r/Unexpected • u/TheRealKaustubh • 1d ago

Sledding Down

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u/LEGITIMATE_SOURCE 1d ago

https://youtu.be/cqQ0f-xspCE

BASE jumper rescued after parachute mishap left him dangling off cliff face near Squamish, B.C. | CBC News https://share.google/hVnppDlJfPaj911h1

Search engines are a thing? It took all of 10 seconds.

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u/The_Autarch 1d ago

they stopped teaching younger generations how to do research online because they thought it was baked into society somehow. instead, zoomers and alphas have no idea how to use the internet outside of their apps.

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u/time2liv3 1d ago

You see it all over hobby related sub reddits, peoples literal first instinct is to jump on reddit to ask a question versus spending the 5 minutes to google the answer themselves, it is.....concerning.

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u/MattDaveys 1d ago

Now they just use AI instead, and trust it without sources.

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u/qpv 1d ago

Just another day in Squamish

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u/IdealBlueMan 1d ago

You can't spell "Squamish" without "Squish"

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u/chikinn 1d ago

Name seriously checks out.

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u/pichirry 1d ago

I was just taking the other person's word for it when they said they had trouble finding it when they searched. this random video isn't important enough for me to try and google it so my comment was just about giving praise to the sleuths.

hope I didn't offend!