Is this a red/blue state reference I’m too non-American to understand?
Two people met online and live on opposite sides of the country.
Right, but that’s not humorous.
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
No, it’s about 2 people talking online, and there’s some 5 billion dish machines distance between them making the travel difficult or expensive
anything but the metric system
exactly
Queer folks have a bad habit of falling in love with people on the other side of the country.
I think this is a problem for people of every sexuality.
It’s often especially bad in queer/minority communities because the dating pool is much smaller.
That makes sense. Anybody who has less compatible dating options than average for whatever reason is more likely to run into this.
No, it’s just about 4,700 km.
Yeah, living in a country you can travel from border to border on a train in 12 hours has some benefits to it
This would be possible in the US also if the government was willing to put money into bullet trains but like whatever I guess.
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.
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.
Just fold the map in half, like in Event Horizon.
Shit worked out fine.
Pfft I’m in the us and mine was in Australia. That shit lasted longer than some of our IRL relationships.
Careful with the distance ones. A girl I worked with left her spouse and took her kids to AUS to be with her dream partner; who only forgot to disclose the fact that he was a high level drug dealer. Sometimes you miss out on important details like that, so just be careful.
