Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, set foot on the restricted territory of North Sentinel – part of India’s Andaman Islands – in an attempt to meet the Sentinelese people, who are believed to number only about 150.
“The American citizen was presented before the local court after his arrest and is now on a three-day remand for further interrogation,” the Andaman and Nicobar Islands police chief, HGS Dhaliwal, told AFP.
God, he even looks like a prick.
Everyday I cant help but just shake my head at my own countrymen. I hate it here.
Just nothing but selfish stupid people.
It’s always the idiots that try stunts like this, and no small amount of them come from the US.
Imagine having no knowledge of the outside world, then you stumble upon a ghost saying, “But first I wanna thank my sponsor; Raid: Shadow Legends!”
He’s lucky that India’s police caught him before the locals did
A fun fact, the Indian govt won’t prosecute the sentenelese people for dispatching their invaders
He apparently wasn’t planning on staying but still a moronic move.
Alright, I’m going to say it out loud, despite the risk of this being counted as uncivil (via Rule 1) 🤞 🤞
These imbeciles don’t need stern lectures, fines, or jail - they need livestreamed floggings to humiliate or even cripple them. Hundreds of millions should see, record, archive, and openly mock their distress publicly as a stark reminder of the stakes involved.
The Sentinelese are a genetic sub-group so isolated, and so unique that their loss would be incalculable. They’re a living, breathing, irreplaceable time capsule of human culture and genetic information, and the thought that some thrill-seeking wanker could decimate them by passing the common cold to one of their members is beyond worrisome - it’s enraging. As lucky as we were that the last worthless dick-beater - American Evangelical missionary, John Allen Chau - to make their way to the island was summarily killed, that luck may not hold out. We’re talking about a group whose immunity is such a throwback that something like Chickenpox, Rubella, or Influenza could decimate the island’s population. For next-nearest historical comparison, Smallpox, to which the inhabitants of North America had virtually no resistance due to longstanding geographic isolation from infection, is estimated to have killed 90% of the continent’s population via European contact.
I’m not on this guys side at all, but it’s kinda a weird take to talk about the potential wipeout of an entire group of people as bad because they serve as an irreplaceable time capsule of information. I’m sure you care for other reasons too, but it just struck me as odd.
Man, comments like yours are a shining example of people whose minds are too far gone because of these forums.
It’s like your existing in a fantasy-land where upvotes and hysteria are currency, and you’re chasing after both.
Reality and reason are not concepts you enjoy.
What did they say that was so wrong?
I don’t disagree in the slightest — other than “decimate” ≠ “devastate” yet linguistic drift naturally followed the pseudo-Calliope Syndrome that normalized this fuckup, and here we are. 🤦🏼♂️
Ah, the confidently illiterate leading morphology is not on my Boring Dystopia ™ bingo card, but maybe it’s on yours?
edit: Apologies for any hiccups in your comprehension. You can get better, though. Hint: that personal growth doesn’t start in an echo chamber, so don’t be a wart. Read more.
Your neckbeard is showing.
I don’t disagree in the slightest — other than “decimate” ≠ “devastate” yet linguistic drift naturally followed the pseudo-Calliope Syndrome that normalized this fuckup, and here we are. 🤦🏼♂️
Ah, the confidently illiterate leading morphology is not on my Boring Dystopia ™ bingo card, but maybe it’s on yours?
The Cambridge dictionary has this as it’s only definition since it’s other use is archaic.
to kill a large number of something, or to reduce something severely
Using the word to mean reducing by 1/10th started to fall out of use in the 1800s.
I’ll also bet that people who get pedantic over decimate will also use “myriad” as an uncountable noun instead of meaning precisely 10,000, which it used to mean.
As far as I’m concerned that’s attempted murder on his part
🤦
and recorded a video before returning to his boat
Did it for clout.
What a prick.
Either he’s never heard of John Chau or he’s trying to become the next John Chau.
A very well deserved Darwin award.
If true then good.
His YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Neo-Orientalist
Risks his life for 500 subs.
You don’t even need to look further than the guy’s username to get the sense that he’s an obnoxious little prick.
wtf even is neo-orientalism
Changing the main character in the matrix to someone of Asian descent…?
Removed by mod
Quoting a line from Firefly describing what happens when you get attacked by Reavers? That’s a paddlin’.
Just gotta go grab Jayne’s Chain o’ Command.
This comment shouldn’t have been censored.
There’s an overactive mod, or group of mods, that is quickly diminishing the integrity of this community.
I’ve seen enough mod abuse in the past 20 minutes to make sure I don’t take their decisions at face value.
The Sentinelese people are not known to practice cannibalism, or flaying.
Your comment doesn’t make the American idiot look worse. It makes the Sentinelese sound awful.
One previous idiot was killed by unknown means, likely an arrow or spear then this happened.
The fishermen later saw the islanders dragging Chau’s body and the next day they saw his body being buried on the shore
I’m learning new stuff every day.
I was wrong and I found out today that they don’t eat people, but they do kill people. Still though, best not to go to places like that.
I apologize for being incredibly offensive, and won’t do any dirty deletes.
But they might have caught some disease of him and died. We have to keep up food safety standards for these guys.
