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Captain Monkey posted:That’s not even enough distance to leave my state. Leave the euros alone, they don't get it
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Lol that's weekend trip driving distance Imagine driving a few hours and complaining things aren't different than where you started
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Jul 4, 2021 16:40
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Manager Hoyden posted:Lol that's weekend trip driving distance Talking to Europeans about the size and scale of the US is always fun. They always lord "you never leave your country" like it's easy for someone in middle America to just up and leave. Telling them I drove for 28 hours straight averaging about 70mph and barely got about 2/3rds of the way across usually puts it into some perspective.
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Jul 4, 2021 16:52
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There's also nothing to see in Europe except for castles that are different from the castles in your country. The cut down all their forests, and all their mountains are owned by the inbred children of nazi collaborators.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:06
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Oh wow you took a train to another country and had lunch in a cafe. Fantastic. I stayed in my country and saw a landscape of such unique breath taking majesty that the first descriptions of them from European explorers were dismissed as ravings brought on by temporary madness.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:09
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It's more that I think you can appreciate the differences in both small and big things, and find joy from that. Like going into a church that's built in a particular style and reading all the stuff that makes it unique, looking at the lives of people so far removed from you but whose memories have been left on stone and wood for us to read. It's not life changing, or even particularly wonderful, but it is special and something I appreciate. I know not everyone is going to and sometimes a big change is great too. It's just that if you boil things down to their bare essentials it easily becomes a flattening of experience that robs you of any joy. "Oh you went and ate in new places and slept in a new bed" doesn't really describe going on holiday to Rome does it? It's technically accurate, but it ignores a lot of the fun stuff.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:13
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Any distance you wouldn't bicycle in a day is a long distance.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:22
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Any distance you wouldn't bicycle in a day is a long distance.
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Jul 4, 2021 17:40
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fizzymercury posted:The closest grocery store to me is 12.6 miles away. Cool that you have a grocery store that isn't a long distance away?
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Jul 4, 2021 18:05
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Are there actually any US states you couldn't leave without driving 500 miles in some direction? (With the obvious exception of Hawaii I mean)
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Jul 4, 2021 18:20
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Texas is 790 miles long and 660 miles wide
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Jul 4, 2021 18:40
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Manager Hoyden posted:Texas is 790 miles long and 660 miles wide Meaning the farthest you can be from the nearest border is 330 miles. Alaska is another possibility but I'm not sure if it's big enough and can't be bothered to look it up.
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Jul 4, 2021 18:52
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docbeard posted:Meaning the farthest you can be from the nearest border is 330 miles. You're assuming all distances as the crow flies rather than following the highways though
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Jul 4, 2021 18:58
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Only a complete idiot would travel more than like maybe 100 km by road lmao. That's what railroads are for.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:02
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Getting flashbacks to another thread where a eurogoon moved to the US and was excited to drive from new York to Washington to "see the sights". I hope he enjoyed days of corn fields and gas station food.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:05
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Gaius Marius posted:You're assuming all distances as the crow flies rather than following the highways though I guess that's a good point and I did say drive. Though I suppose an off road vehicle would have fewer limitations in that regard. Now I'm curious.
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Jul 4, 2021 19:06
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Only a complete idiot would travel more than like maybe 100 km by road lmao. That's what railroads are for. That would be nice but my country intensely hates its people and providing anything useful for them, including transit Travel is either drive or fly then drive
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Jul 4, 2021 19:07
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That wouldn't have happened if you had a gun. 
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Jul 4, 2021 19:10
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There are only a few states where it is legal to travel by gun which makes it infeasible as a long distance transportation method
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Jul 4, 2021 20:15
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Cool that you have a grocery store that isn't a long distance away? Yes, come bike a bare minimum 25 miles a day in 98f with 70% minimum humidity. That's not long at all.
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Jul 4, 2021 20:23
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The best burner on the stove is the back-left one.
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Jul 4, 2021 20:39
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back left burner of the stove is where the Dutch oven gathers dust
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3D Megadoodoo posted:Only a complete idiot would travel more than like maybe 100 km by road lmao. That's what railroads are for.  Gaius Marius posted:Getting flashbacks to another thread where a eurogoon moved to the US and was excited to drive from new York to Washington to "see the sights". I hope he enjoyed days of corn fields and gas station food. I've done NY to Oregon, it's a great drive if you're smart enough to get motels outside the cities. Absolutely beautiful.
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fizzymercury posted:Yes, come bike a bare minimum 25 miles a day in 98f with 70% minimum humidity. That's not long at all. I'd get an automobile for such a scenario. LIFE HACK.
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Jul 4, 2021 21:07
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nudists are gross
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Powered Descent posted:The best burner on the stove is the back-left one. It's front right, and it's not even close. Back Right is for soups and things you don't have to touch. hawowanlawow posted:back left burner of the stove is where the Dutch oven gathers dust Do people really not put all their cookware back when not in use? Shibawanko posted:nudists are gross Both the concept and the people embracing it just seem repulsive.
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Jul 4, 2021 21:59
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Shibawanko posted:nudists are gross Nudists are also dishonest. They say "oh this is about freedom and naturalism" but then look at their solutions to life situations Isn't it gross to rest your taint on anything you sit on? Well we use towels as a barrier between the taint and the surface Don't you have to carry things? Well we wear a pouch necklace thing around our neck for that How do you keep the sun off? Oh well we wear hats What about how rough the ground it? We wear sandals too So they get the function of clothes and why humans in their current biological form have always worn them. They'll wear clothes, just not the ones that cover up the sex characteristics. You get down to it and the whole thing is about showing off dicks and vaginas. Which is fine of course, but don't dress it up and definitely don't bring kids into it.
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Jul 4, 2021 23:02
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All that "we live in a simulation" stuff is just lovely spiritualism for atheists/agnostics, and I cannot wait for the trend to die out. Edit: it sits right next to the Mandela Effect for bullshit believed by people who's egos are too fragile to just admit they're fallable humans. Fashionable Jorts has a new favorite as of 05:21 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 04:40
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Fashionable Jorts posted:All that "we live in a simulation" stuff is just lovely spiritualism for atheists/agnostics, and I cannot wait for the trend to die out. It's just Solipsism with a modern spin, I doubt it's going anywhere. Mandela Effect is great though, especially if you go down the Geography rabbit hole. So many dumbass people making hour long Youtubes of their complete failure to know any geography whatsoever.
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Jul 5, 2021 06:11
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Gaius Marius posted:It's just Solipsism with a modern spin, I doubt it's going anywhere. "Could it be that I have a poo poo memory? No, no, that can't be it. I'm the protagonist, clearly there's some elaborate dimensional shifts and I'm falling through other realities. That's the most obvious answer." Edit: I feel like the simulation stuff is different than solipsism. It's people taking odd coincidences and interesting 'quirks' of the world around us and prescribing a higher power to it. Just instead of God, spirits, or what have you, it's reworded to be computer software since thats what's trendy right now. However, when people talk about there's no way of knowing you're just a brain in a jar being stimulated by electrodes, anyone who takes it more seriously than "that's a neat thought experiment" is combining that brand of spiritualism, solipsism, and an inflated ego. Fashionable Jorts has a new favorite as of 07:04 on Jul 5, 2021 |
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Jul 5, 2021 06:20
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Fashionable Jorts posted:"Could it be that I have a poo poo memory? No, no, that can't be it. I'm the protagonist, clearly there's some elaborate dimensional shifts and I'm falling through other realities. That's the most obvious answer." "I'm just having fun!" I say as I obsessively, compulsively make long videos and continue to parrot the idea long after everyone-- including me-- have stopped laughing about it.
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Jul 5, 2021 07:10
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Gaius Marius posted:Getting flashbacks to another thread where a eurogoon moved to the US and was excited to drive from new York to Washington to "see the sights". I hope he enjoyed days of corn fields and gas station food. When my uncle was deployed in Germany, he picked up a car to take home with him back to Toronto. The local German he bought it from recommended a really good mechanic in Edmonton, and told my uncle to just "pop over" for maintenance. 33+ hours of non-stop driving each way.
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If we had a full appreciation of our own insignificance I don't think much would get done. I know thinking that stuff only happens to oneself is what a lot of people mean when they think "protagonist of reality". But it could be because you are the only person you have direct influence over.
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Jul 5, 2021 07:52
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Manager Hoyden posted:Nudists are also dishonest. They say "oh this is about freedom and naturalism" but then look at their solutions to life situations theres a nudist organization here that keeps showing an annoying tv ad about how free they are etc, the whole thing has a vaguely anti-corona measures undertone to it. the newspaper interviewed them and they were like "society is so prudish nowadays, schoolboys even take showers after gym class WEARING PANTS" and i was like yeah theyre perverts
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Jul 5, 2021 08:28
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the worst thing about france is that a lot of swimming pools actually enforce speedos for men, like you cant wear trunks like most dutch men tend to do. you simply have to wear the most ball-squeezing, dickshape-revealing type of men's swimming apparel or you can't swim. i think the rationalization is something like "trunks could carry dirt" but thats clearly bullshit
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Jul 5, 2021 08:31
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Shibawanko posted:the worst thing about france is that a lot of swimming pools actually enforce speedos for men, like you cant wear trunks like most dutch men tend to do. you simply have to wear the most ball-squeezing, dickshape-revealing type of men's swimming apparel or you can't swim. i think the rationalization is something like "trunks could carry dirt" but thats clearly bullshit I wouldn’t call that the worst thing about France, but it’s pretty crummy!
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Jul 5, 2021 09:41
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it's even government policy. i picture a perverted bureaucrat, giddily rubbing his hands at the thought of all of those men who are forced to wear speedos against their will
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Jul 5, 2021 10:06
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"Oh no I have to wear actual swimwear to swim in a publicly-funded swimming pool instead of my FREEDOM SHORTS this is worse than
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Jul 5, 2021 12:53
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It's worse than swimming in shorts.
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Imagine gatekeeping swimwear.
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