Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend

cloudless@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Vent@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Oh, the entire continent is fair game?

  5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska

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  • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh the entire continent is fair game

    Don’t make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂

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    • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.

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      • psud@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I think you’d start in Capetown

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    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • Lemmeenym@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • odium@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.

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      • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Eurasia is one continent

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      186 hours to Magadan. 22 hours more than to Vladivostok.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not from County Cork, but from Zapolarny to Magadan: Image

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Route to Magadan is usually longer

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  • cloudless@lemmy.cafe ⁨9⁩ ⁨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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      xkcd.com/2906/

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    • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      RIP Carl

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    • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m not sure why you included Ukraine or Palestine as if they chose what happened to them.

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Geology says Eurasia is continent

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • canihasaccount@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Also, the US is 9.14 million sq. km of land, whereas the EU is 4.29 million sq. km of land

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    • canihasaccount@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Image

      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.

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      • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    European mind

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• ChillPenguin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Are there beans in Sagres?

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  • SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yes.

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• giantfloppycock@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Checkmate, Americans

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  • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh, y’all wanna do cross continent! Ok Image

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok.

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      • Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s two continents depending on the geologist you talk to 😂

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    • ADTJ@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      There isn’t really an agreed definition of a continent.

      Arguably Afro-Eurasia is all one interconnected continent

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• popcap200@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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  • bleistift2@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      we also actually have usable train services

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    • popcap200@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, that makes sense to me!

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  • mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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).

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  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This is shitposting

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    • popcap200@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Oh I was genuinely curious if people drive across Europe like this often.

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      • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot…

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• NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  lol you beat me to it: i.imgur.com/0h892RM.png

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• Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨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.

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