OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.
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Vent@lemm.ee 8 months agoOh, the entire continent is fair game?
5 days 20 hours to drive from bottom of Panama to top of Alaska
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
gregorum@lemm.ee 8 months ago
RIP Carl
Vent@lemm.ee 8 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 8 months ago
I’m not sure why you included Ukraine or Palestine as if they chose what happened to them.
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Geology says Eurasia is continent
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 8 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 8 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 8 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 8 months ago
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 8 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.
canihasaccount@lemmy.world 8 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.
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 8 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 8 months ago
European mind
Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Don’t make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂
Vent@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.
psud@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I think you’d start in Capetown
Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It takes three screenshots
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MotoAsh@lemmy.world 8 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 8 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.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 8 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.
odium@programming.dev 8 months ago
Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Eurasia is one continent
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
186 hours to Magadan. 22 hours more than to Vladivostok.
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uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Not from County Cork, but from Zapolarny to Magadan: Image
uis@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Route to Magadan is usually longer