💗 Schengen
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The US and the UK are alike in suffering vast consequences for this far right upwelling of stupidity. We both have a lot of fixing to do. I'm pretty sure the UK will slowly rejoin the EU piecemeal
Like this:
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/17/uk/britain-erasmus-european-union-student-intl
All the ignorance and lies but what makes sense still and always will make sense and never goes away. Time and clearer minds will do their thing
@benroyce They've slashed international student placements here (under our supposedly Liberal gov) which has caused one of our local community colleges here in Manitoba to outright close, with a statement that it's because of losing the international students.
Smooth move, ex-lax. #FuckCarney
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@fj When I was fitter I managed to cartwheel across one of the borders at Vaalserberg. I can't remember which border, because I was full of Dutch bier at the time
@RupertReynolds @fj if it was Dutch beer, then you did it wrong.
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@RupertReynolds @fj if it was Dutch beer, then you did it wrong.
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@electropict @urlyman @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
i don't really like this graph. there's other dimensions of ideology. but what use is a 16 dimensional graph? and even then "you're forgetting the ideological divides of a,b,c,d,e,f..." so then you have a 738 dimensional graph. and even then...
left and right is fine
because that's the usual political axis across which people think. it's extremely rough, but we can't capture ideology this way so the approximation of 1 dimension is fine
@benroyce @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
All models are wrong but some are useful. And this one usefully shows a significant distance between where people place themselves and the positions taken by the representatives they vote for. Irrespective of values, that’s concerning
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@benroyce @electropict @ReggieHere @vfrmedia @metaphil @fj
All models are wrong but some are useful. And this one usefully shows a significant distance between where people place themselves and the positions taken by the representatives they vote for. Irrespective of values, that’s concerning
@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
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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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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 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”
“Passport please”
“Passport please”
“Passport please”
“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).
