Are there beans in Sagres?
Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Checkmate, Americans
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
That’s two continents depending on the geologist you talk to 😂
ADTJ@feddit.uk 11 months ago
There isn’t really an agreed definition of a continent.
Arguably Afro-Eurasia is all one interconnected continent
popcap200@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Is this something people actually do? I know here in the states we have the cannonball run. I doubt people actually drive the whole route very often.
bleistift2@feddit.de 11 months ago
It’s conceivable as an adventure trip or if a Portuguese wanted to see Northern lights. But I guess the trip NY–LA is way more common.
The States’ population centers are on the far edges of the continent. That’s not the case in Europe, where they’re more evenly distributed.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
we also actually have usable train services
popcap200@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Yeah, that makes sense to me!
mkwt@lemmy.world 11 months ago
There’s a blog/website about the logistics.
People have certainly done it. You can ship a vehicle around the Darien gap. Or potentially sell one car and buy another one (probably pay some customs duties).
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is shitposting
popcap200@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Oh I was genuinely curious if people drive across Europe like this often.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No they don’t. It’s super far. If one did it would be to move but without paying for a moving service or for some very long road trip like an entire summer
Siegfried@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot…
NostraDavid@programming.dev 11 months ago
lol you beat me to it: i.imgur.com/0h892RM.png
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If we’re staying on land within the Schengen Area, from the sea in southwest Portugal, all the way to just before the Estonian-Russian border at Narva is 2 days. And it’s Schengen the whole way there, so no border checks anywhere on the way.
Vent@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh, the entire continent is fair game?
5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Don’t make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂
Vent@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.
psud@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I think you’d start in Capetown
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 months ago
That spans multiple continents. The pan american highway, if it weren’t for a small gap in panama, would be over 30,000 km.
Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 11 months ago
It would have been a continent and a whatever Central America was when I was in school but the younguns nowadays tell me that Central America is included in North America now. And most of South America seems to think that North and South America are all one continent. If we went with that we could make a really long transcontinental path.
odium@programming.dev 11 months ago
Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Eurasia is one continent
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
186 hours to Magadan. 22 hours more than to Vladivostok.
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uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not from County Cork, but from Zapolarny to Magadan: Image
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Route to Magadan is usually longer
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 11 months ago
OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.
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Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
xkcd.com/2906/
gregorum@lemm.ee 11 months ago
RIP Carl
Vent@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Someone show this pale blue dot to Isreal, Palestine, Russia, and Ukraine, stat! /s
All I’m saying is, if we’re comparing data we gotta at least keep the confounding variables consistent. Not that it matters, it’s literally a bean meme lol.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not sure why you included Ukraine or Palestine as if they chose what happened to them.
uis@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Geology says Eurasia is continent
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
except that’s not the continent, that’s all within the EU, which is equivalent to the USA.
The uncomfortable truth is that the US isn’t special, and you can’t use the size of it to justify things being shit.
Vent@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The EU is not at all equivalent to the USA. The US federal government has a looot more power than the EU and the states a lot less autonomy than EU countries. Also, culture is more homogeneous across the US than across the EU.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Also, the US is 9.14 million sq. km of land, whereas the EU is 4.29 million sq. km of land
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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EU is still smaller
But the main reason the US can’t handle the same stuff at a federal level that the EU can is population density. The US government can’t afford to nationalize rural healthcare given how rural the US can be–especially with their debt/GDP at the moment. Give it another few hundred years and the US might catch up to Europe in that respect.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 11 months ago
I just learned the Faroe Islands is connecting all their islands (Exploring New Road Tunnels and Power Generation in Faroese Islands). Even to islands that only have 500 people living there.
I don’t see why the USA couldn’t increase its railway (hell, you can learn from Japan if it needs to be earthquake resistant) starting today.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Counterpoint: all countries in the European case are in the Schengen area, and you can make the entire journey without ever having to take your passport out of your pocket. The same cannot be said in the American case.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 11 months ago