• TheStaffmaster@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Europe is actually more a collection of large islands that have temporarily decided to exist as a unified land mass because Africa and Asia are squeezing it from both sides (geologically speaking)

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      Geologically speaking India and surroundings are also not Asia but a separate continent running into Asia creating the Himalayas

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          Continent is an arbitrary division not consistently backed by any actual geological features.

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                  I’d appreciate if you could answer the question. Do you perhaps have another geologic feature to propose? If you want to use large landmasses, then islands don’t belong to any continents at all. If you don’t set a minimum size, then there are far too many continents to remember. So what is it?

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                    Australia is the minimum size. Isthmuses, oceans and seas are separators. Islands don’t belong to any continent. What do you think?

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                    Do you perhaps have another geologic feature to propose? If you want to use large landmasses, then islands don’t belong to any continents at all.

                    Isn’t proximity a good argument? This is exact kind of tomfoolery he’s talking about.

                    He called out your arbitrary bs and now you go on a dense stupid defense.