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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY
If I didn't have a mortgage, kids, and obligations, then I might just be walking the earth myself.
Thank you so very much. Spoken like a self realized & actualized soul.
We need more individuals to continue posting this type of information in meaningful and thoughtful displays.
Again, major domo!
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.
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 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.
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
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?
"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.
Regarding his trek across the English Channel:
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)
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?
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.
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.
A few people do things like this, meanwhile a few million people WISH they could do things like this but it costs money to survive. That's why people go to work everyday. How do these people earn money to survive while they're walking all the time? Because last time I checked, whenever I walk somewhere I've never earned a damn dime.
From late 2008 to 2010, Bushby spent his time in Mexico for cost reasons and was unable to travel to Russia. This was both because of trouble getting a visa and permits, and because of financial trouble; Bushby lost several of his sponsors due to the 2008 financial crisis. After Bushby secured new sponsors in 2010, the Russian government issued him another visa, and he resumed walking across Russia in the spring of 2011.
So basically he takes breaks, keeps the costs low and has sponsors, but financial troubles are absolutely an issue.
a few million people WISH they could do things like this but it costs money to survive
I don't think money is the only issue. You're also having to take so much time away from family and friends. I think many people would rather have a pretty normal life instead of dedicating years and years to a massive expedition. Hats off to the guy though, it's quite an achievement.
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 since that's a crazy bet to take on without any real prep
Because "a Russian"=gopnik from outside Moscow, right? You do realise Russia has 190 different ethnic groups within their borders? Sure there's racism, but would you say a black guy feels any safer in certain parts of the US? Or let's put aside petty US and European racism for a bit and look at racism in Asia. Malaysia? Racism is baked into the constitution. Philippines? Oh god, the ridiculous stereotypes. Japan? Don't tell me you haven't heard of racism in Japan. India is Olympic level racism. There was no merit to your original statement, and I find it ridiculous that everything has to be turned into a race issue.
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.
He punished published 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.
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!
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
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.
Sex drugs violence racism queerphobia left-handedness
…if you leave this post up you explicitly endorse all those things.
Edit: exposed ankles and hair
Damn lefties
I'm ambi all the way baby
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.
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.
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.
Some men will do anything to avoid getting a job, and we commend them.
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.
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 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PeCrnbJHJeY
If I didn't have a mortgage, kids, and obligations, then I might just be walking the earth myself.
Walking the Earth is all I dream about
Thank you so very much. Spoken like a self realized & actualized soul. We need more individuals to continue posting this type of information in meaningful and thoughtful displays. Again, major domo!
His journey, on the other hand, is a pointful waste of time.
Zoom out a little and realize everything is a waste of time. Now nothing is a waste of time. You are welcome.
Maybe the real wasted time is the friends we made along the way?
Making friends is one of the best ways to waste time. Top 3.
Do nothing to not waste time! Got it, thank you.
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.
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.
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
Some people want to see the world.
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.
He didn’t do this the entire time it seems, a lot of getting banned from going to Russia was a afoot Haha
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.
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.
The opposite of a shitpost
Pipi post?
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
DADADUH
DADADUH
DADADUH
DADADUMDIDDYDUMDIDDYDUMDIDDYDADADA
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.
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.Regarding his trek 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:
TIL Scotland and Wales don't exist
Thanks Obama
Ing-Island: as in the Isle Of The Ings.
Previously known as the Angs
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?
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.
That's fucking crazy wtf
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!!
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.
Reddit pays the hosting fee for the image instead of the lemmyverse? IDK beyond that.
I heard that he just wanted to do something quickly before doing the washing up.
Is the bet subject to inflation?
The things a man can do to win a bet. :)
What exactly did he bet?
His left nut
A few people do things like this, meanwhile a few million people WISH they could do things like this but it costs money to survive. That's why people go to work everyday. How do these people earn money to survive while they're walking all the time? Because last time I checked, whenever I walk somewhere I've never earned a damn dime.
From the wikipedia article:
So basically he takes breaks, keeps the costs low and has sponsors, but financial troubles are absolutely an issue.
I don't think money is the only issue. You're also having to take so much time away from family and friends. I think many people would rather have a pretty normal life instead of dedicating years and years to a massive expedition. Hats off to the guy though, it's quite an achievement.
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 since that's a crazy bet to take on without any real prep
Yeah that's a good point. Win a bet, and do what you love.
Good, someone did it so that i don't have to
Dunno but he happen to be white. Can’t even imagine a person color doing this ( today ).
Have you heard of a thing in Australia called walkabout?
Those don't go through super racist places like Russia.
Because "a Russian"=gopnik from outside Moscow, right? You do realise Russia has 190 different ethnic groups within their borders? Sure there's racism, but would you say a black guy feels any safer in certain parts of the US? Or let's put aside petty US and European racism for a bit and look at racism in Asia. Malaysia? Racism is baked into the constitution. Philippines? Oh god, the ridiculous stereotypes. Japan? Don't tell me you haven't heard of racism in Japan. India is Olympic level racism. There was no merit to your original statement, and I find it ridiculous that everything has to be turned into a race issue.
Chill, I mentioned Russia because that's where even the white dude this story is about had visa issues.
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?
Where the fuck do people get the money to live in this completely useless, detached, ego-centric, bullshit fashion?
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?
The world has to be in an utter state for people to voice contempt for a person who's simply walking around.
He
punishedpublished 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.Existing in this world