• @krashmo
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    -81 year ago

    She didn’t have her cellphone, so she couldn’t call for help either.

    Phones aren’t just for playing music. It’s certainly not her fault this happened but if she hadn’t left her phone somewhere else this would have been over inside an hour.

    • @Radium@sh.itjust.works
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      171 year ago

      You fall a lot snowboarding, it’s more about not breaking your phone than whether or not you want to listen to music or have a need for it. There is risk to taking it and risk to not taking it

      • @Pretzilla
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        -31 year ago

        Nah, not like you are falling on rocks. I carry my phone like almost everyone does.

        It doesn’t excuse the shoddy lift patrolling, though.

        • @UFO64
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          -61 year ago

          Tell me you’ve never been snowboarding without saying you’ve never been snowboarding.

          • @krashmo
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            61 year ago

            Either you’re bad at snowboarding or you don’t know how to fall and/or store your phone. It’s not difficult to do.

            • @UFO64
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              -51 year ago

              You sound very new to downhill sports.

              • @nyctre
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                51 year ago

                Nah, just not… You, I guess? Not that hard to not fall pelvis first into a rock while surrounded by snow.

          • @jpreston2005
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            21 year ago

            dang, I’ve had the same Samsung Galaxy S10 5g for years. never had a cover on it, took it boarding several times, even used it to film myself hitting some jumps with a selfie stick. I’m not even that good either, I ate shit a few times. Once while it was out on the selfie stick, and a few more where it was in me pocket. Still not a scratch on her. battery still lasts for almost 3 days on a single charge.

            wtf are you talking about? you keeping your phone inside your boot, under your foot?

            • @UFO64
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              -21 year ago

              Any idea why the short battery life?

              And naw, I’ve never broken a phone skiing or snowboarding. I’ve learned from others thinking they were so smart and then dropping money on a new one.

      • @krashmo
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        -31 year ago

        I’m well aware of the risks of winter sports. Getting stuck somewhere on the mountain is about as bad as they get. If you’re alone your phone is pretty much the only tool you have to prevent that from happening if you get injured.

        Learning from other people’s mistakes is how you keep them from happening to you. That’s what you’re supposed to do, not make excuses for them. If you’re more concerned about the possibility of breaking your phone than being able to call for help after reading this then you didn’t learn the right lesson.

        • @UFO64
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          01 year ago

          People have learned just how easy these devices are to break. That’s why she didn’t have hers on her, she learned.

          • @krashmo
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            41 year ago

            I’ve been snowboarding with my phone in my pocket for 20 years and never had an issue. Make excuses all you want, the fact remains that this person could have fixed this problem in 30 seconds with their phone. If you’d still rather leave your phone somewhere else to protect it then that’s your decision to make. Getting stuck on the mountain is your problem to deal with. Just don’t bitch about it if it happens to you.

            • @UFO64
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              -11 year ago

              I’ve been driving for 20 years and never once needed my seatbelt.

              Sounds kinda dumb, doesn’t it?

              • @jpreston2005
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                31 year ago

                lol what a dumb hill to die on, are you that bad at snowboarding you assume everyone else is too?

                • @UFO64
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                  11 year ago

                  Bring good doesn’t mean you don’t fall. These are orthogonal metrics.

              • @krashmo
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                11 year ago

                Put a case on your phone and store it in a pocket you’re not likely to fall on. You’re acting like protecting your device is rocket science and it just isn’t. Plenty of people do it without issue. If you can’t figure it out that’s a you problem.

                • @UFO64
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                  11 year ago

                  Do what you wish stranger, I personally have learned from others.

    • @Opafi@feddit.de
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      It’s certainly not her fault this happened but if she hadn’t left her phone somewhere else this would have been over inside an hour .

      • @krashmo
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        I already said this shouldn’t have happened but that’s not exactly the point, is it? The point is that she had a device that was capable of solving this problem but she chose not to bring it. There may have been a good reason for that but we don’t know.

        If you don’t take your phone you’re assuming that everyone involved will do their job correctly 100% of the time and that just isn’t realistic, as evidenced by the fact that we are talking about this situation right now. Maybe getting stuck on a ski hill overnight is a risk you’re willing to take in order to avoid potentially damaging your phone but I think that’s a bad bet. I’ll take my phone and call for help when needed. Getting stuck on a gondola is not the only situation in which having your phone with you could be useful.

        • @ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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          Somehow the whole world managed to keep spinning before cellphones existed. It may have helped in this situation, but that’s simply using the benefit of hindsight to make ‘the right call’ long after the fact.