don't get the skin cancer

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    really do not feel like white people were meant to be anywhere other than europe/ maybe the arctic circle. its a catastrophe that i have to exist in america as a pale person, i burn in 10 minutes here. whenever im in czechia i feel like the sun isnt actively trying to kill me

    • Ideology [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      For perspective, Paris is on the same latitude line as St. John's, Newfoundland; Manchester, UK is on the same lattitude as Edmonton, Alberta; Rome is the same as New York City; and Miami, Florida is roughly the same as Ghat, Libya or Medina, Saudi Arabia.

    • Glass [he/him,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Asia is okay too for how rainy and plant-grown it is. I would love to go somewhere more like that once I can escape from my current sun-fried concrete neoliberal hell

    • FidelCashflow [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      We did literally evolve for that. I got some desert dna but my wife doesn't. She can't be outside during peak summer or she will get a heatstroke and start puking but she can just frolic in the high desert night