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I just realized I've never ever been outside of this rather small rectangle
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subarctictundra lemmy.world subarctictundra@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-23
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I need to save up and try going somewhere completely different

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TrackenDaKracken lemmy.world TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-09-29
#2 · Quote Reply

You're very fortunate to have traveled that "small" rectangle.

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Atropos lemmy.world Atropos@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-13
#3 · Quote Reply

I've never been inside that rectangle!

By our powers combined.....

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WolvenSpectre lemmy.ca WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2024-08-26
#4 · Quote Reply

Yeah... "Small"

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I Cast Fist programming.dev ICastFist@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-22
#5 · Quote Reply

Where's banana for scale?

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subarctictundra lemmy.world subarctictundra@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-23
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply

Where's banana for scale?

Can you not see it?

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subarctictundra lemmy.world subarctictundra@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-23
#7 · (edited) Quote Reply

You're very fortunate to have traveled that "small" rectangle.

That's true. I certainly feel fortunate that my life exists within it. It's more of me noticing how limited (globally) my thinking/perspectives are.

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I Cast Fist programming.dev ICastFist@programming.dev
Joined: 2023-06-22
#8 · Quote Reply

Can you not see it?

No, can you put a red circle around?

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hitmyspot aussie.zone hitmyspot@aussie.zone
Joined: 2023-07-03
#9 · Quote Reply

Travel is enlightening. When you unlock more if the map, you'll find out the orientation is different, too!

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NuanceDemon lemmy.dbzer0.com NuanceDemon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2026-08-31
#10 · Quote Reply

Seeing europe in this orientation really threw me for a moment.

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Whirling_Cloudburst lemmy.world Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-06
#11 · (edited) Quote Reply

Its really all relative. The Earth is orbiting around the Sun at about 30km per sec. Furthermore, the Solar System is rotating around the Milkyway at about 800000 km per hour. Not to mention that the whole thing is speeding toward the Andromeda Galaxy too. In short, you have never stepped in the same place twice unless you consider the possibility that we are living in a massive time loop paradox.

Enjoy your future vacation.

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HiddenLayer555 lemmy.ml HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2024-09-13
#12 · (edited) Quote Reply

I'd make a math joke about how technically you've only been to an infinitely small subset of that rectangle because your movement is 1D on a 2D plane but I don't know enough math to make it funny.

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RockBottom feddit.org RockBottom@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-15
#13 · Quote Reply

That's ok. It doesn't matter.

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khannie lemmy.world khannie@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-21
#14 · Quote Reply

Ryanair do flights to Morocco these days for what it's worth. I was in Casablanca years back and wasn't a big fan but they do other cities in Morocco too which I'm looking at myself as I have a voucher.

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TheLeadenSea sh.itjust.works TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2025-06-04
#15 · Quote Reply

I know someone who's never been outside of south England

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majster lemmy.zip majster@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-26
#16 · Quote Reply

Cyprus, Helsinki and Tenerife via RyanAir would be most cost effective to make it quite large and you stay within Schengen which is nice.

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Gonzako lemmy.world Gonzako@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-08-17
#17 · Quote Reply

Come to Brazil!

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BoosBeau lemmy.world BoosBeau@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-07-18
#18 · Quote Reply

No worries, almost all of us have never been outside this rather small circle either:

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Tudsamfa lemmy.world Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
Joined: 2024-05-08
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I'd make a math joke about how technically you've only been to an infinitely small subset of that rectangle because your movement is 1D on a 2D plane but I don't know enough math to make it funny.

Since we live on a globe, all those angles are bigger than 90°, making it only a quadrilateral.

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Peppycito sh.itjust.works Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-07-03
#20 · Quote Reply

That's ok. It doesn't matter.

"you don't need to look over the fence to know it's a dog barking"

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RockBottom feddit.org RockBottom@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-15
#21 · Quote Reply

"you don't need to look over the fence to know it's a dog barking"

Yeah, information is as easy to get as ever. Travel is for bragging, mostly.

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deathmetaldawgy lemmy.ml deathmetaldawgy@lemmy.ml
Joined: 2026-03-25
#22 · Quote Reply

Come to Brazil!

Would love to travel to South America in general, Mexico first tho. Seems so big that it’s hard to think of where to start

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Tattorack lemmy.world Tattorack@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-10-28
#23 · Quote Reply

My rectangle is bigger than yours.

Dann right, it's bigger than yours.

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Spice Hoarder lemmy.zip spicehoarder@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-29
#24 · Quote Reply

I know someone who's never been outside of south England

I also know your mom

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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#25 · Quote Reply

Yeah, information is as easy to get as ever. Travel is for bragging, mostly.

This is the take of someone who really needs to see more of the world

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RockBottom feddit.org RockBottom@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-15
#26 · Quote Reply

This is the take of someone who really needs to see more of the world

By jet? Or by internet?

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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#27 · Quote Reply

By jet? Or by internet?

Plane train or automobile, Volkswalken or Shoebaru, really anything besides blind trust in what filters through your screen. Only thing you can see online is the internet

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Fleur_ aussie.zone Fleur_@aussie.zone
Joined: 2025-04-23
#28 · Quote Reply

Luckily you can draw the rectangle as big as you want and still say "I've never been outside of this rectangle"

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Meatwagon piefed.blahaj.zone Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2026-08-21
#29 · Quote Reply

Your rectangle is much bigger than my rectangle.

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RockBottom feddit.org RockBottom@feddit.org
Joined: 2025-03-15
#30 · Quote Reply

Plane train or automobile, Volkswalken or Shoebaru, really anything besides blind trust in what filters through your screen. Only thing you can see online is the internet

You are aware that I am reading your thoughts about tourism on my screen, right?
Could you show me some of your travel photos so I don't take the same?

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moonshadow slrpnk.net moonshadow@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-11-12
#31 · Quote Reply

You are aware that I am reading your thoughts about tourism on my screen, right? Could you show me some of your travel photos so I don't take the same?

Every time I try to package an experience for transmission it just turns into content, might be better if you went outside for yourself

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