This is why setting borders based on rivers is fundamentally flawed.
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I mean, you say that now, but if someone stood on the other side of the river and shot arrows at you, would you really disagree with them?
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It’s all arbitrary anyway…
Why? Apart from such cases being rare, everyone gets a half island
Because they change and move over time. This river definitely didn’t start out like this and it almost certainly will look very different in just a few years’ time.
Just recently my country exchanged land with a neighbouring country to adjust for the changes of water, each giving and gaining the same amount of land. When water marks the border it’s much easier to know when you’re crossing it.
Edit: looked it up: in march we (Austria) traded 239 m² with Liechtenstein
Good point, that’s a cool solution too!
I know they’re rich, but they’re so small, you should have just let them keep it.
The alternative is pretty fucking stupid too. Imagine losing access to your freshwater because the river shifted across an imaginary line. At least when the border is the river, you always have access to the river.
Yo but who is living in that little blue house, that must be sick
What little blue house?
The one with the blue little window.
Or green* might have had a night filter on my phone when i posted that haha
I’m surprised no one shared that
Reminds me of a Wild Thornberrys episode I saw when I was a kid where they fell off a boat and needed to cross a mountain to catch it on the other side.
Is it an oxbow or a puppyhammer?
