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[-] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 294 points 1 year ago

Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 46 points 1 year ago

He seems to have astonishing balance for someone with one leg

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 177 points 1 year ago

Stay on the ground floor, Russians.

[-] jaschen@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago

Heart attacks happens on every floor.

[-] ATDA@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago

So do poisonings, and shootings but we're just mitigating circumstances here lol.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 year ago

There could always be a feral bullet that has ran away from it's gun!

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

"Tragically fell from the ground floor balcony and landed on two bullets to the back of the head."

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 174 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A nice window to the future for US citizens critical of their government... a window ripe for defenestration...

If I die mysteriously from a fall, please refer to this comment.

[-] Arigion@feddit.org 79 points 1 year ago

Actually you will probably die in a Tesla whose doors do not open https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/friends-trapped-in-tesla-burned-to-death-when-electronic-doors-failed-to-open-after-crash/ar-AA1tWPYH

Or which just hits you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

I mean now where Teslas are probably the next mandatory car for state officials. And after some "Think Tank" will be pretty sure that all the saftey fuss about autopilots is bad for the economy.

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[-] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 128 points 1 year ago

They don't have any budget to do it differently or it's a power move, like, it's not official but you know it?

[-] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 179 points 1 year ago

It's a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.

[-] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

I wonder how Red Bull sales are in Russia.

[-] tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago

What do you think Trump's calling card will be? McDonalds induced heart attack?

[-] Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago

Government issued tesla drove into a lake and drowned the occupants.

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[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago
[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 year ago

"haha no problem, this is polonium tea"

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

don't worry this is just normal tea I offer before I throw you off building

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 97 points 1 year ago
[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You're just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We're actually jealous of you.

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[-] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 85 points 1 year ago

I mean ballet dancers are known for being klutzy and prone to tripping over their own feet. Right?

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[-] cyd@lemmy.world 63 points 1 year ago

I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.

[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago

The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he's just held up on Level B?

[-] reinei@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 62 points 1 year ago

Russia be slippery. My heart goes out to these rare brave souls in a land of cowards.

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.

Good news Russias economy is in the toilet and someone has started flushing already, Ukrain will prevail and hopefully we'll have peace one day.

[-] solomon42069@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago

More realistically, he'll probably die of old age or be ousted by someone younger and more exciting to the wealthy elite that keep Putin in power. Real change may come after that, but a change in leadership is not going to immediately fix long term issues like corruption, wealth disparity, etc.

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

I think they will become a Chinese vassal.

I don't know exactly what that'd look like, but the pure economic/political dynamics make it seem kinda inevitable.

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[-] Badeendje@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago
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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 42 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So many people fall from their windows or balconies in Russia that I am surprised they are still legal

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Someone pushed for a new law outlawing them, but the efforts ended after he accidentally fell off a balcony to his death.

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[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's to make the point that they were murdered. It's a fear tactic with plausible deniability.

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[-] WrenFeathers@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

How long before windows make it to the statistics of average deaths per-year in Russia?

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[-] uis@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago

Again? That's another reason to uninstall all windows. Especially in Russia.

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[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago

They really could use some railings over there.

[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As far as I read, he had a ~~leg~~ spinal injury and an operation scheduled (bad stuff for a ballet dancer - you can't work with an injured ~~leg~~ spine) and was experiencing difficulties with alcohol and painkillers (the latter for the injury). He might have felt that his career was doomed.

As far as I read, he called his girlfriend (or maybe ex-wife, as the article suggests) and asked her to visit him. When she arrived, he had already fallen.

He was characterized as optimistic and nobody had noticed a death wish. Then again, during injury, pain, inability to work, (self-)medication and maybe withdrawal symptoms, other people's predictions of character may not entirely apply to every person.

The balcony was described as not the safest place on Earth. It doesn't require a detective to suspect that being under the influence of strong painkillers might increase the risk.

He can't be characterized as an opposition figure, or a figure of power. There is no clear beneficiary or motive.

As for war and statements against it - he was an artist, a dancer in a publicly funded theatre, and limited by that in what he could say without losing his job. Since it seems that he had reasonable political opinions, inability to voice them without experiencing retribution probably didn't make him cheerful.

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