• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    Water doesn’t give a fuck about you. My wife loves to open swim and was accosted by the lifeguards at a lake yesterday. She was offended by it but man… water doesn’t give a fuck about you and those people were doing the due diligence.

  • TipRing@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Rip currents kill so many people, that sucks. I’ve been caught in one before and while it was scary I remembered how to get away from the current before swimming back in, but even experienced swimmers can drown in the right circumstances. 54 is just way too young to go.

    • v_krishna@lemmy.ml
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      8 hours ago

      Dang, very sad. I was just in Nosara a few weeks back with my family and definitely noticed some serious rips (no surprise, the conditions that make a break good for surfing also make it dangerous).

  • Ad Blocker 117@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Thankfully I am poor and won’t die in a plane crash, in the ocean, at some exotic locale, by lions/tigers/bears/elephants/alligators/rhinos/hippos, food poisoning or kidnappers.

    Although, I could be in my kiddie pool as a plane crashes in my yard and a stray cat eats my carcass.

    • ThePantser@sh.itjust.works
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      12 hours ago

      Anyone can die of food poisoning, poor people more often as they will be more likely to not want to throw out expired/questionable food