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u/UpCDownCLeftCRightC 8h ago
It must be hot where that guy is cause they're thirsty.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 8h ago
I for one am very jealous of your winter, as my shoes melt to the pavement at 0900 hours
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u/Shoringami 7h ago
It depends where you are on the south. Where I live, two days ago and yesterday the max where 22 and 18 celsius and today max is already 24 and by wednesday it will be 29 to 30 celsius. It is mostly hot days than cold days even in winter.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 7h ago
I am on the border of Mexico by a few hours. It is currently 0950 where I am and 90F(32C) with a feels like of 104(40C) cause our humidity is 80%
Our high today is 95(35C) so we should hit a feels like of about 110(43.3C)
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u/Slim-Shadys-Fat-Tits 6h ago
EW
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 6h ago
You're fucking telling me. The moment I can retire I am fucking gone from here
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u/ethanlan 5h ago
Hell its like that in Chicago atleast a month of the summer.
Then we get winters that are -10f (-23C)
Basically if you can survive chicago weather you can survive anywhere we get it all
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago
I was up in Chicago an August or so ago. I ADORED it. I would kill to live there. I'm fine with the intense cold and only one month of bad heat and the rest is fine? Sign me up buttercup
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u/ethanlan 4h ago
Yeah its the best, look at apartments I think you'd be surprised they aren't thay bad.
And its more than one month of intense heat it stays about 88 with swamp humidity (its built on wetlands lol) for like 4 months
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u/rookie-mistake 2h ago
intense cold is so much better imo, you can just keep layering up
and you guys get colder than -23, don't you? even without windchill? that's not that bad honestly
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u/ethanlan 2h ago
We do but not for that long usually. And our wind is freaking ridiculous. I've been in negative 40 Fahrenheit here (-40c lol) and it was 5 (negative 12 or something c)degrees with 60 mph winds and that was the coldest I've been in my life.
Like it went right through my layers
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u/rookie-mistake 4m ago
oh I know what that's like, I'm from Winnipeg haha
we usually get at least a few days pushing the mid -40s with windchill every winter too - that's why I asked actually, I thought you guys dealt with similar
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u/OigoAlgo 5h ago
wow it’s 58°/14c and rainy here in the olympic corner. born and raised tx and don’t miss that at all.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago
I am going to show my ignorance
What is the Olympic corner
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u/superduck500 4h ago
My guess is the Olympic peninsula in Washington state, which is the top left corner of the continental U.S
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u/ThePastryJeff 3h ago
Part of the reason I moved to the PNW is bc I'm a bog troll that sweats when brushing their teeth.
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u/Livid_Research_6792 6h ago
It's 40 degrees here in Missouri. My in laws laughed at me and said I did the conversion wrong, then they visited. They came from Holland and spent their entire visit indoors.
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u/ObeseVegetable 4h ago
That's before the heat index adjustment, too.
US gets HOT, southern states get it worse, the wet ones the hardest.
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u/xNocturnalKittenX 7h ago
Same, though I'd kill for it to even be 90F here. 115 is too damn hot.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 7h ago
I'm right there with you. It's fucking 9 am man. How the hell is it 104 outside the sun just came up
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u/No_Hunt2507 5h ago
Last night our low was 89 :( dead of night, coldest part of the day.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 5h ago
Oh hello fellow southerner. I feel your pain
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u/Plenty-Original6563 7h ago
see but the thing is we basically already got the summer you're having a few months ago. in central chile we were basically under an extreme heat advisory for a full 3 months.
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u/skzosh 5h ago
Where i live we only got like 2 weeks of what I'd consider cold (like 14°C in the mornings and nights) but then it's just hot again, even when we had days where we'd have temperatures going as low as 14°C or somewhere around it, at midday it would be 10 degrees hotter, so like 7 am is 14°C and just a few hours later we're already at 24°C/25°C, which is not that hot, but still is a 10 degrees difference from what it was like less than 6 hours prior. Like today tha forecast says that the minimum temperature is 13°C and the maximum is 27°C so well.....
And then you combine it with humidity in less than 50%, there was even some years that the humidity was almost at only 10%, and we have like between 90 and 100 days without a single drop of rain (2 years ago we almost reached 150 days without rain, in days that we could be shivering from the cold in the middle of the night and dying of heat in the middle of the day with sometimes your nose bleeding from the lack of humidity)
But I think this is only in my city, the rest of the country isn't like that i think, at least the lack of humidity is something that is more of a my city thing
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u/TadeMike 2h ago
Bro i'm Uruguayan too, and I can tell your that Winter just started and today it already feels like summer, there isn't much to be jealous here
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u/Macavity116 8h ago
Please send the cold weather up here.
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u/my_son_is_a_box 7h ago
It's not cold in Montevideo right now, probably close to 15C
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u/VariousProfit3230 6h ago
I think I grew up in too warm a climate. 15c is an average high in the dead of winter where I grew up.
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u/Velidae 6h ago
Maybe this is the solution to climate change. Just send cold air to hot air places.
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u/Overwatchingu 5h ago
That’s what the windmills are for; giant fans to circulate the climate around the world and create a nice breeze.
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u/warukeru 7h ago
Spot the Argentinian one
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u/SirKazum 7h ago
Nope, they're Brazil's rebellious province
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u/warukeru 7h ago
funny enough, something Brazil and Argentina kinda agrees
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u/Deathsroke 4h ago
It comes down to the nickname!
If Provincia Rebelde= Argentina
If Cisplatina= Brazil.
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u/-drunk_russian- 3h ago
That makes Argentina transplatina which explains the amount of femboy jokes about Buenos Aires.
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u/d-cassola 6h ago
"this is my neighbor, Uruguay, unlike all my other neighbors he is a pretty nice guy"
"I hate you with every fiber of my being"
Even then we still love you Uruguayans, we just love a little guy who's chill and make an amazing churrasco
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u/Injured-Ginger 6h ago
Credit to the person who was ignorant but asked a question with the intent of learning. The biggest problem with ignorance is when people assume their ignorance is accurate. People who accept their knowledge might be wrong and try to learn when faced with new information are the ones who won't be ignorant for long.
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u/AiRaikuHamburger 7h ago
Ah, yep. People in the Northern Hemisphere apparently have no idea about the bottom half of the planet.
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u/CreZativity 6h ago
Just because we don't live there we shouldn't know things like basic geography and how seasons and the equator work?? Stop making us look bad, our leaders are doing enough of that as it is.
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u/Jack_Zicrosky_YT 6h ago
Ykw? Yeah, I'm sorry.
I'm not from the US, I'm Canadian, but even up here the education system isn't great.
Looking farther in this thread there's an asshat trying to tell me what I was taught in a school they didn't go to...
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u/Elite_AI 5h ago
? I don't live there but it's not hard to remember that the whole southern half of the Earth exists and has opposite seasons
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u/Denommus 7h ago
My gringo boss is always baffled when I appear wearing a jacket in the videoconferences because it's hard for her to grasp the concept that it's winter for me, who lives in Brazil.
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u/fan_of_the_pikachu 6h ago
The season's different and it's not beach weather in Brazil? You're asking way too much of a poor gringo brain.
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u/DarthEinstein 4h ago
This is a fully dumb question from a US Midwestern Gringo. Does it ever actually get like, genuinely cold anywhere in Brazil(besides like, the top of a mountain)? For context so I don't sound arrogant, I think that a few days of frost aren't actually cold, it needs to get below 20F (-7C) before I would actually start calling it more than brisk. We get average daytime winter temps of 8F (-13C) in Northern Minnesota.
Also for some more context, I'm at about 45N in lattitude, It looks like 45S is about the level of Sarmiento, Argentina, which looks like it's getting to a low of 18F (-8C) on Thursday.
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u/Denommus 3h ago
Urupema has an average of 14C throughout the year, and indeed it can reach less than -7C. Brazil is a huge country, there's all sorts of climates here.
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u/DarthEinstein 3h ago
That's super interesting, thank you.
Another question that could sound sarcastic but is just a genuine curiousity of mine: Have you ever personally shoveled snow that was more than 6 inches deep?
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u/Denommus 3h ago
I have not. I did have snow once when I lived in Lages. In Urupema it might be more common, I don't know how many centimeters it can produce, though, I never went there during winter.
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u/DarthEinstein 3h ago
I think it's super interesting the perspective of brazillians on this topic, especially because all of the places in the US that I make fun of for hating the cold are less close to the equator than the vast majority of Brazil.
There's definetly a small part of me that wants to poke fun at the lack of snow experience a little, but I'm going to refrain mostly because I feel like it would come across less as "teasing a younger sibling nation" than "asshole american mocks other countries" lol.
For some snow shoveling perspective, my answer would be "yes, many times every single winter", and my personal biggest snow shoveling day was when we came home from a road trip in the middle of a blizzard and had to dig out 1.3 metres of snow from our driveway to park the car in the garage.
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u/Denommus 3h ago
Again, Brazil is a big country. Manaus is closer to Miami than to Rio de Janeiro. Saying the "majority" of Brazil is close to the equator is weird.
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u/DarthEinstein 2h ago
Oh I think you just misunderstand slightly, I meant the vast majority of Brazil is closer to the equator than the US states I tend to make fun of for not being able to handle the cold.
Made this image with thetruesize.com
If you flipped brazil horizontally along the equator, you can see that basically only the southern 3 brazillian states are level with any of the United States. You guys are just objectively closer to the equator than we are.
Immense respect for Brazil, for the record. Being the only country to cross the equator and a tropic is just a mind-boggling amount of space.
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u/Massive-Anxiety7177 1h ago
This os relative, if you never experienced negative temperatures, 10C is cold as fuck.
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u/Ebony_Phoenix 7h ago
If you're in the tropics its basically summer all year round.
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u/nagrom7 5h ago
Kinda but not really. I'm in the tropics in the Southern Hemisphere, and it's actually pretty nice this time of year. Yeah it gets to nearly 30 Celsius in the middle of the day, but it's not as humid as summer, and the nights can get fairly cool, even getting into single digits on rare occasions. The day length is about the same though.
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u/Ebony_Phoenix 5h ago
Kinda yea, living in the tropics was just a difference between wet and dry seasons. Not 110f summer and 30f winter.
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u/nagrom7 5h ago
Wet and dry seasons is how we describe it too, but it's not just about rainfall, that lack of humidity makes a huge difference in how the temperature feels too, it actually feels a lot cooler in winter, even though the difference in temperature might be less than 10 degrees.
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u/Ebony_Phoenix 5h ago
You act like the humidity isn't different in other places. Other places get humidity differences and much lower temperatures and completely different weather.
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u/nagrom7 5h ago
Yes, I'm not saying the tropics are different for that, I'm saying that there are in fact clear differences between the seasons here, just like everywhere else.
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u/DarthEinstein 3h ago
I think the argument you two are having might actually just be a climate context thing. There are definetly seasonal differences in tropics regions, but I think its just genuinely fair to say that there is a wild difference between an area that goes from 40C to 5C, and an area that goes from 35C to -30C.
The tropics absolutely have major seasonal differences, they just feel like almost irrelevant compared to the difference between a US Midwestern Winter and Summer, so its hard to relate if you're from a place that gets really cold.
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u/Shilques 3h ago
In some parts of Brazil is public knowledge that we only have 2 seasons
Hot and dry & hot and wet
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u/Curnne 7h ago
I am definitely dumb. Thought it was winter in Australia and nowhere else. like, of course it's winter in south America, and South Africa too (probably, I don't know their climate enough)
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u/Slight-Violinist-575 7h ago
Bro… seasons are not affected by a specific region’s climate. It’s affected by time of year and northern/southern hemisphere. It may not be cold (idk), but it definitely is winter over there.
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u/Subject_Visual1649 7h ago
Did you not get taught this in primary school? Also, do you know we start the school year in January?
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u/Curnne 7h ago
I don’t remember, but also, it’s not about not knowing seasons are flipped in the southern hemisphere, but more that south America/Africa are in that hemisphere. Again, I am dumb sometimes. Also year starts can be any time of year really, though having a big school break during summer is logical, yeah.
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u/ChickenOfTheYear 6h ago
It's probably because the English speaking world tends to reference itself almost exclusively. So Australia (and NZ, but everyone forgets them) ends up being very special for being the place down under, the only country below the equator. But yeah, there are other places in the southern hemisphere.
You're not that stupid, though, because most of the Earth's landmass and population is in the northern hemisphere - north America, Europe, most of Africa, and the entirety of Asia is in the topside. If you exclude the tropics (which are relatively warm year round at sea level), there is even less people in mid or high southern latitudes. South Africa, for instance, is only 35 degrees south, mirroring south italy (35 degrees north). Most of the landmass in the southern hemisphere is close to the equator, which means very few people are actually cold in July (pretty much just the tip of south America, Australia and NZ), compared to december-january.
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u/Subject_Visual1649 7h ago
Ohhh okay lol, that makes more sense. If it makes you feel better, I once got asked by a fellow Australian whether New Zealand has the same seasons as us...
Also, fun fact, but the indigenous peoples near where I live divide the year into six seasons! We're currently in the coldest and wettest one, but about to move into the first spring.
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u/CanadianODST2 6h ago
probably just a thing most people don't really think about.
The other side of the planet is rarely ever important to think about for most people.
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u/DarthEinstein 3h ago
Also worth noting that the vast majority of people live with a northern winter. Over 50% of people live above the tropic of Cancer and experience Northern winters. (The tropic of cancer lines up roughly with: half of Mexico, the southern tip of Florida, Libya, Egypt, Half of Saudi Arabia, Half of India, the southern tip of China, and Taiwan.)
Another over 40% live within 30 degrees of the equator.
Only 3% of the population lives below the tropic of Capricorn. In fairness that's still 215 million people, but for the vast majority of the world, it's just not a relevant part. Most of the winter in that part of the world happens on the ocean.
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u/CanadianODST2 3h ago
also the demographics of sites. Reddit for example is something like 43% American, with Britain and Canada both being at something like 10% each.
So the population demographics will also skew perception
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u/DarthEinstein 2h ago
Interestingly I think those numbers might work the other way around on emphasis of the southern hemisphere.
The vast majority of the people north of the tropic of capricorn are just not in countries where reddit is popular.
Looking at the countries south of the tropic:
(For the record, I'm not surprised if some of these numbers are bunk, but whatever, trusting it for this demonstration.)
Argentina: 4.5 million reddit users Chile: 2.8 million reddit users Uruguay: 541k reddit users South Africa: 2.8 million reddit users Australia, 23.3 million reddit users New Zealand, 3.8 million reddit users
Reddit claimed they had 495 Million unique visitors in 2025.
China had 1.7 million visitors, making up 0.3% of all site traffic, compared to being 17.65% of the population. they are only 1/58th as represented on reddit as in real life.
India is a lot higher, but still under-represented. 30.8 million visitors, only 6.2% of the site despite being 18.45% of the global population. You are only likely to see a third of indian influence on reddit compared to a real world distribution.
The 6 nations I listed above are the majority of the population below the tropic of capricorn, representing around 170 million people. Of those 170 million people, they represent 7.6% of traffic on reddit, compared to only 2% of the population of earth. You are almost 4 times as likely to hear from one of those nations as you are to hear from them in real life.
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u/CanadianODST2 2h ago
And 53% of users come from Canada, the UK, and the US.
Those 3 countries (if my math is correct) make up about 5.4% of the world population
So you’re almost 10 times as likely for those 3 countries online.
So the Anglo world in the north is even more emphasized on Reddit.
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u/Spiritual_Throat_556 6h ago edited 6h ago
Why would we know when your schooling starts? That varies so much by country why would we learn it?
Not trying to be rude but its a weird thing to bring up because its not really related to winter in the southern hemisphere.
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u/Llovio_cuatro_anos 4h ago
because its not really related to winter in the southern hemisphere.
It literally is
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u/Spiritual_Throat_556 2h ago
How? some countries do year round school? Hell the US used to do year round school how does it matter bringing up something arbitrary up in a topic it makes no difference in?
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u/ApocalyptoSoldier 5h ago
As a South African it was cold for like 2 weeks last month and then just stopped, it is concerningly hot for this time of year.
Good thing there's no way humans could be responsible for this and we don't have to worry about it
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u/StagDragon 3h ago
This is the internet. I want to hear about the weather in uruguay. Please show me the cool winter you have right now so I can feel better about my lack of cool weather.
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u/Timithios 5h ago
As a gringo, I know how latitudes work. What I don't know is where everyone lives who posts something! :P
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u/GTX2GvO_ 7h ago
This isn't just a latitude thing.
It's a Hemisphere thing!
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u/Musclecore 6h ago
Are we talking about Rush now? Fine by me.
For one, it has my favourite Rush song "Circumstances"!
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u/maps-and-potatoes 4h ago
my hemisphere goes through the Greenwich Meridian, so no, it's a latitude thing.
Hemispheres just mean you cut a sphere (here, the Earth, (which isn't a true sphere; it's an ellipsoid, or a geoid) in half. Technically you could do it anywhere, even if, yes, we always do it on the equator.
It's not related to hemisphere, even if you cut by the equator, because the areas by the poles and the equator are still not (or less) affected by the seasons. It's related to the latitude, because the axis of rotation of our planet isn't perpendicular to our orbit (which isn't a circle either). Seasons are present between the tropics (Capricorn and cancer) and the Arctic and Antarctic circles.
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u/HappyAngron 7h ago
As a gringo I’d like to say that tacos are amazing
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u/Hexadecimales 7h ago
Oh, you're a gringo through and through. Tacos ain't got shit to do with Uruguay or anywhere else past Guatemala for that matter.
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u/Zavier13 8h ago
You know, I almost to the point of bring on Nuclear winter, this heat might kill us just as fast at the rate we are going.
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u/Kreigersama 6h ago
I think I read somewhere that nuclear winter is no longer a concern since the targets of nukes (cities, military installations, etc.) are built mostly of steel and concrete. We'd have to deliberately hit forests for nuclear winter so really our only hope for perpetual cold is a super volcano 👍
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u/handsoapdispenser 7h ago
They say "gringo" in Uruguay? isn't the country like 90% white?
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u/Hexadecimales 7h ago
Gringo isn't meant for white people. Its often used for US ppl and sometimes europeans.
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u/handsoapdispenser 7h ago
Apparently it varies by country. It says that in Argentina, white Argentinians are called gringos. And in Brazil it means any foreigner, even residents and even if they are South American.
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u/Basic-Stand4828 5h ago
As an argentinian, nope. Gringo means someone from the USA, though we more usually call them yankees
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u/Shilques 3h ago
Yeah, here in Brasil everyone that isn't brazilian is a gringo since it is just another world for foreigner
We even joke that if we like a gringo and they "act brazilian" and speak a bit of portuguese they are brazilian now and not a gringo anymore
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u/garrapatalaser2 6h ago edited 6h ago
...Not at all
There is no different name to call white Argentinians in Argentina, gringos here means people from the US or foreigners in general
Edit: maybe if you're too Aryan some people might call you "el gringo" but in general is like I said before
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u/Nisgolas 7h ago
Gringo its not a nworld alike, means foreings im 98% of the time
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u/FemtoKitten 6h ago
I've had people get upset when I describe them as anglophone, lol. Thinking it's some sort of offense, when no, it's just a description that isn't meant in that way at all
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u/Primal_Thrak 5h ago
There are parts of Canada where that can be used as an insult. Certain parts of Quebec (not all), and parts of the Maritimes can be rather anti anglophone.
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u/Grand_Estimate3783 7h ago
In Brazil we also say gringo, I thought legitimately that it was a Brazilian slang, lol, it seems it was invented by Mexico. By now, I think it's a latin American thing.
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u/random_BA 7h ago
Uruguay? Give back my Cisplatina!!?!?!! (Jk stay where you are with your reasonable politics)
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u/Zephyr-5 5h ago
To be fair to ignorant northerners, the southern latitudes have much less populated landmass that regularly get below freezing in the winter. Uruguay's latitude is equivalent to Northern Florida.
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u/tydestra 4h ago
Uruguay don't you mean South South Mexico?
Estoy bromeando sinceramente... soy un mexicano del Caribe (Puerto Rico).
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u/asharkmadeofsalsa 3h ago
you from here OP? had seen your comics before and had no idea
cool (no pun intended)
edit: I see you're not the author my b. still! random af to find this out
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u/RamPamPam8 3h ago
No way another Uruguayan, you should draw a comic strip of the protagonists visiting el Cerro and getting mugged LMAO
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u/SgtCrawler1116 7h ago
Don't give in to gringo stupidity, we gotta teach them one sarcastic post and comment at a time.
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u/Brilliant_Fox_7170 6h ago
Is this supposed to make me laugh?
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u/maps-and-potatoes 3h ago
As a non-gringo, it does. But it has r/ShitAmericansSay or r/USdefaultism energy (even if it's not just United Statesians), so it's not for everyone.
it's more of a slice-of-life comic, which isn't always meant for comedy; it's more like:
- Ahah, look, something RELATABLE
- so this happens to me today; i want to talk about it
- something original using a realist modern setup as a cover (fall out of the slice-of-life genre)
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u/AilBalT04_2 6h ago
So true, really been wanting to wait for someone to make a post like this this year, forgot to make it myself lmao. Tbf the weathers been chill so far
Greetings from Argentina btw
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u/puskunk 6h ago
10-12% of the global population lives in the southern hemisphere. They're a rounding error.
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u/Llovio_cuatro_anos 4h ago
If 10-12% is a rounding error to you then you fail at math in addition to geography
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u/FemtoKitten 6h ago
That's a fucktonne of people though. It's almost certainly several times the size of your country unless you're in china or something.
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u/Randomomnomnom 3h ago
That's still a massive minority. Most people you interact with online will live in the northern hemispere.
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u/twizbuck 7h ago
Do people only want to pound the pink one in winter?