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If you're sitting on a boat in Lake Constance, are you in three countries at once? Or just in one? Does it even matter? Because strangely, it turns out there are parts of the world where no-one really minds when international borders are not just ignored, but are completely undefined.
SOURCES:
Smith, B. (2001). Fiat Objects. Topoi, 20(2), pp.131-148.
http://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/fiatobjects.pdf Khan, D. (2004). Die deutschen Staatsgrenzen. 1st ed. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
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If you're wondering why my coat looks ridiculous, it's because there was about a 30mph wind blowing off the lake, and it was either freeze to death or accept a certain loss of dignity...
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Mordhaussays...*promote
siftbotsays...Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Monday, January 2nd, 2017 1:48pm PST - promote requested by Mordhaus.
Mordhaussays...*water *talks
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Paybacksays...I was going to upvote, then I thought, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
00Scud00says...From now on, whenever we come across undefined territories on a map they can just print this on the space ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. It would be awesome.
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