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  • As they made their way up Angel’s Landing, MJ’s partner started walking faster than her. “I could tell it was getting on his nerves that I was slow,” she said. “I was like, ‘Fuck it, just go ahead of me.’” He did without hesitation.

    When she caught up at the top of the mountain, they took a picture together. Then her partner hiked down the mountain with a woman he had met on the way up, leaving MJ to finish by herself

    Both her and the author thought it was important to note that it was gasp a woman that he talked to.

    There’s a logical implication for why they both thought that was important enough to be included when retelling the story.

    Saying that someone’s implication might not be true isn’t the same as making an assumption.

    It’s literally the opposite…


  • Her mom’s issue is the media and courts treated her daughter like a lost sheep led up a mountain.

    She was an experienced climber and they planned their trips together.

    He didn’t take the emergency supplies, he just didn’t swaddle her like a baby in her own.

    The helicopter call stuff was kind of shady tho, and rightfully why he was found guilty.

    But it’s not like the mom said he was innocent, she said it was likely an accident, because procedure in climbs like that is to leave someone behind, and she knew that because her daughter had been doing this long before the boyfriend.

    But her comments got misrepresented for the headlines.

    It all makes logical sense, it’s just the people telling us about it care more about drama and clicks than informing people.

    If you understand it, it becomes an incredibly boring story that doesn’t stand out. Which is why TikTok went the complete opposite direction, and mainstream media is reporting on their nonsense for the clicks.

    Quick edit:

    Specifically for the emergency blanket part, the last stages of hypothermia makes you feel insanely hot.

    The early stages cut off circulation to limbs to keep the torso warm, that’s why frostbite effects the extremities, it’s a trade off. When you’re going to die from it, you’re body can’t squeeze you’re arties off and all that “warm” blood floods to your limbs, causing them to quickly rise in temp while the vital parts get cold.

    So she likely was bundled up just fine when he left her.

    That’s all normal stuff climbers know, but the media/courts seemed to be willfully ignorant of.



  • So…

    They weren’t in an exclusive relationship.

    She told him to walk ahead without her.

    And he talked to someone else since she told him not to walk with her, someone he seems to have met while waiting for her at the summit before going down.

    Kind of sounds like she broke off a situationship on a hike. And immediately assumed if he talked to any woman then he was romantically interested in her, so their open relationship was never going to work anyways.

    Even the actual alpine one where the woman was left in a blizzard recently and died, her parents have come out and said the infantilizing of their daughter was an insult to her memory.

    Like, it should be a safe bet that anything that starts on TimToknis bullshit.

    But yeah, big outdoorsy trips aren’t for rocky relationships. Romantic or otherwise you need to be going with people you trust. Shit can get stressful and not everyone reacts well to stress. It’s not the same thing as the same distance walk thru the park.


  • Ask Gemini, the AI service powered by Google

    How about we don’t rely on AI to say if something is AI?

    How about we take the time to train our actual brains to spot the difference?

    Like, that’s the silver lining of dlss 5 for me. Theyre just slapping that stupid AI filter and getting a bunch of blowback, but there was a very brief window where people kept using the same filter on normal pictures.

    Not only is that shit useless, it’s functionally dangerous because that blurs the lines. It picks up all the hallmarks of AI, giving false positives that an image isn’t real.

    I’m hoping the dlss 5 blowback will kill the AI upscaling of random modern images. And people actually start using their fucking brains.