Is the bet subject to inflation?
Just 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!
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.
I 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.
Mod here. Please post something against the rules so I can get that dopamine hit. This one is perfectly okay to be here.
Sex drugs violence racism queerphobia left-handedness
…if you leave this post up you explicitly endorse all those things.
Edit: exposed ankles and hair
the real shitpost are the friends we made along the way
Albert Watermelon, we are friends?
Yeah. We can be friends.
wake up babe, new bff just dropped
I 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?
Reddit pays the hosting fee for the image instead of the lemmyverse? IDK beyond that.
- My instance does not accept me uploading photos.
- Imgur is blocked in the UK.
- Imgbb is too fucking slow when uploading.
That leave me with very few options.
Wait, why is imgur blocked in the uk?
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.
If it’s blocked then why there are so many wankers. Sorry, couldn’t resist.
On the serious note, isn’t age of consent is 16 in UK?
Its 16 to do it, 18 to watch it.
Close your eyes damnit! We don’t want to get busted!!
That’s fucking crazy wtf
Have 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.
Embrace the zen.
Draw your art in the sand of the Catbox.
And then let it flow away, to start a new.
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 border patrol officers face when they told him how they got there.
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.
It’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 if you’ve heard but the US has been arresting white German citizens lately
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.
Like I didn’t say this earlier because in context it was irrelevant and I hate having to write lengthy comments that discuss every part of a large complex issue, but here we are.
What exactly did he bet?
His left nut
I heard that he just wanted to do something quickly before doing the washing up.
This 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.
He didn’t do this the entire time it seems, a lot of getting banned from going to Russia was a afoot Haha
He 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.
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.
Imagine you have a hobby. You get really good at it, and somehow, the hobby pays for itself. You get to quit work and just do your hobby every day.
Imagine your hobby is hiking.
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
He’s already made the Fellowship of the Ring look like lightweights
I 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.
Some people want to see the world.
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.
For those who just read the headline, his isn’t walking all at once.
He walks as much as he can that year, then either stays in that area for a while or goes to another country.
Each time he restarts from the point he left off at.
He also skipped a few years entirely, after the 2008 financial crisis and during the Covid pandemic.
I suppose if Russia had let him be in the country for more than 3 months at a time, he might have been able to do it all at once.
Good, someone did it so that i don’t have to
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…
That’s on him. He wouldn’t have been the first person to walk or bicycle across West Asia, Iran included.
There is a lady who has motorbikes all over the world solo. Her name is Noraly aka Itchyboots. She has a bunch of videos on YouTube documenting everything.
Where the fuck do people get the money to live in this completely useless, detached, ego-centric, bullshit fashion?
The world has to be in an utter state for people to voice contempt for a person who’s simply walking around.
He punished a book about the first segment of his journey, and there are people just throwing money at him because they want to see someone do this.
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Existing in this world
This but without the unnecessary aggression towards something that hurts nobody.
The same place artists get it? As long as people enjoy watching what you do and are inspired by it it is worth something.
Generally speaking, artists get money by making and selling art, or more often by having a day job, they earn it, this guy is just trying to win a bet. It’s just masturbatory.
I very much doubt that the primary motivation to be the first person to walk around the world from South America to the UK is a bet. It’s … Y’know, probably more to do with being the first person to do that.
And what are you doing with your life that’s even half as cool?
That face. I’m wondering how closely he and I are related because that is the face of someone that could be an immediate relative of mine.
Show the picture to your mum and see how she reacts, then you’ll have your answer.
Is this the guy with my Taco Bell order?
Uhm, England is an island, which is surrounded by water. The ice bridge the natives used to migrate to the Americas from Russia during the last ice age is melted, which makes the western continents cut off from the eastern ones by water on all sides. Chile is on the western continents. Last I checked, humans cannot walk on water. So, obvious question here: how is this guy walking from Chile to an island nation in Europe?
Read the wiki article above, it has links to other articles where it’s sourcing its information.
Link to article documenting his expedition across the frozen Bering Strait.“Karl Bushby reached land after 14 days walking across shifting plates of ice in temperatures reaching -30C.” “The ice was breaking up behind him as he walked across.”
However, it does appear that some of his walking has been replaced by swimming.
“In August 2024, Bushby started the swim across the Caspian Sea from Kazakhstan, planning to finish in Azerbaijan to avoid going through Iran or Russia, as both countries were then too dangerous to enter with a British passport. Bushby was accompanied by co-swimmer Angela Maxwell and two Azerbaijani national swimmers, Anastasiya Boborikna and Abdurrahman Rustamov.[15] Each day, Bushby and company swam in two 3-hour sessions: one in the morning, one in the afternoon and resting and sleeping on support boats each night.[16] The swim covering 179 miles (288 km) was achieved in 31 days with 132 swimming hours.[17][18] From Azerbaijan, Bushby then went to Turkey to cross the Bosphorus Strait into Europe”He’ll probably end up swimming across the English channel.
Don’t they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.
edit: ah, found the part in the article talking about that.
I don’t see it in the article, but I found the following in Wikipedia’s Talk section:
Karl relates in his book that he hopes to walk through one of the service tunnels of the Channel Tunnel Tommfuller (talk) 12:03, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist
Thanks Obama
Ing-Island: as in the Isle Of The Ings.
