germanoids have such innocent and childlike enthusiasm for the tropics

imagine a world where the dutch or hanseatic league had colonized central america instead of the spanish

Tropics 🌴

A zero shadow day is when the Sun does not cast a shadow of an object at solar noon. It happens twice a year for locations in the tropics

This is in Pune, India, May 13

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One of the crazy things to me about Florida is that they could have built a literal utopia by creating the Amsterdam of the tropics. Walkability, great weather, clearwater canals, the whole nine yards.

Instead, they chose to build suburbia, but with swamps.