The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
Cannot comprehend miles? Yeah, use a measurement system that makes sense!
The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
Submitted 8 months ago by eugene171@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
fishbone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
What’s so hard to comprehend? 4 inches to a hand, 3 hands to a foot, and 5280 feet to a mile. It’s a straightforward pattern!
(I hope it’s not needed, but this is definitely sarcasm)
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Everybody loves those explicit sarcasm indicators. Really makes the whole joke hit harder.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Statute mile is based on 1000 paces
Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 8 months ago
My mind can’t comprehend those walking and biking numbers. The walking is about 70 miles a day. That’s more than double the average distance of a one day ultra marathon done everyday for a month and a half. The biking distance is about 255 miles a day. Roughly 2.5x the average daily distance for the Tour de France. I want to meet the people who can do that.
scoobford@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Google maps doesn’t account for breaks. They’re assuming you can walk at 3mph, and however much time you need to rest and eat is up to you.
Just like 1 day and 23 hours is only drive time. They’re not accounting for the naps that you will definitely need.
Iceblade02@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yep, doing that drive in that time would essentially require at least two people taking shifts driving - or one dangerous madman on some kind of drugs.
FanBlade@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
I believe it’s assuming you’re not taking breaks, in which case I think they’re a bit more reasonable is expected walking speed but perhaps less reasonable in regards to a persons ability to go without sleeping :)
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
That’s why they follow along with the fast track
intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It takes me 20 minutes to walk one mile at a normal pace. That would mean walking pretty much the whole 24 hours.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Honey, wake up, Lemmy is posting bean memes again!
beefbot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 months ago
I’m still thinkin about them beans (memes)
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Meme bean combeanation…al
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
The real thing that breaks the Euro mind about this is that you go all that way and cross 3 rails, all quite close together all things considered
#america
jake_jake_jake_@lemmy.world 8 months ago
if you are on an expressway, and often roads smaller, usually grade crossings are avoided if possible. either the rail is on a bridge, and the road dips under, or the road is on a bridge and crosses the rail. it won’t show as a hazard on the route in either of those cases.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
It’s also insanely inconsistent about showing them depending on zoom level when you look at the same route
I was just making a joke at our piss poor rail systems expense
GBU_28@lemm.ee 8 months ago
It’s cause on that route the rails are over/under passes
bleachisback@programming.dev 8 months ago
You’d be going parallel to most railways
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Try getting from one side of NYC to the other.
Two days is child’s play.
gregorum@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Take the L train like everybody else.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The L train smells funny.
Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 8 months ago
E doesn’t even go north of 53rd st, not even reaching Central Park and thinking you’re uptown hurts to think about.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 months ago
The big difference here is that most Europeans would never make that drive, while an American would cherish it as a holiday.
Duxon@feddit.de 8 months ago
To be fair, the US has the better National Parks that one could visit along such a trip. Europe is denser.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 months ago
Very, very true.
Trollception@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You must know some rich Americans. 2 days off of work is quite a bit more expensive than flying.
JayObey711@lemmy.world 8 months ago
But why does the train take twice as long?
Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
Most railways are privately owned by freight companies which passenger trains must also use. Because of this, freight trains always get priority for using the rail first while passenger trains have to wait for the line to clear before proceeding.
stembolts@programming.dev 8 months ago
47 hours isn’t so bad. I drove San Fran CA to Charlotte NC once and it took 69 hours with stops for sleep included.
But, your core point is still valid, I’ve kinda always wondered that too. I guess the other replyee explained it, freight trains get priority.
To compare a train ride I took once, I took a train from Charlotte NC to Detroit MI and that took 24 hours. The drive is 10 hours.
My takeaway, maybe we should build dedicated rails for hauling people… wait, the auto industry doesn’t want us to have that and lobbies expressly against it? Duckers. Back to reality, all US politicians are owned by corporations.
Which is the root cause.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 8 months ago
NostraDavid@programming.dev 8 months ago
1 Season, 15 Episodes; Mr Bean is Eternal.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yeah, no idea what a mi is in sensible units.
Squorlple@lemmy.world 8 months ago
1 mile ≈ 528 halves of a giraffe
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 months ago
They’ve updated the unit of measurement’s name to Jerhalves.
A_Chilean_Cyborg@feddit.cl 8 months ago
Americans would be more prone to use giraffe halves really, in the normal world there are sensible units of measurement, in the US there aren’t, that’s why the joke.
Subdivide6857@midwest.social 8 months ago
You don’t want to hear about how many American football fields are in a mile?
Eufalconimorph@discuss.tchncs.de 8 months ago
A thousand Roman paces. A pace is two steps, each about 1m, so 1mi is about 2km. The conversion from paces to meters isn’t exact, and definitions have shifted over time.
OpenStars@startrek.website 8 months ago
hakase@lemm.ee 8 months ago
A mi is one mile in sensible units.
charonn0@startrek.website 8 months ago
It’s about 4940686 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458^th^ of a second.
NostraDavid@programming.dev 8 months ago
Multiply by Phi (1.6) / the Golden Ratio (still 1.6) to get km.
Typically, this is what you need to know:
100 miles = 160 km 60 miles = 100km
tombruzzo@lemm.ee 8 months ago
This farm grows baked beans?
Entropywins@lemmy.world 8 months ago
BEANS!!!
Wogi@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The selected route has tolls in Kansas. The northern route will be pretty similar but free, at least until Illinois, I’ve never gone beyond that.
mkwt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s weird that it’s not putting you on I-44 from St Louis to OKC.
fuckingkangaroos@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Ah shit. Here we go with the beans again, unbeanlievable.
meep_launcher@lemm.ee 8 months ago
!cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 months ago
New york city?!?!
someguy3@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You mean Eunobean mind.
ReiRose@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It was prophesied
Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The crossover noone needed, but noone needed
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
East coast beans meet west coast beans
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
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Vent@lemm.ee 8 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 8 months ago
Don’t make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 8 months ago
OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.
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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.
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
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Are there beans in Sagres?
SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes.
giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 8 months ago
Checkmate, Americans
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 8 months ago
Oh, y’all wanna do cross continent! Ok Image
popcap200@lemmy.ml 8 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 8 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.
mkwt@lemmy.world 8 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 8 months ago
This is shitposting
Siegfried@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot…
NostraDavid@programming.dev 8 months ago
lol you beat me to it: i.imgur.com/0h892RM.png
Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 8 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.