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Geography is neat (mander.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 124 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Did they remove ass from the screenshot lmao

[–] [email protected] 70 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Oh no swearing on the internet we must censor .

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Aren't most swear words have a normal meaning just swearified? Like: poo - shit

[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 months ago

Don't worry I'll add it back when I send it to my meme chats

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

A swear word? On the internet?! Scandalous!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Blink-182 said it best;

"Shit piss fuck cunt cocksucker motherfucker tits fart turd and twat"

Moving words to be sure

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Clbuttic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

'content'

[–] [email protected] 95 points 4 months ago (5 children)

The American mind cannot even comprehend a border between 3 countries being so open.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Hey we've got Four Corners!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Isn't that between 4 states though? Rather than 4 countries lol still super cool though

[–] [email protected] 33 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry I'm sure they'll come up with tight immigration between states eventually

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Just speed run getting a felony, grab a kid and run around 4 corners to get the kidnapping over state lines achievement.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Have you seen the difference in laws between US states!?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Which is on an indian reservation, and requires an entrance fee to go look at it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Is that new? I definitely didn't pay to go to it- a little over 10 years ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

I went through there last summer. It was a total tourist trap.

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 4 months ago (2 children)

There are 48 in Europe of those tripoints, seven of them with Germany.

https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreil%C3%A4nderecke_Europas

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

The one with Belgium and the Netherlands has a park around it with a large maze, a watchtower and playgrounds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I just noticed the map at the end is missing the tripoint Italy-Slovenia-Austria

[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

three nations did not want to lose their soverign rights to equal thirds of this small lake. what is in the lake.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Water, probably.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd say maybe some kind of life forms too

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

They should put some strange women distributing swords, as a basis for their system of government.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Nothing is out there! All there is is a lake and birds and fish. ... And a wooden walkway. ... And a big ass cement block. But there's nothing else there. It's a complete void. The environment is perfectly safe!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And mosquitos, supposedly. A lot of mosquitos.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months 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

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Stop censoring screenshots.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Take it up with ooooop.jpg

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Country_Cairn

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

This is what is possible when humans put aside our differences and work together!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Shout out to the four corners in the Navajo nation. The world's most geographicaly exciting empty field!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Humans are weird. (And delightful!)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

No worries, any of these three countries will take you without quibbling over who pays what.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

They really did!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago

Cement is kind of a big pile of rocks if you think about it. And yes, that is Treriksröset.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (3 children)

From which side can you access it? Which nation owns the corner?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

exact point is probably empty. so much of matter is just empty space.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It would be awesome if it was a big monument to peace and cooperation

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