Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend

• Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • psud@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think you’d start in Capetown

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      • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It takes three screenshots

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  • MotoAsh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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      • roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Continents are inherently arbitrary and have always been so. We divide north and south America by an impenetrable jungle that even drug smugglers cross by boat. Similarly, for the last few hundred years Europe doesn’t think that they can get past the Turks.

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  • odium@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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    • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Eurasia is one continent

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Route to Magadan is usually longer

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• cloudless@lemmy.cafe ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    xkcd.com/2906/

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  • gregorum@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RIP Carl

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  • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Geology says Eurasia is continent

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨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.

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    • NostraDavid@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨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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      • canihasaccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s fascinating, and I agree with you. Why the US hates the idea of high-speed rail is beyond me, especially because they prided themselves so much on the rail system they put together earlier in their development. In any case, the US can’t do much of anything with its debt-to-GDP as high as it is right now. They can hardly keep from shutting the government down entirely because they won’t even agree to a government budget.

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• Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  European mind

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