The American mind cannot even comprehend a border between 3 countries being so open.
Geography is neat
Submitted 2 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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paddirn@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hey we’ve got Four Corners!
nosey33@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Isn’t that between 4 states though? Rather than 4 countries lol still super cool though
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Which is on an indian reservation, and requires an entrance fee to go look at it.
Andonyx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah honestly. I know we (USA), do any number of things In a screwed up way, but it’s also what I’m used to. There’s NO border control anywhere around there? Seems weird to me.
AquaTofana@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When I was in Germany in 2022, I traveled freely around Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Czechia. I only got asked for my Passport in Switzerland, and then at the airports. Otherwise, no, you’d just be driving or on a train and the signs would change to French suddenly.
I loved it. I wish we fucking would relax our shit in the US. It was hella neat.
StThicket@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Do you have border control between states? It’s basically the same thing with schengen. No control between countries on the “inside”, but rigorous control to get in.
BakedGoods@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Why would there be? All three countries are in the Schengen area.
gitamar@feddit.de 2 weeks ago
There are 48 in Europe of those tripoints, seven of them with Germany.
Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The one with Belgium and the Netherlands has a park around it with a large maze, a watchtower and playgrounds.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I just noticed the map at the end is missing the tripoint Italy-Slovenia-Austria
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
three nations did not want to lose their soverign rights to equal thirds of this lake. what is in the lake.
Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 2 weeks ago
Water, probably.
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
I’d say maybe some kind of life forms too
Rolando@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They should put some strange women distributing swords, as a basis for their system of government.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
The lake is actually ~99% on Norwegian territory, it’s just a tiny edge on the end that’s given to Sweden and Finland. We once tried to give Finland a mountain peak though (for their 100th anniversary of independence from Russia), but the constitution states the kingdom is indivisible so the legal work was deemed too much. It would have been their highest peak if it went through.
Turun@feddit.de 2 weeks ago
Nothing is out there! All there is is a lake and birds and fish. And a big ass cement block. And a wooden walkway. But there’s nothing else there. It’s a complete void. The environment is perfectly safe!
hikikoma@ani.social 2 weeks ago
And the front that fell off.
ladicius@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And mosquitos, supposedly.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Just made for a good border-point, really.
This is all imagined though as I refuse to recognize the sovereignty of Finland and Norway - long live the Great Swedish Empire
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
A bit of mud and a few rocks.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Stop censoring screenshots.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Take it up with ooooop.jpg
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is what is possible when humans put aside our differences and work together!
Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Shout out to the four corners in the Navajo nation. The world’s most geographicaly exciting empty field!
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Humans are weird. (And delightful!)
Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 2 weeks ago
If you slip, fall and hit your head and loose conciousness during that, in a way such that you are lying exactly on the border between two or three nations, to which hospital will you be brought? And how are insurances going to deal with this?
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Seems like a non-issue to me. You’ll go to whichever hospital is closest. If you’re resident in one of the countries you’ll be in EU/EEA and get the usual healthcare for residents of whichever country the hospital is in, if you’re non-EU it’ll depend on what travel insurance you have.
wrinkletip@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
No worries, any of these three countries will take you without quibbling over who pays what.
Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 2 weeks ago
Isn’t it supposed to be a pile of rocks there? (Treriksröset) Or is it this block that is that’s named Treriksröset? But a “röse” is supposed to be a like of rocks?
Barabas@hexbear.net 2 weeks ago
Cement is kind of a big pile of rocks if you think about it. And yes, that is Treriksröset.
chellomere@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, this is how Treriksröset looks nowadays, someone decided to put a big-ass clump of concrete there.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It would be awesome if it was a big monument to peace and cooperation
Jourei@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
From which side can you access it? Which nation owns the corner?
kureta@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
exact point is probably empty. so much of matter is just empty space.
4am@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Dang this meme is moldy
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Damnit. Wish I had known when I drove from Norway into Finland for lunch with a beer, then returned.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Did they remove ass from the screenshot lmao
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Oh no swearing on the internet we must censor .
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It never made any sense to me that ass is a swear word. It means either a body part or a donkey, neither of which are particularly offensive unless the donkey is performing conservative stand-up comedy.
iiGxC@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Don’t worry I’ll add it back when I send it to my meme chats
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
A swear word? On the internet?! Scandalous!
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
Blink-182 said it best;
“Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat”
Moving words to be sure
FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Clbuttic.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
‘content’