💗 Schengen
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Schengen “Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
Sometimes in mid 1980s as teenager I was sking in Lapland. We made a trip to where borders of Finland, Sweden and Norway meet. I decided to make quick Nordics tour and clocked 12 seconds to go around the border marker with skis.
It was very different as the place where I had spent most of my summers was close to the border with Soviet Union. Heavily guarded hostile border then and now.
#borders
@fj
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Belgium has plenty crazy "borders" in the east, too - exclaves and enclaves with Germany - 1st & 2nd WorldWar related...
On the pic you can run/walk Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands also within a second.
It's a nice place to visit and btw. the highest point of continental Netherland (322m above sea level) - 30km south is Belgiums highest point with 694m
How about a carousel instead of or around that stone pillar?
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@fj @herbert_tiemens If we estimate the length of the swing at 2.5 meters, then the period of the swing is 3.17 seconds, so the back-and-forth is 18.9 times per minute.
Did you try it, or did you calculate it?
@mrtnsnp It's a quote from the article
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@benroyce @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
Me neither but this map of it has stayed with me https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114437610906205685
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@ticho @Provincial @fj talking about OpenStreetMap, someone has already mapped it
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“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj What a poetic installation!
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Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj This is how borders should look like!
That this exists makes me deeply happy! :'3 -
@fj Imagine how it used to be!
“Passport please”
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@fj I do hope that anyone who uses the swing isn't going to need to mention every visit to a foreign country on something like the US immigration form.
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@fj
Does anyone know if swing safety regulations are harmonised in the Benelux countries?@alterelefant @fj if not this incident will probably lead to the EU creating a new commissioner for harmonising safty regulations of border swings
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@urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
to be honest with you what i'm really saying is i resent the authoritarian - libertarian axis
1. libertarianism (in the usa) is not social libertarianism it's right wing economic libertarianism. useful fools for plutocrats since less economic control means the rich win
2. i don't believe in an authoritarian left. yes it's a thing but i see only fascists who haven't fully worked out the contradictions in their thinking. tankies suck
Eysenck used the terms 'tenderminded' and 'toughminded' in place of libertarian/authoritarian if that helps?
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How about a carousel instead of or around that stone pillar?
@project1enigma @CannaParts @stf @fj Exactly what I though. What do you think, can we create a movement that will install carousels on each Schengen Area three countries meeting point? Could use a slogan like "freedom all around"
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@ReggieHere @benroyce @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj wait just a few more years and their funding from Moscow will have dried up.
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Schengen
“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj In 2020 I just made a small cross country tour to the Czech-German-Austrian Border.
I know the times in the past when it was impossible to go spontaneously to Czechslovakia (CSSR).
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@ReggieHere @benroyce @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj wait just a few more years and their funding from Moscow will have dried up.
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@urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
to be honest with you what i'm really saying is i resent the authoritarian - libertarian axis
1. libertarianism (in the usa) is not social libertarianism it's right wing economic libertarianism. useful fools for plutocrats since less economic control means the rich win
2. i don't believe in an authoritarian left. yes it's a thing but i see only fascists who haven't fully worked out the contradictions in their thinking. tankies suck
@benroyce @urlyman @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
We have local, Welsh and Scottish elections here on May 7. I got a leaflet from the Independent Socialist candidate for my Scottish constituency. It's full of the usual things you might expect, but clearly also pro-Russian.
Ukraine can't win and 'the Russian threat isn't credible' (in bold). We should 'negotiate a non-aggression pact with Russia. Buy cheap Russian energy.'
Definitely tankie. I'm voting SNP1, Green2.
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@benroyce @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
Me neither but this map of it has stayed with me https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114437610906205685
Wow.
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@project1enigma @CannaParts @stf @fj Exactly what I though. What do you think, can we create a movement that will install carousels on each Schengen Area three countries meeting point? Could use a slogan like "freedom all around"
@project1enigma @CannaParts @stf @fj Just tried to look some up, seems a lot of them are either on a mountain peak or in a body of water...
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“Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the towns of Baarle-Hertog-Nassau, you can fly from the Netherlands into Belgium and back.”
Borders are a construct, but this swing isn't
Have you ever wanted to fly across a border more than 40 times in one minute? No? As of last month, you can do it anyway: By hopping on a swing in the
The European Correspondent (europeancorrespondent.com)
@fj
Imagine this with border check: a child constantly showing its passport and two officers consrantly watching.Funny thought and a little bit creepy.
