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[-] [email protected] 110 points 2 weeks ago

Did they remove ass from the screenshot lmao

[-] [email protected] 64 points 2 weeks ago

Oh no swearing on the internet we must censor .

[-] Holyhandgrenade 26 points 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.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 28 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

A swear word? On the internet?! Scandalous!

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Blink-182 said it best;

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

Moving words to be sure

[-] paddirn 93 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] NewNewAccount 22 points 2 weeks ago

Hey we've got Four Corners!

[-] nosey33 22 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Zehzin 32 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] einlander 12 points 2 weeks 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] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] NewNewAccount 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Wild_Mastic 5 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] SmoothLiquidation 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] SmoothLiquidation 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Andonyx 1 points 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 16 points 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.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 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.

[-] [email protected] 69 points 2 weeks 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 11 points 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 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 38 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago
[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'd say maybe some kind of life forms too

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And some rocks

[-] Rolando 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

A moist bint lobbing scimitars at people in the middle of jänkhä? Sign me up.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

And mosquitos, supposedly. A lot of mosquitos.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

And the front that fell off.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 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

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

A bit of mud and a few rocks.

[-] Hasherm0n 22 points 2 weeks ago
[-] NickwithaC 21 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Humans are weird. (And delightful!)

[-] Somethingcheezie 10 points 2 weeks ago

They really did!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 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?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 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.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 4 points 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?

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[-] Semi_Hemi_Demigod 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

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