CarbonIceDragon ( @CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social ) 57•6 months agoWho knew, Texas is bigger than Luxembourg
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 9•6 months agoWhich is crazy since Luxemburg has its own language while Texas is speaking the same as Ireland which is already bigger than Luxemburg
Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 40•6 months agoEuropeans thinking a 2h trip is a long ass trip. Then they come visit North America thinking they can visit from coast to coast by car in two weeks.
North Americans going to Europe thinking it’ll take 4 hours to go from one city to the next when they can actually cross three whole countries in that time frame.
DragonTypeWyvern ( @DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ) 53•6 months agoThe most culture shock I’ve ever experienced was being in southern France, craving some Italian, and realizing I can literally just go to Italy for dinner.
Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 19•6 months agoHahahahaha right??? Ain’t that crazy?
Edit:
Same happened to me. Was in South West of France. Saw a board on the highway that said Barcelona was 3h away. Like what???
So we went to Barcelona for a weekend because why the fuck not.
thedevisinthedetails ( @thedevisinthedetails@programming.dev ) 26•6 months ago2h is a long ass trip we’ve just been gaslit
Cyborganism ( @cyborganism@lemmy.ca ) 17•6 months agoIf only we had a high speed rail system like in Japan…
018118055 ( @018118055@sopuli.xyz ) 21•6 months agoAm European. I drove from sfo to nyc in 4.5 days. Would I do that again? No.
nick ( @nick@midwest.social ) 3•6 months agoSame, took 5. Still brutal as hell
Hawk ( @Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English17•6 months agoNo we don’t think 2 hours is a long ass trip. We think 2 hours is a long ass commute.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 39•6 months agoAs the old saying goes, “Europeans think 100 miles is a long way, Americans think 100 years is a long time.”
Something Burger 🍔 ( @SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ) 14•6 months agoEuropeans don’t know what 100 miles is.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 13•6 months agoThat’s a common misconception. Europeans hate standard measurements, but they aren’t dumb. They can do conversions.
stebo ( @stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•6 months agofair enough but we don’t really have a feel for how far a mile is without converting it to kilometres first
Honytawk ( @Honytawk@lemmy.zip ) 13•6 months agoWe don’t have to, because we don’t live in the 3 countries that use them.
stebo ( @stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•6 months agowe live on the internet that uses it a lot though
FrederikNJS ( @FrederikNJS@lemm.ee ) 5•6 months agoIt’s nice to have some quick mental conversions ready.
1 mile is roughly 1.6 km, so 100 miles is roughly 160 km
3 feet is roughly a meter
2 pounds are roughly 1 kg
1 gallon is roughly 4 liters
32 fahrenheit it 0 celcius, 100 fahrenheit is slightly over body temperature, 200 fahrenheit is almost enough to boil water… Any other value requires math to figure out…
ouRKaoS ( @ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ) 1•6 months agoAny other value requires math to figure out
-40° requires no math. Too cold to do math at that temp anyway.
lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) 1•6 months agoAnd dogs don’t know how long a human year is in dog years
Blahaj_Blast ( @Blahaj_Blast@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 36•6 months ago“Texas needs to shut up before we split in half and make Texas the 3rd biggest state”
- Alaska probably
“That’s an impressively well-typed threat for a moose.”
- Texas probably
Ranger ( @Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 1•6 months agoAlaska could be split into four equal states & Texas would be the fifth biggest.
ares35 ( @ares35@kbin.social ) 14•6 months ago“that’s not where paris is.”
--any texan.
CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@ani.social ) 13•6 months agoSo big yet 0 culture besides guns…
TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 15•6 months agoand bbq and rodeo and jesus and warm smiles and cold daggers
also all the cultural influence from Mexico, but that doesn’t count I guess
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 7•6 months agoI think the cultural influences from Mexico should count. As far as food goes, Mexican food is some amazing stuff, but the American variations are different, yet amazing in their own rights. Tex-Mex, New Mexican, and Cali-Mex are some of my favorite spins on traditional Mexican food. Plus I think you’re already including Mexican influences with BBQ and rodeo.
TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 4•6 months agoyeah there’s a lot of baggage in saying there’s no culture. cuz that also ties into the whiteness discussion. whiteness is the de facto cultural vacuum, the hegemony that eats other cultures, the mainstream, the default. so portraying texas as a cultural vacuum is sort of erasing everything non-white about it.
survivalmachine ( @survivalmachine@beehaw.org ) 2•6 months agoOh! I misinterpreted the tone of your last sentence. I getcha now! Cheers!
TimewornTraveler ( @TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months agoyeah i tread carefully, i guess cuz im used to running into chuds on geography reddit. gotta remember that i wont get inbox hate for saying “whiteness” on lemmy
0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) 2•6 months agoAnd Toadies
Rai ( @Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 1•6 months agoAnd slabs!
Match!! ( @match@pawb.social ) English2•6 months agoif Europe ever gets colonized it’ll be crushed down to the cultural equivalent of Michigan
CJOtheReal ( @CJOtheReal@ani.social ) 1•6 months agoYou people don’t even know what couture is…
0ops ( @0ops@lemm.ee ) 1•6 months agoYou got me. What’s couture?
nxdefiant ( @nxdefiant@startrek.website ) 2•6 months agoTons of culture, it’s just all living deep underground near the earths core, where it’s still warm.
rumschlumpel ( @ichmagrum@feddit.de ) Deutsch1•6 months agoOne of my favourite webcomic artists/vtubers is from Texas!
ivanafterall ( @ivanafterall@kbin.social ) 7•6 months agoOvercompensate much?
𝚝𝚛𝚔 ( @trk@aussie.zone ) English6•6 months agoI expected Texas to be a lot bigger, given the memes.
Fun fact: the largest cattle station in Australia is 8x larger than the largest cattle station in the US (which is in Texas).
Jack Napier ( @JackNapier@feddit.de ) 5•6 months ago DAMunzy ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 4•6 months agoNow do Indonesia.
Ranger ( @Ranger@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•6 months agoTexas is less than a quarter of the size of Alaska.
thmnwlf ( @thmnwlf@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•6 months agoyeah thats totally correct, love that
onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 2•6 months agoExcept the population size
rumschlumpel ( @ichmagrum@feddit.de ) Deutsch1•6 months agoYeah, bigass country yet despite its supposed awesomeness barely anyone wants to live there.
onion ( @onion@feddit.de ) 2•6 months agoI wouldn’t call 30 million barely anyone
rumschlumpel ( @ichmagrum@feddit.de ) Deutsch1•6 months agoTexas is utterly barren compared to the center of european population density that’s depicted here (ever heard of the blue banana?). I’d say that’s roughly 150 million people.