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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Aren't these guys uncontacted because they've attacked literally everything that we've seen them with?

So essentially any contact would probably go poorly for the first contactors, and go worse for them?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yes.

Although to my memory it is because the first contact lead to 50% of their population being killed so now they live in violent isolation.

I could also be confusing them with other islands in the area.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Especially since now there’s covid (in addition to everything else) and I don’t trust that guy to have taken sufficient precautions against transmitting diseases

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

There's one guy that gave them food for twenty years without violating their space. He was able to get pictures with them when they came up to the boat one day. They didn't shoot him or showed agression.

It's possible they were desperate for food that day.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago

A GoPro camera recovered from Polyakov’s possession contained footage showing him landing on the island, an act that directly violated both local and national laws.

Hey Kids! It's time to sing our song about Not Filming Yourself Committing Crimes!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Send him to a prison in North Korea as a mistake and claim there's no way to get him back

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

An American adventurer, Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, a big supporter of the American president Krasnov...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Being the son of immigrants doesn’t make him less American

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Unless you're a POC of course

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are people with Slavic names in the USA

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Yes, even a president has one :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Also known as the Backup Humans, if we fuck it up too much…

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Idiot. At least he just left some stuff and set off again without any contact to the islanders

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

The stuff he left could be infested with bacteria and disease foreign to the Sentinalese, so still a bad call.

But at least it wasn't Evangelism this time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Fun fact; North Sentinel Island is protected by India, and if anybody goes there and gets killed, the Sentinelese will not be prosecuted.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

They should have monitored a little, now this post would have been a Dumb Ways to Die post.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

American used measels. It was super effective.