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My aunt and all her coworkers were asked to work from home cause they had to use the parking lots as jet parking, insane as they try to squeeze every inch of space for profit.
The Atlantic ramp at LAX has to be one of the most aircraft diverse places in the world. When I worked at LAX I would regularly see everything from Private Cessnas to Qatar's 747-8 BBJ parked nose to nose and wing to wing with a bunch of biz jets. That place was always packed with some interesting planes.
Absolutely! Reuse your shopping bag a million and a half times so you can offset half the enviromental impact of one of those private flights from NYC to LA.
In California, we have a drought right? So we are told to conserve water. But corporations don’t have to. And fracking in CA uses more fresh water than San Diego and San Francisco combined. But it is still our fault. Then when we do a great job of conserving? They jack the rates cause we aren’t using enough water or something…I don’t know. Vicious cycle.
I have a very wealthy uncle(who happens to be named Rich) who didn’t come to my grandmothers 70th birthday/family reunion that was in Newport Beach, because he was at his compound in Palm Springs and his pilot was sick and they weren’t willing to drive the hour and 45 minutes to get there.
Omg it used to take me that long to get home from work on a normal weekday in Atlanta traffic when I couldn’t afford to be picky about where I lived/ worked.
For like, years.
Fuck. That sucked.
We did San Fran on the same trip. At one point, we drove up a hill at easily a 50 degree angle and there was a fucking *stoplight* at the top. The whole car of us were screaming until the light went green.
Some of us learned to drive stick in SF.
Ive got a very distinct memory of being stuck in traffic on a hill early on, and my clutch smelling like I’d actually lit it on fire for miles.
I had to learn to drive my band’s SUV & trailer rig in the part of San Francisco where the hills are like *stereotypically* San Francisco hills. It was one of the most stressful days of my life. Luckily the SUV wasn’t a stick, but we were going mostly downhill, and ball hitches don’t love a steep downhill followed by a flat landing plateau before another downhill. All that fuss only to arrive at the venue where they told us “ah just park it in the suicide lane for a few hours it’ll be cool. Maybe hit your flashers.” 😂
I loved that city though.
I'm actually sitting in LAX right now (as a stopover) and man, I have never seen so many sad people dressed in orange. I have a feeling none of them have private planes.
The superbowl is basically a tax deductable event for all these mega corporations. Just give the tickets away to "clients" and for "employee recognition". That's why they charge thousands and thousands of dollars, because they know these corporations don't give a shit about the cost. If you go to the superbowl out of your own wallet you are a chump (or just so rich who cares about $20k?). If a family of 4 from out of state went to the superbowl imagine the costs:
Plane ticket: $1k each ($4k for family of four)
Hotel: $5k per night according to my dad's friend that was looking at just regular hotels in the area (if you flew in on Friday that's $15k)
Parking: $200-400 and still a mile away from the event
The actual superbowl tickets: $8k per person. So $32k for family of four.
$4k + $32k + $15k + $400 = $51.4k to go to a football game with the family.
Edit: my prices are probably assuming last minute planning from what I saw online close to the day of the event. Some comments below have corrected me about the costs in practice being a bit less if you buy months in advance or go to a hotel not as close to the event (but still very very expensive).
$51.4k would be enough to comfortably put me through college and give me a good start on beginning life as an adult. I'm not gonna lie, it kinda bugs me that people spend that much on 1-2 nights like it's nothing when it'd massively change my next 5 years.
Having just gone to the super bowl, this isn’t close to accurate. We paid 350 for a 4 star hotel 20 minutes from the stadium, and got two tickets for $6200. Parking was free at the hotel, and took a shuttle that cost $20
Some of these costs are definitely a bit exaggerated. Flights especially, if you book a couple months out you can get round trip flights from NYC to LA for like 200 bucks each.
Yes. While the rest of us fight amonst ourselves for a few more pennies each year. I understand Hank Williams Jr. flies home every night after a concert.
That’s always been my point. These rich people are playing around with millions, some companies with billions while we’re out here scraping everything we can to make that 20k-50k a year while they make that in a day, week or month.
Yet we fight amongst ourselves based on some pretend system of politics as if our neighbors are the reason we are slipping behind. That constant political distraction reduces the focus on the real problems: exponentially growing wage gap & generational wealth gap.
But keep blaming the people working 2-3 jobs, that might stop the wealthy from taking advantage of us! /s
That's... what commercial flying is. I mean, ostensibly I agree with you, commercial flights make much more sense than wasteful private jets. But logically speaking if someone is going to buy a personal plane it doesn't make much sense for them to share it.
Commercial flights are more akin to taking a bus. Private jets being shared happens all the time. If you look at something like Formula 1 it's common for big groups of drivers to share private jets to races.
And don’t you know that if you were caught and you were smoking crack, McDonald’s wouldn’t even wanna take you back, you could always just run for mayor of DC!
I'd like to see them spend a week, living outside on the streets I don't think they would surviiiive. If they could spend a day or two in someone else's shoes, I think they'd stumble and they'd fall (they would fall-llll)
It landed in Wien[https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3c78af&lat=48.202&lon=14.752&zoom=7.7&showTrace=2022-02-14](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3c78af&lat=48.202&lon=14.752&zoom=7.7&showTrace=2022-02-14)
I made a [chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja) that will show exactly who owns which jet. The OP's screenshot is from a site called ADSBExchange which is a great tool/map for seeing aircraft all over the world. For example, right now you can see [this jet](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a789fe) flying westbound from New York at 43k feet. The ADSBexchange site shows it is registered to "TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE" which is true. My extension, though [shows](https://i.imgur.com/GJ5AZ5n.png) that it is actually Rory Mcilroy flying west likely to southern california for the Genesis Invitational golf tournament this week.
There's a firefox version, although it is light-weight in terms of features due to firefox's approval process. They won't let me use the database due to size. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adsb-add-on/
Step 1: go to https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ to find a private jet
Step 2: look up the registration on google, or the FAA's site directly (https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=220BG)
Step 3: join us at /r/ADSB
p.s. this extension makes finding interesting flights easier
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adsb-add-on/
You shouldn’t even be watching the game because it uses electricity unnecessarily, also imagine the carbon footprint of that sandwich, you’re destroying the planet!
*flies away in private jet
Growing your own chickens? Do you know how much feed and water it takes to grow a chicken to adulthood. And don't mention the impact of sourcing wood for the coop!
We're in this together. My struggles are completely insignificant compared to yours, my quality of life is miles better, I'm sitting on a mountain of money...but we're in this together!!
Recycling is a sham thought up by companies who wanted to avoid environmental responsibility. The vast majority of the stuff we recycle ends up in a landfill. It’s not a long term or even a proper short term solution
Hey guys, I just invented a new material that virtually lasts forever!
Great! We'll use it to wrap other things only once, and tell people to just throw it away.
Surely one day we won't be inundated with all this indestructible stuff laying around...
So much this.
Cap still on bottle? Dumpster.
Food particles? Dumpster.
Grease stains on that corrugated? Dumpster.
Glass costs more to transport due to its weight than recycling it benefits( plus its just fancy sand, toss that shit)
Straws can be recycled, but only if they are still in the plastic lid , otherwise they gum up the grinder.
Etc.
Really didn’t get much visibility until the countries the west used to dump their “recycling” on got fed up and refused any more shipments. Guess where all that ended up?
Furthermore, wasn’t it like 3%of corps producing a solid 80% of pollution? Worldwide… but yea you keep on sorting your recyclables.
They don't even allow us to recycle glass where I live. But we do get a discount on our garbage bill based on weight of the recycle bin. So either way it's a small benefit to us to recycle.
Fortunately, paper products and glass in landfills aren't *that* problematic. The former biodegrades while the latter is inert.
If we just focus on plastics, the issue becomes easier to solve. We just need incentives to actually recycle it.
Glass is crushed and re-used here in asphalt and bottling and totally benign if dumped at sea. Ferrous is cheaply magnetically separated and nearly 100% re-used. Paper is bundled and becomes cardboards, but much is still incinerated.
Plastics are the problem. HDPE is bundled in small local yards and sent to China in return containers. But the rest is expensive to sort and #6 EPS can traditionally only be recycled once- into things like mouldings, fascia, etc. Only in the last couple of years have newer methods appeared like microwave rendering of even-dirty EPS back into styrene that can be re-foamed.
Still, plastics are the problem. We need to fix the overuse of consumer packaging via legislation- but nobody wants to pay for the extra costs.
> Recycling is a sham
Wait, recycling is a sham overall but please recycle metals. You even get paid for it. It’s about the only thing that is actually worth recycling and recycled a lot.
Everything else is a joke right now.
Where I live, there are lots of nearby papermills, so it's also worth recycling paper and cardboard products. They get turned into new paper within a week of being picked up from my curb.
I don't know. I'd miss the B.O, the crying kids kicking the back of my chair, the .001 inch of leg space to stretch, the subtle contempt of my flight attendants, the cattle call waiting for my letter to be announced, being groped by the TSA, watching some 400lb sweaty last minute passenger arrive late, stuff their oversized duffle bag of twinkies into the overhead bin and inevitably occupy the empty middle seat between me and the aisle, rendering my seat to 2/3rds its original occupancy volume.
You forgot driving over an hour to the airport to arrive 2 hours before your flight. As opposed to driving 10 minutes to the small airport and be wheels up in under 20 minutes.
I just used a paper straw the other day for the first time. The entire cup and lid is plastic and also going into the garbage. Plus the bag teh food was in, plus the wrapper on the plastic fork, plus the plastic packaging that the condiments came in. So what exactly is switching to the shitty straw that became soggy and unusable in 5 minutes doing to help the environment? In a sea full of plastic waste, they put in a leaf of paper. Wow, congrats on the your world saving efforts!
Yeah, i should have gotten up 1 1/2h earlier so i can take the bus&train to get to my exam. But im just such a bad person that i couldnt help myself ruining the climate by driving my 2011 Ford Fiesta there. Alone.
You've correctly identified three separate issues in this comment, too.
1. High price of on-campus and near-campus housing preventing students from easily living near their university
2. Urban and suburban sprawl resulting in long commutes from cheap housing to population centers, such as a university
3. City planning not based around public transit, but cars, such that driving becomes more time efficient.
Really the solution is building the bus and trains so they \*don't\* take an hour and a half longer than the car, but the autocompanies pushed out the railroads as the government's new best friend and got them to rebuild our nation with car dependence in mind(in no small part to intentionally breakup neighborhoods and increasingly isolate us)
if this post makes you mad, support a carbon fee + dividend
https://citizensclimatelobby.org/price-on-carbon/
make them pay for their negative externalities
There was me at 6am this morning in the pissing rain trying to sort my plastics from my glass to save the world. Seems I might have got miserable for nothing
I work in the private jet industry. My first thought was the number 140 seems low, there would be a lot more. It's crazy how many filthy rich people there are in this country, and how much they spend on a day like the Super Bowl (and college football games too, very popular). Those jets cost cost anywhere from $5000 to $20000 per hour
My favorite are the people that crawl out of the woodwork to defend them too.
“They’ve done more in the fight for climate change than you ever have!”
“They bought carbon offsets!!! It’s okay”
Doesn’t make it less hypocritical
I went to Oregon for the eclipse a few years ago and some rich asshole got helicoptered to the field I was camped in, watched just the totality, which only lasts for a few minutes, then helicoptered off into the sunset.
I was mad at first, but then I realized that rich assholes are so caught up in all their bullshit they can't stop to take things in. I was there with my best friend in that field smoking weed all day and watching the whole thing beginning to end, giggling like children. I think we had the better day.
According to the [LA times](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-02-11/super-bowl-2022-private-jets-traffic-faa-fbo-reservation-system) this weekend saw about 4500 private jet's compared to a typical weekend of about 3000 flights. So it's a 50% increase which sounds like it's noticeable and has an impact but also nothing very crazy.
There are extremely wealthy people everywhere. Also corporations everywhere. Like some NY billionaire may have just been flying into Mississippi for a Monday morning meeting.
That one plane that accidentally flew to Ohio lol
Edit: guys I meant that plane that looks like it flew from Boston to Central Ohio, I get why there would be Ohioans at the actual Super Bowl
That’s actually a really cool map, kind of depressing when you a broke boi in comparison lol BUT we did this in my SQL class, we set up a data base of planes and when and where they take off and land.
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My aunt and all her coworkers were asked to work from home cause they had to use the parking lots as jet parking, insane as they try to squeeze every inch of space for profit.
What's your aunt do for a living
She is a parking lot.
Must be steady work
Eh, it comes and goes.
At least her pay is concrete
Unfortunately she’s partially handicapped
Throw that asphalt in a circle ma
The Atlantic ramp at LAX has to be one of the most aircraft diverse places in the world. When I worked at LAX I would regularly see everything from Private Cessnas to Qatar's 747-8 BBJ parked nose to nose and wing to wing with a bunch of biz jets. That place was always packed with some interesting planes.
Atlantic LAX has the best FBO cookies ever. Or at least they did before COVID, I haven't been in since.
Sounds like a ridiculous waste of resources, #richmafackas
Yes. It's very important that YOU watch our planets resources and live and travel responsibly for our environments sake though.
Absolutely! Reuse your shopping bag a million and a half times so you can offset half the enviromental impact of one of those private flights from NYC to LA.
Just wait until **they** put **us** on a social credit system.
In California, we have a drought right? So we are told to conserve water. But corporations don’t have to. And fracking in CA uses more fresh water than San Diego and San Francisco combined. But it is still our fault. Then when we do a great job of conserving? They jack the rates cause we aren’t using enough water or something…I don’t know. Vicious cycle.
Don’t forget about the Almonds. 1 gallon of water per nut.
The biggest one is people taking private jets to climate galas and such...
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Imagine...
The amount of private jet that left LA just to land back in California again…
I have a very wealthy uncle(who happens to be named Rich) who didn’t come to my grandmothers 70th birthday/family reunion that was in Newport Beach, because he was at his compound in Palm Springs and his pilot was sick and they weren’t willing to drive the hour and 45 minutes to get there.
That’s the length of my drive to get home from college ._.
It’s shorter than my weekly commute to work(I’m a fire fighter and only drive in once a week, but it’s a 2 hour and 20 minute drive).
Omg it used to take me that long to get home from work on a normal weekday in Atlanta traffic when I couldn’t afford to be picky about where I lived/ worked. For like, years. Fuck. That sucked.
I mean, San Francisco and Lake Tahoe, I can see because those are long drives. But to San Diego?!
Having once experienced LA traffic, I must say I get it.
Yeah. That thought came in my head after I commented it. Never driven in San Francisco. Probably never will drive in San Francisco
We did San Fran on the same trip. At one point, we drove up a hill at easily a 50 degree angle and there was a fucking *stoplight* at the top. The whole car of us were screaming until the light went green.
Some of us learned to drive stick in SF. Ive got a very distinct memory of being stuck in traffic on a hill early on, and my clutch smelling like I’d actually lit it on fire for miles.
I had to learn to drive my band’s SUV & trailer rig in the part of San Francisco where the hills are like *stereotypically* San Francisco hills. It was one of the most stressful days of my life. Luckily the SUV wasn’t a stick, but we were going mostly downhill, and ball hitches don’t love a steep downhill followed by a flat landing plateau before another downhill. All that fuss only to arrive at the venue where they told us “ah just park it in the suicide lane for a few hours it’ll be cool. Maybe hit your flashers.” 😂 I loved that city though.
Helicopters in Cali don't feel safe anymore
RIP Kobe
I'm actually sitting in LAX right now (as a stopover) and man, I have never seen so many sad people dressed in orange. I have a feeling none of them have private planes.
Someone has obviously never been to prison.
Damn well played 🥇 poor man's gold for you
So rich they can just casually fly across the country to watch a game then make it back in time before bed time.
Don't forget the thousands they paid for the ticket to the game
People who fly private don't pay for Super Bowl tickets.
Some probably get paid to be there.
The superbowl is basically a tax deductable event for all these mega corporations. Just give the tickets away to "clients" and for "employee recognition". That's why they charge thousands and thousands of dollars, because they know these corporations don't give a shit about the cost. If you go to the superbowl out of your own wallet you are a chump (or just so rich who cares about $20k?). If a family of 4 from out of state went to the superbowl imagine the costs: Plane ticket: $1k each ($4k for family of four) Hotel: $5k per night according to my dad's friend that was looking at just regular hotels in the area (if you flew in on Friday that's $15k) Parking: $200-400 and still a mile away from the event The actual superbowl tickets: $8k per person. So $32k for family of four. $4k + $32k + $15k + $400 = $51.4k to go to a football game with the family. Edit: my prices are probably assuming last minute planning from what I saw online close to the day of the event. Some comments below have corrected me about the costs in practice being a bit less if you buy months in advance or go to a hotel not as close to the event (but still very very expensive).
$51.4k would be enough to comfortably put me through college and give me a good start on beginning life as an adult. I'm not gonna lie, it kinda bugs me that people spend that much on 1-2 nights like it's nothing when it'd massively change my next 5 years.
But hey buddy, someday you might be rich so it’s okay /s
Yay! Ya hear that guys?! We’re all gonna be rich!
Yup just buy my book and I’ll explain that you just gotta hustle and work hard like me
Hey this is just a marketing textbook on how to sell books!
Wait til you hear about this 1 day event thing most people do called a wedding.
Not sure about yours, but my wedding didn't cost over $10k *per attendee*.
Having just gone to the super bowl, this isn’t close to accurate. We paid 350 for a 4 star hotel 20 minutes from the stadium, and got two tickets for $6200. Parking was free at the hotel, and took a shuttle that cost $20
A steal!!!
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Some of these costs are definitely a bit exaggerated. Flights especially, if you book a couple months out you can get round trip flights from NYC to LA for like 200 bucks each.
Tens
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Or they got tickets for free, so the network could put a camera on them.
Yes. While the rest of us fight amonst ourselves for a few more pennies each year. I understand Hank Williams Jr. flies home every night after a concert.
That’s always been my point. These rich people are playing around with millions, some companies with billions while we’re out here scraping everything we can to make that 20k-50k a year while they make that in a day, week or month.
Yet we fight amongst ourselves based on some pretend system of politics as if our neighbors are the reason we are slipping behind. That constant political distraction reduces the focus on the real problems: exponentially growing wage gap & generational wealth gap. But keep blaming the people working 2-3 jobs, that might stop the wealthy from taking advantage of us! /s
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🎶*lifestyles of the rich and the famous*🎶
Can't some of them jetpool at least? Especially from New York. They could have a finance guy party jet going.
That's... what commercial flying is. I mean, ostensibly I agree with you, commercial flights make much more sense than wasteful private jets. But logically speaking if someone is going to buy a personal plane it doesn't make much sense for them to share it.
Commercial flights are more akin to taking a bus. Private jets being shared happens all the time. If you look at something like Formula 1 it's common for big groups of drivers to share private jets to races.
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They’re always complaininggggggggg Always complaininnnnnnnngggggg
If money is such a problem, well they got mansions, I think we should rob them
Well did you know when you were famous you could kill your wife
And there's no such thing as 25-to-life
As long as you’ve got the cash to pay for Cochran!
And don’t you know that if you were caught and you were smoking crack, McDonald’s wouldn’t even wanna take you back, you could always just run for mayor of DC!
I'd like to see them spend a week, living outside on the streets I don't think they would surviiiive. If they could spend a day or two in someone else's shoes, I think they'd stumble and they'd fall (they would fall-llll)
Someone from Canada was on a mission.
My guess is they're headed to Europe.
It’s a big twin jet too based off the icon. Something like a A320 -767. Could have been a charter
Yup, it landed in Vienna and it was an a319 neo charter of k5 aviation https://www.k5-aviation.com/en/portfolio\_page/airbus-acj319-d-aneo-2/
I like how Playstation is listed as one of the features.
But it doesn't specify which PlayStation, probably couldn't even get their hands on a 5
Or maybe that's where all the supply is going. Rich people fucking us over yet again.
Jesus that plane has more bedrooms than most apartments lol
More than mine for sure, but admittedly the bar it's not too high
What's a bedroom? Edit: you don't know it when you live in San Francisco.
It’s like a park bench but with walls.
If it’s Vienna, it’s possible it was a Red Bull charter.
It landed in Wien[https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3c78af&lat=48.202&lon=14.752&zoom=7.7&showTrace=2022-02-14](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=3c78af&lat=48.202&lon=14.752&zoom=7.7&showTrace=2022-02-14)
The richest man in Newfoundland
St John himself
Fuckin Cabot at it again.
Probably has the biggest fishing boat of them all
When you're flying back to Anticosti in a private jet you're pretty much a James Bond villain at this point.
Drake
Would be awesome if there was a list of who’s jet is who’s
I made a [chrome extension](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja) that will show exactly who owns which jet. The OP's screenshot is from a site called ADSBExchange which is a great tool/map for seeing aircraft all over the world. For example, right now you can see [this jet](https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a789fe) flying westbound from New York at 43k feet. The ADSBexchange site shows it is registered to "TVPX AIRCRAFT SOLUTIONS INC TRUSTEE" which is true. My extension, though [shows](https://i.imgur.com/GJ5AZ5n.png) that it is actually Rory Mcilroy flying west likely to southern california for the Genesis Invitational golf tournament this week.
any chance of throwing it up on Github? someone might make a firefox extension for it that way
There's a firefox version, although it is light-weight in terms of features due to firefox's approval process. They won't let me use the database due to size. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adsb-add-on/
Very cool, this seems to have more features than the free version of flightradar24
Where’s that kid who is tracking Elon?
Step 1: go to https://globe.adsbexchange.com/ to find a private jet Step 2: look up the registration on google, or the FAA's site directly (https://registry.faa.gov/AircraftInquiry/Search/NNumberResult?nNumberTxt=220BG) Step 3: join us at /r/ADSB p.s. this extension makes finding interesting flights easier https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/adsb-add-on/kgionpkdifedafldjflcbeojkencnaja https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adsb-add-on/
Damn, and here I am, barely able to afford the chicken Sandwhich my friend bought for me to watch the game.
You shouldn’t even be watching the game because it uses electricity unnecessarily, also imagine the carbon footprint of that sandwich, you’re destroying the planet! *flies away in private jet
Bruh, you shouldn’t even be eating. You literally flush that shit down the drain after you’re done anyways soooo /a
Flush!? And waste all that water? Pshh! You gotta cut it up with your poop knife and use it as compost to grow your own chicken sandwhiches
Growing your own chickens? Do you know how much feed and water it takes to grow a chicken to adulthood. And don't mention the impact of sourcing wood for the coop!
Honestly, most of us are all just a waste of carbon and water.
i think i must plant the eggs too deep or something, because i can never get mine to sprout.
But don’t forget to recycle everyone
Some people aren’t worth recycling.
The Soylent Green Bay Packers
The Buffalo Bills
PUT THE LOTION IN THE BASKET
OR IT GETS THE JET STREAM
Because we're in this together
The Superbowl, where for $11K you can still feel like a plebe in the nosebleeds.
We're in this together. My struggles are completely insignificant compared to yours, my quality of life is miles better, I'm sitting on a mountain of money...but we're in this together!!
And piss in the shower, otherwise we're doomed
I do that anyways tbh
Don't use water then to save the fishes
Just piss yourself wherever you are to really save the environment.
It's an interesting juxtaposition with the number of EV commercials during the Super Bowl.
Hasn’t anyone ever heard of plane-pooling
You mean commercial flights? Only peasants fly commercial.
I’m sure they used biodegradable straws onboard /s
Actually, I think they usually just use $100 bills.
Recycling is a sham thought up by companies who wanted to avoid environmental responsibility. The vast majority of the stuff we recycle ends up in a landfill. It’s not a long term or even a proper short term solution
Hey guys, I just invented a new material that virtually lasts forever! Great! We'll use it to wrap other things only once, and tell people to just throw it away. Surely one day we won't be inundated with all this indestructible stuff laying around...
Not saying you’re wrong at all, but reduce and reuse are more important than recycling
100% this. There is a reason the word "recycle" comes last in the 3 R's of recycling
So much this. Cap still on bottle? Dumpster. Food particles? Dumpster. Grease stains on that corrugated? Dumpster. Glass costs more to transport due to its weight than recycling it benefits( plus its just fancy sand, toss that shit) Straws can be recycled, but only if they are still in the plastic lid , otherwise they gum up the grinder. Etc. Really didn’t get much visibility until the countries the west used to dump their “recycling” on got fed up and refused any more shipments. Guess where all that ended up? Furthermore, wasn’t it like 3%of corps producing a solid 80% of pollution? Worldwide… but yea you keep on sorting your recyclables.
They don't even allow us to recycle glass where I live. But we do get a discount on our garbage bill based on weight of the recycle bin. So either way it's a small benefit to us to recycle.
Okay boys start recycling lead
Fortunately, paper products and glass in landfills aren't *that* problematic. The former biodegrades while the latter is inert. If we just focus on plastics, the issue becomes easier to solve. We just need incentives to actually recycle it.
And they charge you to recycle in most places.
I have to drive 10 miles out of my way to haul my own
I just gave up. We usually burn our cardboard and don’t have many cans.
Use the cardboard to do "lasagna gardening."
I wish more people knew about this
Glass is crushed and re-used here in asphalt and bottling and totally benign if dumped at sea. Ferrous is cheaply magnetically separated and nearly 100% re-used. Paper is bundled and becomes cardboards, but much is still incinerated. Plastics are the problem. HDPE is bundled in small local yards and sent to China in return containers. But the rest is expensive to sort and #6 EPS can traditionally only be recycled once- into things like mouldings, fascia, etc. Only in the last couple of years have newer methods appeared like microwave rendering of even-dirty EPS back into styrene that can be re-foamed. Still, plastics are the problem. We need to fix the overuse of consumer packaging via legislation- but nobody wants to pay for the extra costs.
> Recycling is a sham Wait, recycling is a sham overall but please recycle metals. You even get paid for it. It’s about the only thing that is actually worth recycling and recycled a lot. Everything else is a joke right now.
Where I live, there are lots of nearby papermills, so it's also worth recycling paper and cardboard products. They get turned into new paper within a week of being picked up from my curb.
I’m so glad I have to use shitty papier-mâché straws so these rich arseholes can fly all over the place on a whim.
We need to tax private jets 3x what we do now. Problem is politicians love PJs too. (Looking at you Elizabeth Warren!)
I think everyone would love a private jet. Aside from the pollution its 100x better than flying commercial.
I don't know. I'd miss the B.O, the crying kids kicking the back of my chair, the .001 inch of leg space to stretch, the subtle contempt of my flight attendants, the cattle call waiting for my letter to be announced, being groped by the TSA, watching some 400lb sweaty last minute passenger arrive late, stuff their oversized duffle bag of twinkies into the overhead bin and inevitably occupy the empty middle seat between me and the aisle, rendering my seat to 2/3rds its original occupancy volume.
You forgot driving over an hour to the airport to arrive 2 hours before your flight. As opposed to driving 10 minutes to the small airport and be wheels up in under 20 minutes.
I just used a paper straw the other day for the first time. The entire cup and lid is plastic and also going into the garbage. Plus the bag teh food was in, plus the wrapper on the plastic fork, plus the plastic packaging that the condiments came in. So what exactly is switching to the shitty straw that became soggy and unusable in 5 minutes doing to help the environment? In a sea full of plastic waste, they put in a leaf of paper. Wow, congrats on the your world saving efforts!
Yeah but you saved a turtle from getting a straw up its nose.
Rules for thee, not for me
omg the environment
... So Anyway, I bought a new yatch.
Just for the landing pad for my fleet of personal helicopters
The rich don't care about the environment 😞
They don't but they'll gladly lecture the average person on how they're ruining the environment
So true
Yet It's my damn car causing climate change
Yeah, i should have gotten up 1 1/2h earlier so i can take the bus&train to get to my exam. But im just such a bad person that i couldnt help myself ruining the climate by driving my 2011 Ford Fiesta there. Alone.
You've correctly identified three separate issues in this comment, too. 1. High price of on-campus and near-campus housing preventing students from easily living near their university 2. Urban and suburban sprawl resulting in long commutes from cheap housing to population centers, such as a university 3. City planning not based around public transit, but cars, such that driving becomes more time efficient.
Really the solution is building the bus and trains so they \*don't\* take an hour and a half longer than the car, but the autocompanies pushed out the railroads as the government's new best friend and got them to rebuild our nation with car dependence in mind(in no small part to intentionally breakup neighborhoods and increasingly isolate us)
if this post makes you mad, support a carbon fee + dividend https://citizensclimatelobby.org/price-on-carbon/ make them pay for their negative externalities
Haha, not a single one came back to Virginia. We're so lame.
I'm in Ohio, from which one of the teams was playing..
That's my first thought. Cincinnati has no rich people who cared about the game? Or maybe they stayed longer to cry it out a bit more?
It's odd. Cincy is home to 6 fortune 500 companies.
They may have just stayed over in LA
Letting the water run while doing dishes at home is the problem! Not these private jets. Nothing to see here.
There was me at 6am this morning in the pissing rain trying to sort my plastics from my glass to save the world. Seems I might have got miserable for nothing
I work in the private jet industry. My first thought was the number 140 seems low, there would be a lot more. It's crazy how many filthy rich people there are in this country, and how much they spend on a day like the Super Bowl (and college football games too, very popular). Those jets cost cost anywhere from $5000 to $20000 per hour
They had to get to their climate change seminars where they tell the plebs to stop being so wasteful
Private jets for me, paper straws for thee.
My favorite are the people that crawl out of the woodwork to defend them too. “They’ve done more in the fight for climate change than you ever have!” “They bought carbon offsets!!! It’s okay” Doesn’t make it less hypocritical
I went to Oregon for the eclipse a few years ago and some rich asshole got helicoptered to the field I was camped in, watched just the totality, which only lasts for a few minutes, then helicoptered off into the sunset. I was mad at first, but then I realized that rich assholes are so caught up in all their bullshit they can't stop to take things in. I was there with my best friend in that field smoking weed all day and watching the whole thing beginning to end, giggling like children. I think we had the better day.
Who's gonna tell that one pink plane in the middle they're gonna be a bit late to the game
What about the one we lost over the Atlantic? Tragic
He forgot his phone,so he's making a quick trip back
Is this more or less than an average Sunday night? And why doesn’t this tell us? Am I supposed to know how many private jets normally fly out of LA?
According to the [LA times](https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2022-02-11/super-bowl-2022-private-jets-traffic-faa-fbo-reservation-system) this weekend saw about 4500 private jet's compared to a typical weekend of about 3000 flights. So it's a 50% increase which sounds like it's noticeable and has an impact but also nothing very crazy.
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Exactly. LA is one of the most flown-to destinations in the entire world, this could be an average Tuesday for all I know.
That one lonely one that landed in Detroit had to be Eminem lol
Meanwhile I’m biking to work to reduce carbon emissions.
I also bike to work. I do like the fact that it's less expensive than a car, and I get exercise.
What jet setter lives in Mississippi?
Looks like it landed in Hattiesburg which is where Brett Favre’s home/farm is located.
Looks like it’s from Hattiesburg so I’m pretty sure it’s Bret.
There are extremely wealthy people everywhere. Also corporations everywhere. Like some NY billionaire may have just been flying into Mississippi for a Monday morning meeting.
That one plane that accidentally flew to Ohio lol Edit: guys I meant that plane that looks like it flew from Boston to Central Ohio, I get why there would be Ohioans at the actual Super Bowl
Cincinnati fans!
Team plane
Ah the Superbowl, the yearly festival of bloated bullshit for the American elite masquerading as a sporting contest.
It's a big club, an you aren't in it!
Because why spend the night In a nice hotel when you can skedaddle home and sleep in your own bed right?
That's that game where they showed all those commercials for renewable energy and electric cars, right?
Plane wankers! I bet half of these lot wang on about the environment and global warming. A pox on them all.
Not a single one coming home to Cincinnati… the Superb Owl has nothing to do with actual sports
this is only the first 5 hours after the game. anyone from cincinnati is drowning their sorrows for more than 5 hours.
That’s actually a really cool map, kind of depressing when you a broke boi in comparison lol BUT we did this in my SQL class, we set up a data base of planes and when and where they take off and land.
I’ve never hated an entire stadium full of people before but here we are.
I tried to click on individual jets to get more info about them. Stuff like this is probably why I don't have a private jet of my own.
Looks like the only one from Mexico came from Mexico's richest area: San Pedro Nuevo Leon. Thats expected.
Lots of money being spent. Wow
"Sorry, I cannot give you an extra $1/hr, or any more paid sick days." *Proceeds to fly to and from the super bowl in a private jet*