies that walking fast makes you sad, but I'm willing to bet a lot that the study didn't actually find such a causal connection.
My guess is that the causal link is stress here. Stressed people walk faster and are also sad.
So make the headline say "scientists say stressed people walk fast" or something because someone will try walking slowly in hopes of that bringing happiness
--rant end--
bryophile@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 42d
I agree with your rant, this kind of title is annoying.
I do however also think that doing slow mindful walks will help against stress, so the implication that slow walking brings happiness is not a bad implication. Stressed out fast walking people really should try it. There's no reason to be in a hurry all of the time.
plyth@feddit.org · 0 pts · 42d
Tell that to the Amazon warehouse workers.
bryophile@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 41d
Amazon benefits from workers who don't get stressed out too
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 42d
But the headline doesn't imply a causal connection, it's your own bias that does
I read it and immediately assumed it's because stressed people walk faster
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 42d
The tagline is still making a massive leap of logic to a clickbaity conclusion.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 42d
No it's not. If I were to find you on a graph, the faster you walk, the unhappier I'd find you to be—that's what it's saying.
Now, the content of the article? I have no idea. I'm not reading it.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 3 pts · 42d
I didn't even think about taking the title seriously but now that you say it, it does sound ridiculous. I wonder if it's bait for people to come in explain causation (serious) to drum up engagement, or if it's actually just dumb.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Headlines to drive clicks, that's all it is.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
Women with round asses like seen here are more likely to walk quicker
NONE_dc@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 42d
Hmmm actually ☝️🤓
Sonic don't walk fast, he runs fast.
Because he's addicted to
cocainetacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 11 pts · 42d
He’s not addicted. He can quit anytime he wants. He just really loves doing it.
fartographer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 42d
Frequently checks if the smell changed
Dojan@pawb.social · 1 pts · 41d
That's reasonable. I've heard it's really good.
WereCat@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 42d
True. Walking fast makes me very unhappy with all the slow walkers
d00ery@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 41d
https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.b4460
Gormadt@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 41d
If I walk fast enough I can outrun death
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 41d
Yeah I'm unhappy about all these slow mother fuckers that are always in my way.
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org · 17 pts · 42d
The problem with being faster than light is that you only see darkness...
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 42d
Dam that's deep
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 42d
Depression must be fast af then…
plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 42d
... unless you follow the light, or run towards it.
Saapas@piefed.zip · 15 pts · 42d
It used to be that when my girlfriend and I were walking, she would always be rushing me by walking much faster. After starting my current job, I've become the fast walker, always having to slow down for her.
Uhhh I'm not sure I like the implication of this is
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 42d
You know...
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 41d
Idk I walk pretty fast and I’m pretty happy, aside from my crippling depression.
taiyang@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 42d
Depending on how slow the people in front of me are, I'm also more homicidal! At least Sonic has a lethal spin dash for such occasions.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 9 pts · 41d
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/older-adults-who-walk-faster-may-cut-risk-cognitive-decline-by-half
Saw this in the news a few days ago.
workerONE@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 41d
Maybe cognitive decline makes you more happy
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 0 pts · 41d
Seems to be working for you.
[if you're going to hand me an opening like that, don't get mad because I used it]
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 9 pts · 42d
So, you're telling me that if I just walk slower, I'll be happier?
marcos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 42d
Have you tried just walking slower?
Dotdashdot@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 42d
Got yelled at by the twat behind me, wouldn’t recommend.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 41d
Some of y'all have never watched a 200kg / 440lb southern woman walk. She is not happy. And I'm not happy to be walking behind her.
Sabata11792@ani.social · 3 pts · 40d
Just travel with climbing gear.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
(insert your mom joke here)
Or really anything Bundy said in Married with Children while at work.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 41d
Never been to Africa so I wouldn't know. Or do you mean South America or Australia?
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 4 pts · 41d
Southern US. Race doesn't matter. White, black, brown or whatever. The walk is the same. Not many 200kg women in Africa.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 0 pts · 40d
c/americandefaultism
(btw, do we have one? I should check after i write the comment ig)
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · -1 pts · 39d
The whole fucking world defaults to the US. But I don't know anyone that thinks of Africans or even Australians when they hear "southern". Granted, having lived in northern Germany among other places, they mean something different when they say the south and I'm sure other nations refer to their southern residents as southerners. But I'm guessing you knew what I meant and just wanted to be a dbag
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 1 pts · 39d
I am sorry to tell you, but no
Nope, why would i think about USA?, i thought it meant the southern hemisphere or smth (which pretty much confused me because i never hear a stereotype like that)
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 42d
Now I know why I walk fast
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 8 pts · 42d
Honestly I’ve been very conscious of this lately as a fast walker and it turns out even when I’m in the best mood it’s just fucking painful to walk slow. I feel the same way driving slow in a car with a turbo — the car wants to move fast.
bryophile@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 42d
Are you able to meditate for more than a minute?
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 3 pts · 42d
Yes?
bryophile@lemmy.zip · -2 pts · 42d
Maybe try that walking?
undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch · 2 pts · 41d
Maybe while hiking but I’m not going to be meditating walking around my city filled with people.
LoonyLenny@lemdro.id · 7 pts · 42d
Gotta go pee!
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 42d
But in sonic world, happy people run fast, sad people skate.
embed_me@programming.dev · 1 pts · 41d
Knowing me I'd just be aware I have dementia and remember nothing else, feeling like shit
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 42d
thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 42d
Lemmy only accepts bespoke, artisanal, hand-crafted shitposts.
4grams@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 41d
Tracks, I walk so fast it makes people upset with me. I just hate wasting time, why not get where you are going quickly. I’m also deeply unhappy.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 41d
said… people content to be slow? Or… might these be… most kindly… and not shaming anyone… lazy assed bitches?
Lanske@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 41d
This must be. I always walk fast or even run and im sad as fuck
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 42d
This can’t be true although I only have anecdotal evidence to back up my claim.
It’s me. I’m unhappy and a very slow walker.
avg@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 42d
Correlation does not imply causation, in this case it doesn't mean that sad people walk fast. A few years ago there was a similar study that said that people that walked faster were healthier or something, the reality was that younger people walk faster, they also happen to be healthier than older people.
In this case, it's entirely possible that younger people are fucking depressed due to the state of everything.
plyth@feddit.org · 1 pts · 42d
Have you measured? Maybe you walk fast, or you are happy ...
/s
JATtho@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Only until you are running so fast the runner's high kicks in and you are in heaven.
Mountainaire@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
I've almost never felt that, sadly.
I guess I could remove the comma from there.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 41d
So much anger from the fast walkers. Hmm.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 38d
I've noticed anger makes me go faster when I'm walking or on the exercise bike