Solarpunk Travel

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Community for those focused on sustainable travel. Our society's current levels of energy intensive and frequent travel are not compatible with life on a finite planet. We advocate for long-term slow travel to see the world, and low energy local travel to deeply experience your community. Green washing free zone.

related to sustainable travel:

[email protected] ← open to all train chatter (but note the instance is centered on the midwest USA)
[email protected] ← UK Rail and Trains
[email protected] ← UK public transport

related to travel generally:

[email protected] ← general travel
[email protected] ← general travel (this whole instance devoted to travel but note there is an instance-wide no politics rule there)
[email protected] ← Europe focus

The communities listed above are decentralized. Centralized instances are omitted as they go against the fedi purpose and it’s better to cultivate digital rights in the free world. That means instances that have a disproportionately large population or are centralized on Cloudflare are not listed.

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Corpse Flowers are the biggest flowers in the world, and blooms for one day every four years. Tonight I saw one. (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I had to wait in line 2 hrs to get into the Conservatory of Flowers in San Francisco, but we saw it. The flower is named after its odor, which resembles rotting meat to entice scavenger insects into pollinating it. It smells truly foul. 8/10 experience, highly recommend.

Also, how do i make Alt text for an image post?

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[–] niktemadur 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So I'm guessing tonight you also SMELLED one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah.

It doesn't smell identical to rotting meat, but it certainly smells like rotting something.

It's truly foul. You smell it and think, "So I guess this is what decaying carrion smells like to bugs". It's so putrid. The line wended through the conservatory, and we started smelling it rooms away.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Its Latin name is "Amorphophallus titan".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Also, that name sounds like a self given nickname.

"Hi, I'm Doug. But my friends all call me Megachad Fucklord."

"No we don't, Doug."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Do you think that's because they named it before they saw it bloom? It's a great name, but omits the signature feature of the plant. Probably because it's special move is so rare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is that the plant that was on Denis the menace?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Oh man, it's probably not, but I had the exact same thought.