Maybe it’s a phallic thing

Life on earth

my wall map… radom https://cdn.nostr.build/i/cfbc46b587c55eeff14c074f41ee98289fbfd3e339e0d8952a9dbe6f5a87ded3.jpg

https://youtu.be/-5wpm-gesOY

A map of how gay you are

Even more random: https://m.primal.net/HHJM.jpg

Mercator vs Peters Projection!

#UTC fixes this.

Are we alreday progressed enough for indiscrete location-time? I mean with digital devices knowing where they are all the time, why even time zones?

Random in retrospect. Colonial supremacy initially.

On the other hand, this is also random.. https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_4289989935986098621690705602.webp

Check out the slicing of Antartica, it's a perfect pie chart 😹 https://m.primal.net/HHJa.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antarctica,_territorial_claims.svg By Lokal_Profil, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4303475

An inherent problem with taking the globe model as fact, is you need to maintain ridiculous levels of cognitive dissonance. A perfect globe would have 24 equal time zones. People will will provide any reason why there are 30-some time zones in the northern hemisphere, and 20-some in the southern. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1kOkoma_hM

That seems unnecessarily complicated 🤨

ha, never seen yesterday and tomorrow timeline. are you in the present between those two days?

time travel.

Dateline and time is a protocol . only one can exist ..#btc

Looks mirrored. 👀

One year I had New Year twice. I flew late night from New Zealand to LAX and crossed the dateline just after midnight. I thought the flight crew/cabin crew would think this worthy of note, but they were like "Meh".

Cardinal directions are relative on the time of day

There is a small portion of Earth where travelling eastbound for a few kilometers you will have to move to adjust your watch *back* by 1 hour two times. Guess where.

There should be only one world time

India's population ranks first, China's second, and the United States' third most populous country. https://cdn.nostr.build/i/ae0a6e9f1f4df19517850cae6ed0b6dce9376ebf74c499baeb2549af707dccf0.jpg