ikiru @ ikiru @lemmy.ml

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I have a friend who was deported from India back to the US.

And I almost got deported from Canada and China back to the US.

She knows.

She doesn't care.

Well, if you had read my comment carefully within its context you'd see I said specifically that if you were using eMule in the early 2000s then you must have lived through the 90's, which is true.

If you need more help understanding that then please let me know so I can ignore your request at my leisure.

But you wouldn't have been using eMule in the early 2000's unless you lived through the 90's so I think it counts.

I also used eMule.

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

I have really good hand-eye coordination, move very quietly, have fast reflexes, and am good at solving riddles.

I think it sets me up to be talented at a profession which pays very well but is very illegal so it shall go nameless.

Just say you don't give a shit about their lives and be fucking done with it.

Well, yes, I think it can be said of any tourist attraction if the attraction is something as dangerous as this to the locals. But, luckily, most tourist attractions are not as dangerous so it's unnecessary to draw a picture of a slippery slope based off it.

But I don't think it's unfair to paint them as going on an "unnecessary journey", especially if they're dragging along local people who are too poor to have other options for work and may die on said journey. There are plenty of hikes and other things throughout the world that will not involve other people dying for them. Again, if they want to hike Everest because they are tired of their neighborhood trails, then I am all for them going on their life adventure alone or with their friends and family. I couldn't care less. And these are not scientific or exploratory expeditions. Nothing is gained by society nor even by the individual by completing this—other than their own personal ambition or potential increase of wealth related to some althetic records or whatever, which is not worth other people potentially dying over. They may not be rich snobs to us, but relatively speaking they are rich snobs to those locals. This is exactly rich snob behavior at its purest.

Honestly, I wouldn't care if these hikers themselves died en masse trying to go up Everest or whichever mountain alone. Let them keep doing it. It's like those people who jump or fall into the Grand Canyon—I don't think there should be barriers, if they are dumb enough to get too close and fall in then, in the words of Jerry Seinfeld, that's a shame. My concern is their exploiting people who are far poorer than them to accompany them on this unnecessary journey, which they may not even want to do, only to sometimes perish.

If fishermen die while doing a hobby, that's a tragedy but they chose to participate in it. But if they had paid some poor individual to help them in a dangerous fishing situation, at a lake or something, and this was a common practice because people with more resources wouldn't take such an unnecessarily risky job, then I would also say fishing at that location should just be banned. Not because of the fishermen who do it willingly, but because of the poor they exploit in the process and who die for their enjoyment or enrichment. And even if the fishermen were doing it for their own job, that would also be tragic and maybe people shouldn't fish in such a location if it were dangerous, but at least they didn't die for an entirely and totally pointless job.

Getting fish for others to eat is a valuable and meaningful job, shepherding vainglorious Europeans and Americans with a deathwish for no real reason is not a job worth dying for, in my opinion. But it just shows how these expeditions exploit the global poor to death for just the simple pleasures of the relatively wealthy.

I agree, all of these 'hikes' should be banned. It's absurd.

Of course, people will claim that these hikes provide jobs and a healthy economy for people who would otherwise not have work but it just once again shows how these hikers are exploiting desperate people who are literally willing to die for a job.

My favorite episode!

Ikiru.

Cool! Thanks so much!

Ah, okay. I think I understand now. So, I would have to host a server to do that then I assume?

Thank you!

That makes sense, thank you!

How do you install a bridge on Android? Using the bridge, could you theoretically link a WhatsApp account from a different phone?

How does this work? And can you please expain it in terms an idiot, like myself, would understand?

The lesson, of course, is that nothing will satisfy Republicans short of Garland appointing Trump himself to investigate [Hunter] Biden.

I would pay good money to watch that shitshow.

Michelle's looking good.

I'm not trying to convince you to come to Florida. Just saying it's not as bad for most as it may sound.

But everywhere is different and Florida is a unique place and it's worth visiting if you get the chance. I've been throughout Florida and it's beautiful. And I've very extensively travelled internationally so please don't assume it's a sheltered perspective from someone who never left the US.