Thoughtlessly?
My friend gets in her car to go a quarter of a mile to a gymnasium to walk on a treadmill, then complains about not finding a parking space. When I asked her why she didn't walk to the gym, she looked at me as if I were being willfully provocative. 'Because I have a program for the treadmill,' she explained. 'It records my distance and speed, and I can adjust it for degree of difficulty.' It hadn't occurred to me how thoughtlessly deficient nature is in this regard.
Could you help me figure out what this sentence is trying to say?
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As far as I can tell, "nature" in this context is meant to refer to the natural activity of walking (or physical activity and exercise generally), without the assistance of a treadmill or other artificial technology. In this sense, "nature" is "deficient" (meant ironically), as it does not provide for automatically recording distance and speed, and cannot be adjusted for difficulty.
- As far as I can tell, "nature" in this context is meant to refer to the natural activity of walking (or physical activity and exercise generally), without the assistance of a treadmill or other artificial technology.
- In this sense, "nature" is "deficient" (meant ironically), as it does not provide for automatically recording distance and speed, and cannot be adjusted for difficulty.
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As far as I can tell, "nature" in this context is meant to refer to the natural activity of walking (or physical activity and exercise generally), without the assistance of a treadmill or other artificial technology. In this sense, "nature" is "deficient" (meant ironically), as it does not provide for automatically recording distance and speed, and cannot be adjusted for difficulty.
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