Polenko’s last words were…
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Okay, okay, sorry.
A tourist fell more than 170 feet to her death when she stumbled while taking a selfie from a clifftop viewing platform, the latest in a string of such incidents.
39-year-old Inessa Polenko plunged from the panoramic Gagry viewing point in Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia as she tried to take a photo of herself.
Polenko, who was a beautician and a keen Instagram user, climbed over a barrier to reach the clifftop viewing point which overlooks the Black Sea. However, as she climbed over the barrier to take a selfie, Polenko stumbled and fell onto a beach below, according to eyewitnesses.
Not to be callous (I guess it’s too late for that) but isn’t this and the above-linked tragic incidents the very definition of “culling the herd”?
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Are the Darwin awards still a thing?
Good news, it still exists. Bad news, she probably doesn’t qualify.
Why not?
This is basic stupid. Darwin awards are for advanced stupid.
This merits a Darwin participation trophy at best
I second
Did she have kids? Darwin awards are about removing yourself from the gene pool IIRC?
Could’ve had more even if she already had some, still something!
I believe the event to be to mediocre to be worthy of a darwin award, but that is just my subjective opinion.
I don’t know. Maybe ask the cleverly named @DessertStorms@kbin.social?
She was chasing clout and found thud.
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As per the article saying that “selfies pose a health concern”, I’m going to posit that instead of a health concern, it’s literally just Darwinism at it’s most basic.
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Minnewaska State Park is not near Rochester.
E: The article states that Minnewaska is near Rochester. Read it before you downvote.
Neither is Sri Venkateswara Zoological Park, the point isn’t the location.
Edit: their point stands, Minnewaska is like an hour-ish from New York, New York and like 4 hours from Rochester. Kind of a weird decision by the journalist. Shit, Rochester is closer to Canada than it is Minnewaska.
I was commenting on the article that stated Minnewaska was “near Rochester”, not on the locations as a whole.
Holy shit, I just mapped it out.
Why wouldn’t they just say it’s outside of the big apple? New York, New York isn’t even a third of the distance from Minnewaska to Rochester.
I’ll edit my response too, I didn’t realize how egregious this was.
I mean, in the grand scheme of things, it kind of is. It’s not like they said it is “near the Andromeda Galaxy.”
Which to be fair, might actually be pretty close in the grand scheme of things too.
we have a word for this, it’s called “smartass”
Lol! Karma and Darwin at work 😆
Lol
I climbed up a pretty sketchy rock formation once and I did take a photo but not a selfie and I didn’t fall off and die. It was a pretty neato structure it was a really steep ass rocky slope leading into a bit of bouldering to get up to the top where you could see a massive drop on the other side and I could wave to my family on the viewing platform on the other side of the drop and they got a bit freaked out. I didn’t even pretend to fall or anything and they were pretty mad.
Cool story, bro
She was very pretty for a 40 year old. Too bad she was dumb.
Do you think people over 40 can’t be very pretty?
Raising a family causes most 40 year old people to change their habits and lifestyles that make it increasingly difficult for self care.
I thought I was callous.
Beauty filters and Photoshop will do that
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Ferengi Rule of Acquisition number forty nine: Old age and greed will always overcome youth and talent.
Something worth noting is that this is yet another example of how the patriarchy hurts people. She felt that her image on Instagram was so important that she took risks which ultimately lead to her death. She doesn’t have to be an idiot to have this happen, I’ve done tonnes of stupid dangerous stuff in my life and I’m fairly sure everyone else here can think of a few things that could have gone wrong.
The algorithm of something like Instagram is built around enhancing use of the platform. This is the same fundamental motivation as tobacco companies or gambling companies. Your continued use of the product is essential, even if it is harmful to your health. So they design their product to enhance it’s addictiveness and market to people who are vulnerable, say younger women for example, and boom, revenue.
Meta has a meaningful hand in this type of situation. The same goes for all the other attention economy companies. Their product doesn’t have to be harmful but it is way more profitable if harm is not a consideration.
Nah, it was her fault.
I suspect this was also her income source. She had a monetary incentive to draw eyes to her profiles. It’s tempting to take risks when one sees a way to improve their livelyhood.
Excellent observations.
You’re not only callous, but just like the so called “Darwin awards” the idea of “culling the heard” is deeply if not entirely based on eugenics, which in turn is entirely based on racism, ableism, classism and sexism.
You (like the rest of the disgusting commenters) could have so easily just not, and yet here we are…
Holy shit you need to contain that self righteousness boner. That thing is massive.
Thank you.
I would like you to explain how “dumbass pirvileged rich person breaks rules/law despite obvious warnings that they clearly understood and fucking dies because of it” is eugenics
