KingKarl Bushby: Made a bet in 1998 that he could walk from Chile to England. 27 Years later, Still walking. Survived Darién Gap, 57 days in a Russian prison, Traversing the Bering Strait on shifting ice
RomkslrquszJust what community do you think this is?! I don’t come here for interesting, quality content and the wikipedia article doesn’t even mention anything about him shitting on a post!
🍉 Albert 🍉the real shitpost are the friends we made along the way
hansolowake up babe, new bff just dropped
In all seriousness, most communities feel buggy on my instance(I need to find them manually on my instance) and some moderators on Lemmy seem to get a hit of dopamine when they remove any post or comment on their community.
My answer to all of this is that I just use the shitpost community for everything.
That solution seems super perfect for me.
Mod here. Please post something against the rules so I can get that dopamine hit. This one is perfectly okay to be here.
AussiemandeusI think this is the normal instance behavior of Lemmy instances. It would be too much load for small instances to sync everything in the fediverse. Instead a member of your instance needs to first manually find a community before it starts tracking and makes it automatically available to the other instance members from there on.
In March 2006, Bushby and French adventurer Dimitri Kieffer crossed the Bering Strait on foot, having to take a roundabout 14-day route across a frozen 150-mile (240 km) section to cross the 58-mile (93 km) wide strait from Alaska to Siberia.[4] They were detained by Russian border troop officers while they were crossing the Russian border near the Chukotkan village of Uelen, for not entering Russia at a correct port of entry.
Huh, I didn’t even think that was possible. Imagine the immigration officers face when they told him how they got there.
dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️It’s also an incredibly stupid bureaucratic clusterfuck of the magnitude that only customs and border people can achieve. Surely there should be some mechanism wherein you can send a letter or something to the Russian authorities to inform them, “Hey, we’re trying this stupid stunt and here is our plan, let us make our declarations now and we’ll pick up all the paperwork on the way once we get there.” But there probably isn’t, and then you wind up with crap like this.
The tinniest of tin-pot jumped up little dictators are never to actually be found in your nation’s capital. Instead they’re all lined up along its borders acting like these various lines in the sand were laser-etched there by god and aren’t ultimately just arbitrary and, indeed, historically much more fluid than they’d like to pretend.
AllNewTypeFaceIt’s Russia.
If you think that you’d be treated differently entering USA in undesignated point of entry… You’d be right. If you didn’t get shot on the spot, you’d rot in jail for decades until somebody decides to deal with your case.
He is white. I’m sure they would slap him on the ass and tell him not to get into too much trouble.
Don’t know what you’ve heard but the government is specifically targeting people based on their Melanin.
The US is not a safe place for anyone especially POC.
That’s the accurate statement. Yes ICE/Border Patrol are disproportionately targeting POC, but they’re not stopping there.
Lol. I’m white passing. I can tell you with certainty that the danger is disproportionately aimed at one side of the Melanin scale. (It isn’t the side I inhabit, btw.)
Okay cool you can say that as much as you want, but there are documented cases demonstrating that this effects everyone in the US or attempting to enter.
I even acknowledged already that POC are disproportionately affected in my last comment. Why are you trying to manufactured an argument?
I came to make a joke about the over abundance of American racism.
You: Well akshually…
Unfortunately it’s hard to tell it’s a joke these days when my country is being an absolute shithole and doing these bad things.
You could have started by saying you meant it as a joke. Tone doesn’t translate to text
I said they would slap his ass. Words do translate to tone, you just seemed to be really offended that white people didn’t make the cut.
See you tell me it’s a joke then you keep making claims that aren’t entirely accurate. Idk what you want at this point
Have you tried deez?
undefinedI keep wondering why images aren’t loading and it’s because they’re hosted by Reddit? I blocked them ages ago but why are we using Reddit’s CDN for Lemmy posts’ images?
- My instance does not accept me uploading photos.
- Imgur is blocked in the UK.
That leave me with very few options.
Because it might be porn. If websites are found to be serving 18+ content without rigorous Orwellian ID checks they can be fined out their fucking arse.
A lot of websites have just blocked the UK entirely instead of dealing with that shit.
YoSoySnekBoiHave you tried Catbox? I see a lot of people on the Threadiverse using it
I heared that Catbox is struggling financially.
I use it from time to time, but I am not fully dependent on it. Because if it shut down at any time, all the memes, photos and videos becomes instantly lost media.
You might feel like catbox will stay here forever, but looking at my internet experience, nothing stays forever.
What exactly did he bet?
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PlaidBaronThis is amazing but I genuinely wonder if he’ll regret doing it once he’s done. Thats a huge chunk of your life to devote to one thing.
Cant deny he’ll be making history though.
agamemnonymousSome people want to see the world.
GlitchyDigiBunI mean… Isn’t that how humanity rolls? Historically speaking anyways, 99 out of 100 people live and die close to where they were born, while the oddball goes and does a Leif Erikson for his whole life and then we get Iceland. His psychology compels him to do this.
I love Senku’s speech in Doctor Stone where he tells Tsukasa that his plan to hold back humanity’s technology forever was doomed from the start. Because some human beings are insane and will spend their entire lives trying to do something that nobody else thought of. And over enough thousands of years, this process will inevitably result in someone walking on the moon. Science is madness and it’s built in to humanity.
Brave Little Hitachi WandHe’s already made the Fellowship of the Ring look like lightweights
He wasn’t going to keep those 27 years anyway, and climbing the career ladder, having a few kids and steadily paying off a mortgage must have somehow not seemed like a compelling alternative
Monks devote their lives to one thing. Many craftsmen devote their lives to one thing. Activists, philosophers, doctors, diplomats, bakers. Devoting your life to a specific thing can be enriching.
Digestive_BiscuitHe sits down in his old local pub and catches up with old mates after finally completing his journey. His mate Dave points out that he completely missed Africa. Off he goes again.
He must be getting something amazing from winning the bet to keep at it like this!
You ever do something and realize you actually kinda enjoy it? I have a feeling that’s the case. He was probably already an avid hiker when he started too
Yeah that’s a good point. Win a bet, and do what you love.
Mr Bushby, who wants access to a service tunnel separate to that used by the trains, said: “If I have to swim across, I obviously will. But it will be colder than the Caspian.”
I mean, obviously
But he would fail his bet by not walking
Apparently swimming is close enough. He swam the Caspian since that was easier than dealing with Iran
Imagine being so difficult to deal with that someone would rather swim across an entire sea than interact with you…
Where the fuck do people get the money to live in this completely useless, detached, ego-centric, bullshit fashion?