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In the US, there's a good chance you haven't even left your state either (startrek.website)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

I'm not Siberian, but from what I've gathered from the talks of people who lived there, is that people in far east Russia have a weird sense of time and distance. You might be in in the middle of fuck nowhere with the closest living person being like a 100km away from you, but when you call them with some any dumb questions like "Hey do you happen to have a bottle opener?" they respond with "Sure, I'll be there shortly" and then they do indeed arrive... in 4 hours. It's as if they don't have places to be, and it's totally okay for them to spend an entire day driving to a shop or to friend to lend them a screwdriver. It's especially baffling to people who lived their entire lives within ~40km Moscow's ring road and they hear stuff like "Minsk? Sure, that's like a hand's reach away - only 720 kilometers. I'll drop by on the weekend".