• KeenFlame@feddit.nu
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    2 days ago

    I mean an Atlantic round trip fully laden, yah but that’s just even economical compared to private jet travel, which completely defeats the purpose of the shock value number

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      1 day ago

      Everything about private jet travel is shock value inefficient if you compare it to “normal people” CO2 emissions.

      A friend won a $14M lottery payout, he didn’t go for planes but he liked boats, so it’s to be expected that he buys a couple of boats. The boats themselves weren’t so impressive maybe twice the size of my Uncle’s boat, what was impressive was going out for a day-trip fishing with him… and burning 800 gallons of fuel. Sure, we went a little farther than my Uncle’s boat could go in a day just because the lotto win boat is faster, but a day fishing pretty similar fish with my uncle? 10-20 gallons of gas if we’re trolling (which we weren’t in lotto win boat), 3-5 gallons if we just run around and anchor and chum like we normally do.

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        1 day ago

        Man, your uncle sounds awesome.I really hope one day a reckoning of some kind will spear through both money and friendship and family and land on — oops we ended humans as a species and also brought with us the most gorgeous environment in existence.