• @[email protected]
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    142 years ago

    It takes about 8 to 12 hours to drive across Texas, which is longer than it takes to cross Germany. France and Germany have different laws, and so do Texas and New Mexico. Once you realise that the USA is essentially 50 different countries stapled together, it makes a lot more sense.

    • @[email protected]
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      42 years ago

      I’d imagine that France and Germany probably have more similar laws than some US states do because of the EU.

      • Turun
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        32 years ago

        Maybe? The EU is way younger than the US though.

        • @[email protected]
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          32 years ago

          Also the EU is way less powerful over the individual EU countries than the US federal government is over the states.

      • @[email protected]
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        12 years ago

        Not so sure about this…maybe you could find two states that have very differing laws compared to France-Germany, but on the whole it’s probably not true. Kind of hard to quantify that though.