Checkmate, Americans
Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
giantfloppycock@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Drewelite@lemmynsfw.com 2 months ago
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Are there beans in Sagres?
SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yes.
popcap200@lemmy.ml 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
we also actually have usable train services
popcap200@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, that makes sense to me!
mkwt@lemmy.world 2 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).
Siegfried@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Holy shit, i just took that same freaking screenshot…
Vent@lemm.ee 2 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 2 months ago
Don’t make me post a journey from County Cork to Vladivostok you daftie 😂
Vent@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Please do! I must know the longest possible drive in every continent.
psud@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think you’d start in Capetown
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 2 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 2 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 2 months ago
Vladivostok is Asia imo. East of the Urals/Turkey is Asia by most definitions.
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Eurasia is one continent
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
186 hours to Magadan. 22 hours more than to Vladivostok.
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uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Not from County Cork, but from Zapolarny to Magadan: Image
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Route to Magadan is usually longer
cloudless@lemmy.cafe 2 months ago
OP said eurobean. As far as I know, Europe is a continent. Anyway, borders are meaningless.
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gregorum@lemm.ee 2 months ago
RIP Carl
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
xkcd.com/2906/
Vent@lemm.ee 2 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 2 months ago
I’m not sure why you included Ukraine or Palestine as if they chose what happened to them.
uis@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Geology says Eurasia is continent
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2 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 2 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.