• RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Not even the longest route within one state by a long shot:

    As usual, California beats Texas

    • TheWonderfool@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      This blew my European mind. Not because of the length of the road, but because it’s only 7$… Where I live highways are bloody expensive!

  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    IMO the USA doesn’t have that much “space” it just takes awhile to cross. Land utilization is fairly high and much of unused lands needs constant conservation efforts to maintain wildlife.

    • crazyCat@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      I mean, you have tons of space there. You spent much time in more densely populated places? I live in China and there are 5 to 6 x more people here for the same size land area as the US. There is so much less free space. Very, very much less!

      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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        8 months ago

        If the space is inhabited by nature or agriculture then it isn’t “free space”. Free space is empty paved lots, barren brine pits, etc.

  • zerofk@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Pff, with traffic jams you can do that without ever leaving Brussels.

    • Shou@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Drove from normandy through belgium to the netherlands. Can confirm. We saw traffic jams unlike ever before. Tried to take a shortcut, but ended up in Brussel’s airport. Later after some redirections, we almost ended up in antwerpen airport too. Nothing there makes sense. Not even the parking lots.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
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      8 months ago

      I was coming in with this cause it’s straighter haha.

      Then see you WA post.

      I’ve done both of these trips before too and them some to get where I’m actually going

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Euros: Why didn’t Americans go to other countries?

    Americans: there’s only three countries on our entire damned continent, and ours is in the middle. Without needing to fly we have literally two choices. It we could drive for a thousand miles and still be in America.

    All of continental Europe is smaller than our country and we mostly all speak the same language, more or less. It’s debatable if Louisianans speak English.

  • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Btw you can do it also in Germany more or less.

    I believe it’s possible also in France .

    Edit: don’t want to insult anyone, I was just curious, nothing else.

      • Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        As stated in other comments I don’t care about dimensions, I wanted to share just a trivia and not spark a dumb contest (spoiler, it did not work)

    • Vespair@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Yes, those are countries, not single states within a country. Different things.

      edit: ya’ll are acting so fucking weird in this comment thread. Jesus Christ I don’t even give a shit about the size of America or the US/EU pissing contest, I was merely and correctly pointing out the non-equivalence of the items being compared. Holy shit get a fucking life if you give two shits about the topic itself, goddamn. The hate boner some of you have for one country or another to the point of spite downvoting and intentionally misinterpreting shit is fucking ridiculous.

    • teft@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      My question is how much of that is highway travel and/or straight? In the Texas map most of that travel will be highways at 80mph. I know Germany has the autobahn but living in Colombia has made me suspicious of long travel times which actually have short distances traveled since this country is very mountainous and I don’t think a straight road exists here.

      • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
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        8 months ago

        1/3 to 1/2 of the Texas trip will be interstate highways. The rest is mixed bag of divided highways with at grade crossings and two lane highways.

    • yeather@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      For comparison, Bellingham, WA to Key West, FL. Same country, 2 days without stops.

      • deus@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        I tried Brazil. Got 79h going East to West from Recife to Cruzeiro do Sul and 90h going South to North from Chuí to Oiapoque. Granted, our roads aren’t the best but you’re still looking at over 5000km of travel either way.

    • The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.worldOP
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      8 months ago

      In addition to the other comment about it being a single state within the US, we’re also talking about roughly 1500-1600 kilometers in the Texas map. It would mostly be 70-75mph (120kph) highways the whole way.

  • ciapatri@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Meanwhile in Canada it takes nearly a full day to drive from one side of Ontario to the other. I have more faith in the European mind comprehending this than the USA’ean mind.

  • DJDarren@thelemmy.clubEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Here in the UK I could spend 13 hours on the M25 and would have only gone four junctions. The American mind cannot comprehend this.

    • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      8 months ago

      You can do the same thing a few different ways on I-40. For real along a stretch in New Mexico and Texas, there’s very little between Santa Rosa and Amarillo. You can also do it here on the east coast, if you do about 40 laps of Raleigh, 25 if one of those hours is between 5 and 6 pm.

  • fibojoly@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    And I bet it was all filler content and shitty roaming monster encounters. Open world design has gone too far!

  • Norgur@fedia.io
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    8 months ago

    Yep, I cannot comprehend how there is so much space allocated to so few people and they still drown in one fucking housing crisis after another.

    If you are going to gobble up that much space for yourselves on this planet that we all share, stop fucking around and put it to good use!

    • AFK BRB Chocolate@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      The housing crisis has zero to do with available space, except that in the hubs of industry, like silicon valley, there are more people wanting to live there than there’s space. That’s not true across the country.

      But no one is going to build a house in the middle of nowhere to help with housing because (a) hardly anyone wants to live in the middle of nowhere, away from all the jobs, and (b) the people building housing are motivated to get as much money as they can.

      We as a society could 100% solve the housing crisis, but it involves socialism, not capitalism, which a lot of Americans still have a problem with. The solution isn’t constrained by space, which the US has tons of.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
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        8 months ago

        I’m all for the socialism, but could we also get the homestead act back? Free land and a grant to build a house if we’re willing to go rural as fuck and grow our own food. Maybe combine with eco friendly stuff. Have to build a cob house, must use ecologically safe farming techniques.

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      We have trains, they’ll just take 2-3x as long.

      And I’m not really exaggerating, to get from SLC to Denver would take 15 hours (and departs at 3:30AM; no other options), vs ~8 hours in a car. Oh, if you want a sleeper car with a bunkbed, that’ll be 2x the cost of a hotel room.

      So yeah, it’s an option, just a really crappy one.