Borders are merely representations of governance

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AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (4 replies)
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Servais@dormi.zone · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Thanks!

AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
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barsoap@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Have you any idea about the amount of paperwork necessary in Germany to pave a path that's going through a forest or, gods forbid, natural reserve, and that's before you need a study looking at the impact paving will have on the local population of red-footed sparkle toads. Ain't no bureaucrat doing that willingly.

Best you can hope for is a fresh gravel resurfacing, which TBH is plenty for a foot/bikepath. Foresters certainly won't complain their stuff can drive off-road, also, they're usually bureaucrats themselves and would be stuck with the paperwork.

AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Ok, so there's a certain irony seeing this directly above and posted 1h after an identical post by someone else, same meme, same title - seeing it shortly after reading your post about duplicates on Reddit.

Blaze@reddthat.com · 9 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It is literally crossposted:

I guess you are using a mobile app that doesn't show crossposts?

milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I... guess it doesn't. I'm on Jerboa. I thought it did mark crossposts - I did look for this being a crosspost before I commented - but apparently not!

Blaze@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 2y

It might allow to do them but not display them? In any case, good to know!

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 2y (7 replies)

Turns out the Netherlands neighbour didn’t want to be embarrassed so it extended the same good quality road 100km into its own border. Then OP took a picture of where it ended for this meme

Donut@leminal.space · 16 pts · 2y

Lol that sounds like a coping mechanism. This picture is at the border, you can check for yourself: 51.245554,4.036692

Link to Google Maps for the lazy: https://maps.app.goo.gl/i8Q1XLg3bjmn3P3KA

Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Why would you lie about something like this?

sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

They're Belgian.

source: trust me bro

Blaze@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Seems surprising to lie about this on a small community like Lemmy. Maybe it's an urban myth that keep being spread.

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

I made it up because I thought it would be funny

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 2y

Because it’s funny. The thought of going to all that trouble to not be one upped by your richer neighbour and then for someone to undo it all by taking a picture where they stopped is amusing. No matter how far they built the road someone could take the picture where it stopped and call them shit

Blaze@reddthat.com · -1 pts · 2y

Interesting, thanks for sharing!

Edit: seems like OP wasn't correct