Hey girl : memes

[+] velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml 48 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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[-] davel@lemmy.ml 69 points 6 months ago

No, it’s just about 4,700 km.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 20 points 6 months ago

Yeah, living in a country you can travel from border to border on a train in 12 hours has some benefits to it

[-] SnotFlickerman 40 points 6 months ago

This would be possible in the US also if the government was willing to put money into bullet trains but like whatever I guess.

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 39 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The people in the meme are at about Seattle and NYC, which is a little over 3k miles apart (by car). You'd need to be going 250mph for the entire 12 hours to make that distance. A quick google search says that the maximum operating speed of a bullet train is 200mph, but tests have been conducted at 275mph.

So, you'd need to go non-stop at 125% max speed to make the trip in 12 hours. Even if you went at 275mph, realistically you'd make a lot of stops along the way, which is going to make the average speed a lot lower. Trains are great, but the US is really big.

Bonus fact: a non-stop flight from Seattle to NYC takes about 5.5 hours.

[-] akakunai@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago

I love me some bullet trains, but there is a certain distance that makes planes way more viable.

There should be a lot more (and higher quality) high speed rail between cities of moderate distance, however.

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 6 months ago

Chinese high speed train network operates at 120–240 mph, and their maglev (very short, very expensive, very fast train route from Shanghai airport to the city centre) had the record at 268 mph. Plus, railroad may be slightly shorter due to how it is designed if the road isn't near straight already.

But yes, 3000 miles is a lot and maybe 12 hours will not be achievable for a long time yet

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 6 months ago

3k.miles by car? Are miles by train different?

[-] Vent@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, it depends on where the roads and rails are built and how direct their paths are.

[-] EldritchFeminity 13 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately, all the electric train startups were bought up and closed down by diesel train companies decades ago, and the majority of the rail lines are owned by freight companies as well. This is partly why public train transit is so bad: the government has to lease the tracks from the freight companies, who get priority on the lines over public trains, meaning that if there's freight traffic the commuter rail has to wait for the freight lines to go through first.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

decades ago? those people are all dead now. let's try again.

[-] Nikls94@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

If it’s germany, if one of you lives in the north and the other in the south, it’s cheaper to fly to Mallorca and meet there.

[-] crushyerbones@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

If it's the UK it's cheaper to meet in a random ass village in Lapland. (Or Mallorca).

[-] sukhmel@programming.dev 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, I tried trains in Germany and Italy, the prices were crazy 🤣

[-] knightly@pawb.social 57 points 6 months ago

Queer folks have a bad habit of falling in love with people on the other side of the country.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

I think this is a problem for people of every sexuality.

[-] Maven@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago

It's often especially bad in queer/minority communities because the dating pool is much smaller.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

That makes sense. Anybody who has less compatible dating options than average for whatever reason is more likely to run into this.

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[-] ChefWhite@aussie.zone 10 points 6 months ago

Or planet.

[Sighs in time zone ten hours out of sync with crush]

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 4 points 6 months ago

Ah. Thank you.

[-] Revonult@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

Two people met online and live on opposite sides of the country.

[-] Drusas@kbin.run 11 points 6 months ago

Right, but that's not humorous.

[-] figaro@lemdro.id 5 points 6 months ago

I think for people who have had long distance relationships it kinda is. Like I would say something like that to my ex, but we both knew it was impossible. Sort of a dark humor but you do what you have to do in those situations

[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 19 points 6 months ago

My thought was that it's an obscure joke about the two Washingtons in the USA. Like, the state in the north-west corner is called "Washington" and then there's the capital city of the USA on the east coast, called "Washington, D.C.".

But Washington, D.C., is further south from where the person is placed, so I'm guessing not...

[-] storcholus@feddit.de 14 points 6 months ago

I thought it was a u haul lesbian joke

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-Haul_lesbian

[-] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 months ago

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[-] Drusas@kbin.run 11 points 6 months ago

I'm an American and also don't see the humor in it.

[-] monk@lemmy.unboiled.info 14 points 6 months ago

I think the joke is your public transport.

[-] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 points 6 months ago

No country on Earth has public transportation that would make a cross-continent relationship feasible.

[-] Midnitte@beehaw.org 2 points 6 months ago

No single country sure, but uh...

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[-] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 1 points 6 months ago

What does that have to do with anything? Or is it just a "haha America bad"?

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

They're both in coastal states that aren't in the southeast, so odds are they're both blue.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Coming out next fall: RvB: Politics

[-] Superfool@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

Just fold the map in half, like in Event Horizon.

Shit worked out fine.

[-] EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 2 points 6 months ago

Or a Mad Magazine Fold-In

[-] troglodytis@lemmy.world 28 points 6 months ago

I wish the East Coast person was in Portland, ME

[-] Funkytom467@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

I had worse one time, met a Quebec girl, she introduced me to a friend, a guy from Martinique. And i'm from France...

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 16 points 6 months ago

Pfft I'm in the us and mine was in Australia. That shit lasted longer than some of our IRL relationships.

[-] Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

I've been in a long distance relationship for 5 years now, still gong strong!

[-] Pelicanen@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 months ago

How do you make it work? I've been in a few but after a while the heartache from missing them gets unbearable.

[-] FlembleFabber@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago

I feel like "making it work" often is working towards a long term goal of living together in the future

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[-] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Hey there Delilah..

[-] apotheotic@beehaw.org 6 points 6 months ago

I'm in this picture and I don't like it

[-] buzz86us@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Literally me every time I find someone bearable

[-] Spiralvortexisalie@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

These people are mad that it takes a whole day to visit someone in the middle of nowhere. These are clearly children that can’t afford anything or agitators, #DontFeedBears

[-] MrVilliam@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

What?

Memes

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