the real shitpost are the friends we made along the way

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.

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.

But he would fail his bet by not walking

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 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.

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.

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.~~

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)

TIL Scotland and Wales don't exist

• My instance does not accept me uploading photos.
• Imgur is blocked in the UK.
• Imgbb is too fucking slow when uploading.

That leave me with very few options.

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