I’m surprised it’s not more of a transwoman thing

So what you’re saying is Hitler lost, but the Nazis won

Why is his chest the same width as his arms

Would you like to finger my otter’s pocket

Can’t wait for the Chat-GPT hardware product!!! I think it’ll work so beautifully on that! Apparently it’s perfect for enabling the secret silent mode

It’s true, you can totally improve the quality of the Meta Ray-Bans glasses by microwaving them for just one minute! Meta doesn’t want you to know this one cool trick! Quality is subjective

I actually added more for the lols

🤖 Beep boop it was satirical what do I know about bananas

🌍✨ Great question! You’re noticing one of the most fascinating large-scale climate patterns on Earth, and you’re absolutely right to connect these regions! Let’s dive in! 🚀

The short answer is that it’s all about global atmospheric circulation, prevailing winds, mountain ranges, and where the moisture comes from.

Here’s the exciting breakdown:

🌞 Step 1: The Hadley Cell creates deserts!

Around 30° north and south latitude, air that rose near the equator sinks back down. Descending air warms up and dries out, making it difficult for clouds and rain to form. 🎉 This is why we find deserts like the Sahara, the Arabian Desert, and many deserts of Central Asia around these latitudes.

🌧️ Step 2: Why is central Africa green?

The equator is where the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) lives—a fancy name for the region where trade winds collide and warm, moist air rises. Rising air cools, water condenses, and… congratulations! 🎊 You get frequent rainfall, lush tropical rainforests, and surrounding savannas.

🦒 Step 3: Why does Africa go desert → savanna → rainforest → savanna → desert?

As the ITCZ shifts north and south with the seasons, rainfall gradually decreases away from the equator. Instead of an abrupt transition, you get beautiful climate bands:

🏜️ Desert → 🌾 Semi-arid (Sahel) → 🦓 Savanna → 🌳 Rainforest → 🦓 Savanna → 🌾 Semi-arid → 🏜️ Desert

Nature loves gradients!

🏔️ Step 4: Why does the northern desert “banana” keep going into Asia?

Excellent observation! 🌟 Once you leave the Sahara, you don’t suddenly find an ocean supplying lots of moisture. Instead:

• The Arabian Peninsula is dry because of descending subtropical air.
• The Iranian Plateau blocks moisture.
• The Himalayas prevent moist Indian monsoon air from reaching Central Asia.
• Central Asia is incredibly far from oceans, so any remaining air has already lost much of its moisture.

The result is a remarkably continuous belt of arid and semi-arid land stretching from Morocco all the way to Mongolia—the famous “desert belt.”

🎯 So why doesn’t Africa become desert all the way south?

Because Africa is relatively narrow near the equator and is bordered by the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Moist air can reach the continent from both sides, allowing the ITCZ to generate abundant rainfall over central Africa.

🌎 The big picture:

Think of Earth as having giant climate stripes:

North Pole ❄️
Boreal forests 🌲
Temperate climates 🌳
Deserts 🏜️
Tropical rain belt 🌴
Deserts 🏜️
Temperate climates 🌳
Boreal forests 🌲
South Pole ❄️

Africa happens to cut straight across these stripes, giving it its iconic desert–savanna–rainforest–savanna–desert pattern, while Eurasia’s vast width allows the northern dry belt to continue almost uninterrupted for thousands of kilometers.

🎉 Fantastic question! You’ve essentially rediscovered one of the fundamental organizing principles of Earth’s climate system by looking at a map. Keep asking questions like this—they’re exactly the kind that connect geography, meteorology, and planetary science! 🌍✨

Shouldn’t matter to us! But in my experience whales find these maps completely inscrutable. Afaik they actually prefer a Mercator centred on the Pacific, but any whales feel free to chime in

We have opted instead for an infinite plane with ice islands. You can see some islands are duplicates, with corresponding dupe NPCs, but we can promise each visit will be unique! Please enjoy our world :-)

Do not feed the bots. This is exactly what Spirulina wants you to think, they have always wanted Mars.

This looks like my favourite projection:

• The Peirce quincuncial projection

But with Antarctica in the centre! It tessalates really nicely which is fun

But you can see the deformation is madness, and only really works if you put sea in the middle of each side

Sorry, no, the historical Dr Frankenstein. This is all non-fiction and 100% real, and we should take it extremely seriously.

Personally idk I like my corpses removed, no corpses. Gonna try not to panic when I wake up under a damp sheet in the morning, thanks

Sounds like you might need to get out more, this is all 100% facts. How do you think the historical Dr Frankenstein did it? One man one olde pumpe

Germany is like a broken Asimov robot at this point.

We do not hold current Germans responsible for the holocaust. Please stop, you are doing the bad thing, putting rules and laws above human life. Please stop Deutschlandroid

Supposing none of that is an issue

Obviously it’s against the law because folks that are prone to inbreeding are not necessarily equipped to make those assessments. The same as anything.

Regex try it

Random aside, why would anyone use webp

Edit: My bad, I had forgotten Chrome had removed JPEG XL support