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    5 months ago

    What percentage is that? Compared to the number of worked that died building their stadiums for the world cup, it’s nothing (to them).

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    I can’t see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature’s only going to be going up (even after La Niña).

    It’s part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it’s not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you’re talking 51.8C that’s not really moving the needle.

    I’d heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.

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          I’ll take one for the team and fucking put that shit to the motherfucking test. Pretty sure we can bitch and moan all we want, as long as we aren’t attacking some other user’s ass.

          I think you mean it might end up removed on this instance, though Lemmy itself doesn’t have some kind of global automod built in, controlled by some central censorship team at the top. It’s just regular mods following up on reports, generally. Maybe bigger instances have automods, but that would only affect those instances’ users and the communities that live upon them.

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      Y’all are too used to self-censorship, even on Lemmy. It’s kind of sad how corporate online spaces have conditioned us…

      Also I can’t figure out what “b***s” is a stand-in for? …butts?

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        Maybe a pair of asterisks got eaten by markdown formatting, though they don’t look embolded or italicised. I’ll also choose to believe it’s “excessive lifestyle, butts”.

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      Yeah but it’s an insult to lady dogs. I don’t give a fucking toss about those goddamn oil pumping tweezer-tosser arseholes, if that’s what you were looking for?

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      Yep. I hate how Lemmings just go “religion bad” and pretend like these people deserve it for having different beliefs. And I’m pretty sure that global warming has also played a part in this.

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      While it is a horrible tragedy. It is a preventable one.

      And given the sheer amount of pilgrims (2,5 million by some estimates), it could have been a lot worse. Given that size some will die by sheer statistical probability.