I agree. But the original post I responded to has the tone that what’s happening in Minnesota is just as bad as in Iran. Every life lost like you mentioned is bad, so 30k deaths is significantly worse than 2. It said Trump is trying to out do Iran. The two situations aren’t the same other than they are political protests. One is mass slaughter, the other is two political murders. I’m not saying it won’t get worse, but it’s not the same.

You might be right, but there truly is no real comparison between the two. As bad as shit is here, these are wildly different magnitudes of difference in the situations.

How big are you? I’ve got a buddy that is > 500lbs. He struggles to walk a city block. If you’re not clinically obese, walking an hour shouldn’t be difficult. As others mentioned, if your in reasonably good health, go to a doctor.

30k+ deaths vs 2. Trump is a tyrannical asshole, but equating the two is dumb AF.

Money shouldn’t have any part in this debate. Risk is risk. I’d also argue most people that see free solo and get inspired to try climbing something like El cap wouldn’t physically be able to climb very high. People like Honnold make it look easier than it is where most people can’t do a pull up. The ones that can know the risks.

Props for the community work and good will you share. We need more people helping each other.

People are stupid and if they’re dumb enough to do something they aren’t equipped to do is natural selection. I don’t want people dying, but that’s the risk and they know it.

Evel Kneivel was jumping canyons on a dirt bike long before social media. People doing death defying stunts is a tail as old as time. I’ve watched many videos of kids climbing towers and doing stupid shit like hanging of the edge well over a decade ago too. It’s not Honnold that pushed them there

Well that’s because you’re an awful person.

Participating in extreme sports is a mental illness? Pushing ones limits is not a mental illness. He knows the risks and enjoys it. This is what he’s trained for his entire life. It’s no different than a Travis Rice being heli dropped off on top of a mountain in Alaska and snowboarding down. Or a Redbull athlete jumping between planes in a wing suit. Different strokes for different folks. Not a mental illness.

If is doing some heavy lifting here. Granted, free climbers don’t tend to live to an old age, but at least with something like Taipei, it was approved and setup with people that know the risks.

7 people on a niche platform that saw your post. Millions saw free solo and millions more watched him climb Taipei yesterday. If you don’t like it, don’t watch it. It’s that simple. Wishing death on him and then saying it’s somehow promoting suicide is some dumbass shit. It’s an extreme sport, clearly not your thing.

“I don’t like the thing that he does that doesn’t affect anyone else, so I think he should die.” What I ridiculous fucked up belief.

This dude deserves nothing less that an ass beating then criminal charges.

AI is dog shit, it’s taxing on the environment and people (through rising energy costs to train models), and the product is bad. If you can’t write your own words or generate your own ideas, then the slop you generate has no value and people can see it’s trash. You keep saying AI isn’t going anywhere, but it takes a minimal effort to research the current state of the technology and see that it’s not productive, companies hosting it are hemorrhaging money, and that there will be significant changes in the future. LLMs have been around for a long time, but it’s not financially viable for these super powers to continue in this path if they want to survive.

Unfortunately the decision makers / lawmakers are a slimy bunch that are good at propaganda.

It’s unfortunate and I’m embarrassed by my fellow countrymen. The US certainly has not often been on the right side of history, but in the here and now, I’m truly disgusted by it all.

If Trump didn’t have a playbook I wonder if he could have accomplished the same tyranny he has.

I’m in the US Virgin islands at the moment on a trip, and I had a good conversation with a taxi driver. Tourism is way down and they are all just as disgusted and feel just as helpless as the rest of us. It’s still a US territory, but anecdotally his shit is flinging on everyone.

There have been many horrible events, but recency bias, I would be interested in what if Hitler never came to power, there was no WWII, and no Holocaust. Would his failure to forge a path to power have prevented many of today’s happenings and not put the US as the top world power for decades, or would we still have ended up here? Israel and Palestine would likely be different, nukes wouldn’t have been dropped, and maybe the Soviet union wouldn’t have collapsed. I’m not a history guy, so maybe all of this is off base. Again, certainly worse things in history that if changed would have reshaped the world, but this is definitely not a small thing affecting us today.

I sure as shit wouldn’t be shooting children in the streets. Anywhere I guess, but also the streets. I’d rather take a bullet to the head denying an order instead of murdering an innocent.