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[โ€“] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 49 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Texas is about the size of France you daft cunts. You just can't drive there quicker because your infrastructure is so fucked ๐Ÿ˜‚

A French person takes the high speed train lmao

[โ€“] ivanafterall@kbin.social 26 points 8 months ago
[โ€“] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 11 points 8 months ago

high speed train

lol, those trains are meant for cargo and military jeeps you non-American. You gotta use the highways like god intended.

[โ€“] bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree, our infrastructure is definitely fucked. But the US has ~10 million sq km of space to France's ~552,000 sq km.

[โ€“] el_abuelo@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Europe has 10 sq km. Let's not compare pommes to oranges.

[โ€“] bassomitron@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Right, but they were the ones comparing a country to a state to begin with, so I compared a country to a country. If you want to compare continents... That's a different story.

[โ€“] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Its still over 8 hours by train and you have to deal with train people for over 8 hours.

[โ€“] Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

train people

Normal human beings

You imply the French are normal people.

[โ€“] Blamemeta@lemm.ee -3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] freebee@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

A TGV-ride is not a subway ride. Different comfort, Different prices, rather few crackheads on tgv.