The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend
Cannot comprehend miles? Yeah, use a measurement system that makes sense!
We do, but only for bullets.
And drugs
And sugary drinks.
But I’m repeating what you said.
Hey not drug of choice, I prefer the less harmful ones like heroin 🤣
So still everyday use then!
Yeah, about that…
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)
Everybody loves those explicit sarcasm indicators. Really makes the whole joke hit harder.
Statute mile is based on 1000 paces, and came from Roman soldiers marking that distance on roads. The pace is related to height, and people used to be shorter on average.
Nautical mile is based in the circumference of the earth, with 1 nautical mile being 1 minute of one degree
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.
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.
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.
This is why the Cannonball Run was created
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 :)
That’s why they follow along with the fast track
It takes me 20 minutes to walk one mile at a normal pace. That would mean walking pretty much the whole 24 hours.
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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
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.
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
You are still not wrong about our rail system, god forbid a passenger train hold up a freight train for one second, won’t someone think of the shareholders???
It’s cause on that route the rails are over/under passes
You’d be going parallel to most railways
Try getting from one side of NYC to the other.
Two days is child’s play.
Take the L train like everybody else.
Or the E if you’re uptown
The L train smells funny.
bring your own, funnier, smell
Move to another car?
Anyway, you get used to it. Subway smell is part of nyc life
The other car smells worse and there’s a dude jerking it in the aisle.
Sounds like you got on the A train by accident, lol
E doesn’t even go north of 53rd st, not even reaching Central Park and thinking you’re uptown hurts to think about.
I said uptown, not Connecticut, Lol
Where you goin’?
The big difference here is that most Europeans would never make that drive, while an American would cherish it as a holiday.
To be fair, the US has the better National Parks that one could visit along such a trip. Europe is denser.
Very, very true.
You must know some rich Americans. 2 days off of work is quite a bit more expensive than flying.
But why does the train take twice as long?
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.
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? Fuckers. Back to reality, all US politicians are owned by corporations and oppose train infrastructure expansion, and yes, I recognize the main opposition is conservatives. But on this topic quite a few liberals are probably opposing it also, I actually don’t know and am speaking from generic observations.
Nonetheless, corporate lobbying is the root cause. Aka legalized corruption.
The reason I highlighted conservatives is because they oppose absolutely anything that costs money (which is everything), and they spend all their efforts banning books/lifestyles/scientific-phrases and well, science and medical advice from science and medicine experts. That’s all banned too. But not guns, because “bans don’t work,” (except in every other civilized first world nation in existence, but wait that doesn’t feel good to think about) so conservatives ignore that.
So you know, I guess it’s not my fault that I assume Republicans are the root cause to this problem too, since they are the root cause behind most Americans’ ills.
For all you “both sides bad” people, great, so introduce ranked choice voting in your state. That would disrupt both conservative and liberal life-long politicians. If you won’t do that, when you say “both sides bad” you are actually saying “Republicans aren’t that bad”.
Ranked choice voting, bitches. Do that shit. Read about how it works before you go ask the people in power and media-shills about it, spoiler, they fucking hate the idea because it would dethrone quite a few of them.
(Shoots AR15 into the air, the traditional American greeting and salutation for departure).
Have a nice day.
I’m sorry but Eurobeans are the OBs. Ask our living God-King:
1 Season, 15 Episodes; Mr Bean is Eternal.
This farm grows baked beans?
Yes the full can grows in the ground like a potato
Yeah, no idea what a mi is in sensible units.
1 mile ≈ 528 halves of a giraffe
They’ve updated the unit of measurement’s name to Jerhalves.
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You don’t want to hear about how many American football fields are in a mile?
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.
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
Amazing!
That sucks - I keep hearing that kind of thing from more and more people, the last person telling me that in Canada. Fwiw, it is a Saturday Night Live sketch, poking fun at ourselves as to how we inconsistently use measurement schemes, like some less popular sports use meters, but the most popular ones use the English ones like feet. I wonder why it is blocked, wherever you are.
If anyone knows, I would be interested in hearing: like should I not share YouTube videos anymore these days? Or only share/avoid certain corporate types? (Whereas certain others such as CPG Grey’s videos would truly be a tragic loss if they could not be shared) I presume Piped videos would likewise be blocked too? Are they blocked only in certain countries, or like most ones outside of the USA? Is the URL still useful, like to put into Vanced or some such, or would something else help better like the title, or again should I just not share them? I don’t know any of these answers but in any case, thank you for sharing with me your experience here.
I presume Piped videos would likewise be blocked too?
It depends which proxy piped.video happens to use at the moment. It’s a dice throw as far as I can see… I successfully watched the video this morning but neither yesterday nor right now the video is loading for me.
Oh wow, I didn’t realize it differed on the client side, I presumed it was only server.
It’s Saturday Night Live. It’s an American Humour* channel by the corpos.
* the cringy type of humour - I do not understand why people like it. Oh well.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
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A mi is one mile in sensible units.
That’s about 1609 times the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum in one 299792458th of a second.
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.
BEANS!!!
It’s weird that it’s not putting you on I-44 from St Louis to OKC.
It’s the “avoid tolls” part. I didn’t even know you could have the primary lanes of an interstate be a toll road, but I guess so. TIL.
Also included is the NY Thruway which was a toll road that was integrated into the interstate system in several parts.
Ah shit. Here we go with the beans again, unbeanlievable.
Bean there, done that
