Every second you travel on a highway, at 70MPH, you travel 31.29 meters. The minimum standard (US) highway width for a two-lane highway is 15.8 meters. That means, that one second of travel used at minimum 494.38 square meters of ground space. The average apartment size in the US is 916 square feet or 85 square meters.
For every second you drive on a (2-lane) highway in the US, you're driving through a space that could have been instead used for a 6-floor apartment building that could hold 34 apartments.
🟡 BREAKING: Soldiers block opposition politicians from entering the parliament in Seoul, Republic of Korea, after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law, accusing the left-leaning bloc that controls the national assembly of DPRK sympathies and plotting rebellion.
🟡 BREAKING: The military of the Republic of Korea has issued its first martial law decree following President Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law. The decree grants the military near unrestricted control over the country while prohibiting any opposition.
🟡 BREAKING: Special forces of the Republic of Korea are storming the National Assembly as the military has announced the suspension of all parliamentary activity. This comes less than an hour after President Yoon Suk Yeol declared emergency martial law in the country.
HR 5349 (118) An act that would task the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation to create an anticommunist high school curriculum. Currently on track to be considered by the House. https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/hr5349
