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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 25 points 14 hours 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?

[–] selfAwareCoder@programming.dev 13 points 13 hours 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.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 5 points 11 hours 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

[–] vxx@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours 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.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 22 points 15 hours 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!

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 6 points 11 hours ago

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

[–] x00z@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

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

[–] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 14 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Skua@kbin.earth 17 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

Unless you're a POC of course

[–] RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

There are people with Slavic names in the USA

[–] Lembot_0001@lemm.ee 6 points 16 hours ago

Yes, even a president has one :)

[–] groet@feddit.org 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 15 hours 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.

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

[–] whatevercomeon@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago

American used measels. It was super effective.