The American mind cannot even comprehend a border between 3 countries being so open.
Geography is neat
Submitted 1 year ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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paddirn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hey we’ve got Four Corners!
nosey33@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Isn’t that between 4 states though? Rather than 4 countries lol still super cool though
SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Which is on an indian reservation, and requires an entrance fee to go look at it.
Andonyx@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Why would there be? All three countries are in the Schengen area.
gitamar@feddit.de 1 year ago
There are 48 in Europe of those tripoints, seven of them with Germany.
Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
I just noticed the map at the end is missing the tripoint Italy-Slovenia-Austria
sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year 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 1 year ago
Water, probably.
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
I’d say maybe some kind of life forms too
Rolando@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They should put some strange women distributing swords, as a basis for their system of government.
UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
And the front that fell off.
ladicius@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And mosquitos, supposedly.
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 1 year 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 1 year ago
A bit of mud and a few rocks.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Stop censoring screenshots.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 year ago
Take it up with ooooop.jpg
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
do your duty and add it back
NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 year ago
This is what is possible when humans put aside our differences and work together!
Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 1 year ago
Shout out to the four corners in the Navajo nation. The world’s most geographicaly exciting empty field!
MNByChoice@midwest.social 1 year ago
Humans are weird. (And delightful!)
Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 1 year 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 1 year 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
eh it’s not like they’re going to change what care they give you just because you don’t have insurance, it’ll just affect what happens afterwards.
wrinkletip@feddit.nl 1 year ago
No worries, any of these three countries will take you without quibbling over who pays what.
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 year 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 1 year ago
Cement is kind of a big pile of rocks if you think about it. And yes, that is Treriksröset.
chellomere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes, this is how Treriksröset looks nowadays, someone decided to put a big-ass clump of concrete there.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would be awesome if it was a big monument to peace and cooperation
Jourei@lemm.ee 1 year ago
From which side can you access it? Which nation owns the corner?
kureta@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
exact point is probably empty. so much of matter is just empty space.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
pretty sure it’s co-owned, and it seems to be accessed from the finnish side because that’s where the solid ground is, though you have to pass through the swedish or norwegian border to get there.
Jourei@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So in essence: Finland’s corner!
4am@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Dang this meme is moldy
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damnit. Wish I had known when I drove from Norway into Finland for lunch with a beer, then returned.
HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Did they remove ass from the screenshot lmao
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Oh no swearing on the internet we must censor .
Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Don’t worry I’ll add it back when I send it to my meme chats
Snowpix@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
A swear word? On the internet?! Scandalous!
AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Blink-182 said it best;
“Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat”
Moving words to be sure
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
ratshit batshit dirty old twat
69 assholes tied in a knot
hooray lizardshit, FUCK
FlightyPenguin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Clbuttic.
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
‘content’