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Quack makes a Swift escape (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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A shorter version of my latest column

-Hayes Brown, Bluesky

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Panel one: [off-screen] Fox News: Taylor Swift's plane is emitting soo much carbon Angry Goose: Why are carbon emissions bad? Panel 2: [Man labeled Fox News being chased] Goose: Explain why carbon emissions are bad, coward!!!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

But that's not the rational action - we need to build faster trains and fly less.

[–] Tattorack 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Trains don't cross oceans.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

not yet

[–] force 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

not until we turn the kremlin into a pile of dust and bones. after that we can have all the transcontinental rail we want. except for to antarctica and oceania but fuck those guys

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, but there are some speeds at which airplanes are quite efficient. One thing would also be to make large airplanes slower, to reduce energy costs. In general trains though yeah. China is building a lot of high speed rail.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

And private jets ain't one of them