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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 05:52:43 JST Paul Cantrell

   Came out of the wilderness to the news that my gov is the VP pick, and…yeah, I’m cool with it. I think he’s probably the person for the job in this moment. In particular, the White People Calming Field I described in this post really does seem like an important thing:
   https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112860539899504530

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 06:14:54 JST Paul Cantrell

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     In another news, I managed to carry a 3-person canoe through a 200 rod portage, and I’m very proud of myself. (This is not actually impressive, but it was a lot for this inexperienced paddler!)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 06:16:28 JST Paul Cantrell

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     Relatedly, I hearby declare 10 portages in 2 days to be officially Too Much.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 07:25:34 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Righteous Hazard

     @bertwells
     I appreciate that! To be clear: this was an unloaded canoe: 3 in the party, gear carried separately. Just balancing the dang thing empty is challenge enough for me!

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     Righteous Hazard (bertwells@mathstodon.xyz)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 07:25:35 JST Righteous Hazard

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     @inthehands As a very experienced paddler who specifically sought to increase is whitewater skills so as to avoid portages as much as possible (and that still doesn't get me out of carries between bodies of water), I hereby declare, by the power vested in me as a person who has carried every kind of small watercraft around every kind of obstacle: A 200 rod (which, is over a half mile if I am not mistaken) portage of a loaded wilderness canoe, is something to be proud* of!

     *to the extent that any of us can be proud of the nutty things we do for fun

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 07:27:15 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Righteous Hazard

     @bertwells (And yes, you’re correct: 200 rods is 0.6 miles. I of course had to check once I had internet again!)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 12:13:38 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ellen Shapiro

     This from Monica Hesse (ht @designatednerd) all rings true, and adds more dimension to my notes in the original thread. It’s charming, it’s perceptive, and it may help you make sense of what I said about the GOP attempts to attack Walz as MN governor being “like shooting bullets into oatmeal:”

     https://mastodon.social/@designatednerd/112929846864810715

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 13:20:33 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • mschomm

     @mschomm
     It is! It’s exactly 198 inches, or 1/320 of a mile. Or 2.8 Rod Stewarts, apparently. And for some godforsaken reason, it’s the standard measurement for canoe portages.

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     mschomm (mschomm@bonn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 13:20:35 JST mschomm

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     @inthehands
     Is a 'rod' one of these ancient units of measurement, maybe based on the size of one Rod Stewart?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 23:43:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Brian Marick

     @marick
     Same! And then came the second shock that no, you don’t carry the whole thing with the gear between two people like a giant basket, but instead flip it and balance it on your shoulders. Wild!

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     Brian Marick (marick@mstdn.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Aug-2024 23:43:32 JST Brian Marick

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     @inthehands *I’m* impressed. (The reality of portaging[?] a canoe came as rather a shock to me, first time.)

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     Yeshaya Lazarevich (alter_kaker@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 02:38:23 JST Yeshaya Lazarevich

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     • Ellen Shapiro

     @inthehands
     Very cute. I definitely have very serious political disagreements with this guy, and I think that he has done harm and is capable of doing more. Nevertheless, I can see how he might at the same time be a very rare thing in politics, a genuinely decent person.
     @designatednerd

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Aug-2024 02:54:31 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Yeshaya Lazarevich

     @alter_kaker @designatednerd
     As somebody who’s had him as gov for half a decade, I •definitely• have some serious political disagreements with him. But…having him in power let some truly excellent things happen, things a GOP governor would have killed. And somebody I agree with more (Walz was not my choice in the 2018 primary) probably would not have won statewide office, so…there it is. I suspect Walz would serve a similar role at a national scale.