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Ilikeblankets@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Patrikvo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Which has a very bad reputation. Yet 99.9% of it involves fresh air, great views, a sense of freedom only birds know and people still only focus on that 0.1% at the end.

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  • ieatpwns@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Falling/getting thrown out of the window doesn’t suck. Stopping and landing does

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well then don’t land. Are people stupid?

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    • kboy101222@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I mean, it won’t kill you, but it definitely would suck

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  • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Right? And you know it must be fun because all the Russian Oligarchs seem to die from it whenever Putin needs money!

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  • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For some reason I seem to recall it being associated with ending rich people.

    Probably why it gets a bad rep

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    • CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s the number 1 cause of death by Russian Oligarchs, number 2 Beijing polonium poisoning. Weird huh?

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      • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Ooh, I’m not caught up on my Russian oligarch lore.

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• stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  correct! extra point if you didn’t look that up

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• CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wikipedia has an article with some historical examples

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defenestration

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• wolfrasin@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  When emperors embrace tradition

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