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Hehe, I remember doing stuff like wearing 8 t-shirts back in the day to try and travel for £1 around Europe. Currently feel like I'm living on the edge by 1-ba
by gaiagraphia 5mo ago
Hehe, I remember doing stuff like wearing 8 t-shirts back in the day to try and travel for £1 around Europe.
Currently feel like I'm living on the edge by 1-bagging an Osprey Farpoint 40. My heart races every time I'm at the gate, and I feel I've perfected a masterclass in illusion by angling my body, distracting the gate staff, moving my hands to draw attention, etc (note: I probably look like an idiot - but it's fun to dream).
The optimal solution is just to weigh everybody as they board the plane and bill them accordingly, lol. But I don't think that'd go down too well.
If these jackets can hold 5kg, and there's 200 passengers donning them, that's a ton of weight, which is about $100 per flight in extra fuel?
Wonder if the fairest way to charge for this is aa ringfenced externality tax on the product itself; calculating the average amount of fuel such products burn in an average lifespan. Would be preferable to airlines dictating what you can and can't wear...
- genxy 5mo agoThe next one will be a body suit so you end up looking like Santa Claus.
- Qem 5mo agoNext would be taxing airways and using the resources to subsidize the costs of GLP class drugs, as they benefit directly from customer weight loss.
- TomatoCo 5mo agoVaguely reminds me of that planet in Hitchhiker's Guide that started to lose too much mass to tourists leaving. So, > Thus today the net balance between the amount you eat and the amount you excrete while on the planet is surgically removed from your body weight when you leave; so every time you go to the lavatory there, it is vitally important to get a receipt.
- netsharc 5mo agoMeanwhile Dubai exports its shit: https://medium.com/@sohaibwaheed06/explaining-dubais-poop-problem-fcc62cd11890 https://medium.com/@sohaibwaheed06/explaining-dubais-poop-pr... I looked up videos on YouTube about this topic, but the few that I clicked were AI slop with the prompt of something like "Generate a video from the contents of this article, use clip art videos and English male narration".