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[-] HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone 126 points 6 months ago

Did they remove ass from the screenshot lmao

[-] Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 70 points 6 months ago

Oh no swearing on the internet we must censor .

[-] Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months 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.

[-] UnRelatedBurner@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago

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

[-] iiGxC@slrpnk.net 32 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Snowpix@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 months ago

A swear word? On the internet?! Scandalous!

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 15 points 6 months ago

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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[-] paddirn@lemmy.world 96 points 6 months ago

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

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Hey we've got Four Corners!

[-] nosey33@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 33 points 6 months ago

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

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 6 months ago

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

[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Yeah, but relatively large states with a combined population of nearly 20m.

[-] Wild_Mastic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

It's the Google map travel distance thing all over again

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[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

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

[-] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

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

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[-] gitamar@feddit.de 76 points 6 months ago

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

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

[-] Sir_Fridge@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months 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 8 points 6 months ago

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

[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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

[-] Sharkwellington@lemmy.one 60 points 6 months ago
[-] Legend@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 6 months ago

I'd say maybe some kind of life forms too

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[-] UndercoverUlrikHD@programming.dev 18 points 6 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.

[-] Turun@feddit.de 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

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!

[-] ladicius@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And mosquitos, supposedly. A lot of mosquitos.

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[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 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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[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 31 points 6 months ago

Stop censoring screenshots.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 8 points 6 months ago

Take it up with ooooop.jpg

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[-] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago
[-] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Pavlichenko_Fan_Club@hexbear.net 17 points 6 months ago

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

[-] MNByChoice@midwest.social 14 points 6 months ago

Humans are weird. (And delightful!)

[-] Somethingcheezie@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

They really did!

[-] Zacryon@lemmy.wtf 11 points 6 months 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 18 points 6 months 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.

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[-] wrinkletip@feddit.nl 15 points 6 months ago

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

[-] Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 5 points 6 months 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 11 points 6 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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[-] Jourei@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

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

[-] kureta@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

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

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