Karl 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

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• Romkslrqusz@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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!

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    the real shitpost are the friends we made along the way

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    • hansolo@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Albert Watermelon, we are friends?

      Yeah. We can be friends.

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  • King@blackneon.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • Decoy321@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Mod here. Please post something against the rules so I can get that dopamine hit. This one is perfectly okay to be here.

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    • pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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• Gates9@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s Russia.

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• BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Some men will do anything to avoid getting a job, and we commend them.

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  • Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Most jobs are a pointless waste of time that are upheld under the threat of starvation and destitution, and I say that as someone fully employed.

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    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I can do you one even better. I am full time employed, I train IT supporters. Which means, that my job is to enable people to waste their time, in order to make you be able to waste yours. Just taking another trip round the wast-o-time-ception merry-go-round: my school employs IT staff as well.

      Life is hard, pointless, and full of injustice. But at least in the end you get to die a meaningless death while alone and afraid.

      This got dark, remember that you need to pretend to be happy again come Monday morning. Otherwise starvation will get you before the tumor, that you didn’t know you were to going to get 5 years before “retirement”. Here’s a little inspiration “Pretend You’re Happy” by Jay Forman recorded in the luxury of what appears to be a 2000s 3 door citroën saxo m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY

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    • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Most jobs are a pointless waste of time

      His journey, on the other hand, is a pointful waste of time.

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• blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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

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  • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But he would fail his bet by not walking

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    • Thalion@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Apparently swimming is close enough. He swam the Caspian since that was easier than dealing with Iran

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• PlaidBaron@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • GlitchyDigiBun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • JesusChristLover420@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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  • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He’s already made the Fellowship of the Ring look like lightweights

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  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Some people want to see the world.

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  • Kalothar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    He didn’t do this the entire time it seems, a lot of getting banned from going to Russia was a afoot Haha

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  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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  • Fmstrat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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• W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The opposite of a shitpost

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  • Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Pipi post?

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• sunstoned@lemmus.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And ah-I! would walk five hun-dred miles and ah-I! would walk five hun-dred more. To be! the man that walked five thousand miles! to win that bet for sure. DADADUH

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  • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    DADADUH

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    • blarghly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      DADADUH

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• Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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.

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    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Don’t they have tunnels from france to england? Surely maintenance fellers walk those tunnels, so there would be a way.

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  • GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    TIL Scotland and Wales don’t exist

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    • BlackVenom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yw

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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?

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  • King@blackneon.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    • My instance does not accept me uploading photos.
    • Imgur is blocked in the UK.

    That leave me with very few options.

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    • Beacon@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Wait, why is imgur blocked in the uk?

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    • YoSoySnekBoi@kbin.earth ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you tried Catbox? I see a lot of people on the Threadiverse using it

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Reddit pays the hosting fee for the image instead of the lemmyverse? IDK beyond that.

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• Hedup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Is the bet subject to inflation?

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I heard that he just wanted to do something quickly before doing the washing up.

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The things a man can do to win a bet. :)

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• Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What exactly did he bet?

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  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His left nut

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• NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Where the fuck do people get the money to live in this completely useless, detached, ego-centric, bullshit fashion?

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  • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This but without the unnecessary aggression towards something that hurts nobody.

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  • Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The same place artists get it? As long as people enjoy watching what you do and are inspired by it it is worth something.

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    • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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.

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  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The world has to be in an utter state for people to voice contempt for a person who’s simply walking around.

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  • howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      He punished a book

      What was the punishment?

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• HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He must be getting something amazing from winning the bet to keep at it like this!

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  • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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

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    • HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah that’s a good point. Win a bet, and do what you love.

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• digital_man@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dunno but he happen to be white. Can’t even imagine a person color doing this ( today ).

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  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Have you heard of a thing in Australia called walkabout?

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    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Those don’t go through super racist places like Russia.

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• ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Good, some did it so that i don’t have to

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• FauxPseudo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Show the picture to your mum and see how she reacts, then you’ll have your answer.

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