Comments on: Open thread 6/25/2026

By: Boobah

Boobah — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:59:12 +0000

“I didn’t realize I5 was the.longest”

It’s not, and the video never claimed it was. The claim was that I-5 was the only interstate that ran from the Canadian border to the Mexican border. Any of the coast-to-coast routes is longer; It’s not even the longest N-S route, since I-75 runs from Sault Ste. Marie to Miami. Even ignoring the eighty miles across Florida at the end, it’s still more than 300 miles longer.

By: Barry Meislin

Barry Meislin — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:10:21 +0000

“…typical…”

Just a sec.
How do we know they’re not aliens…sent on a secret mission to discombobulate, confuse and demoralize?

(For that matter, how do WE know we’re not aliens…?)

By: FOAF

FOAF — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:15:54 +0000

“Calling an interstate “The 5” or “The 10” is definitely a California—or SoCal—thing”

SoCal. I live in the San Francisco bay area and almost nobody uses it here.

By: R2L

R2L — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:53:15 +0000

Oldflyer, we have seen sheriff’s cars on the interstates we have traveled. And not illogically, we have seen city LEO’s patrolling on interstates going through a major city.

By: neo

neo — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:15:34 +0000

Snow on Pine:

YouTube or TikTok “influencers” are hardly typical of anything. But they do get a loud megaphone to spread the word to others.

It’s hard to say about the numbers.

Most of the younger generation I know are quite normal in that regard, are married, have children, and have stable relationships. But are they typical? Yes, but not as typical as they used to be.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:02:03 +0000

P.S. And from what I can see, this warped situation is not confined just to the black community, it seems to exist —to some extent— all over.

Or is it that normal women are not the ones you see on, or who are appearing on YouTube.

By: Snow on Pine

Snow on Pine — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:55:21 +0000

Looking at YouTube, a lot of often over weight women, mostly black, who already have a lot of baggage— two or three children, often by different men—come on shows like that of the late Kevin Samuels, and talk about how they want a “ high value man,” someone earning hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, and they have a lot of demands, but never list what they might bring to such a relationship—“queens” that they believe themselves to be, they just want to sit back and be taken care of.

What the hell has happened to the relationship between men and women?

By: Kate

Kate — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:44:23 +0000

I-40 is 2556.61 miles from Barstow, CA, to Wilmington, NC.

By: Lee Also

Lee Also — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 21:36:28 +0000

Shirehome — I punched in Directions form Houlton Airport to Vizcay Museum and Gardens in Google Maps, and the shortest distance (presumably all th way on I-95) is 1845 miles. If you want to go to the End of “95” in Canada, Woodstock NB, that adds 16 miles.

From the Peace Arch, right on the Border with Canada to the San Ysidro Bording Crossing is 2,222 miles.

So, yeah, the 5 is definitely longer.

By: Richard Aubrey

Richard Aubrey — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:25:29 +0000

Couple of items about the interstates. There’s lots of info available but the best description of the origin is in Winchester’s “The Men Who United The States”. It’s a series of essays about the inventors or developers of…roads, macadam, telegraph, canals, television, so forth. One has to do with a convoy of trucks the US Army sent from DC to Oakland, CA in 1919. Took two months and twenty-one soldiers were injured in the process. Goal was to find out if there was a useful alternative to railroads for long-distance military logistics. Turns95 out roads weren’t it. One of the officers in the operation was Ike, and it seemed to have marked him.
It was Ike who started the National Defense Highway Act. It’s not the long-distance commuter convenience act.
One indication of its purpose is a couple of the interstates. I runs from Duluth, a deep water port, to Corpus, Christi, ditto. West of there are no more north-south interstates because….no deep water ports to connect until the coast. I95 runs from Florida north past every useful deep water port on the east coast. And, having cleared Boston, continues into northern New England. Why do we need an interstate, high-volume and high-speed capable, in the piney woods of Maine? To connect with the TransCanada Highway which runs to St. Johns, a useful port in both world wars.