• solsangraal
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    2 days ago

    this is always the question. and the answer is if i can’t get there in time by not flying, then so sorry, i won’t be able to attend. i don’t fly, because fuck literally everything involved with flying. which apparently now also includes bogus customer service phone numbers

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      2 days ago

      Great you have that option, most people don’t.

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        2 days ago

        most people don’t.

        i’m sorry that you have such limited control over your own life that you have no choice but to fly. my point stands

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          2 days ago

          In general, it is much faster and much cheaper to cross an ocean by plane than by boat.

          Do you think if someone lives in Brazil but their family lives in Indonesia, they should drive across South America, charter a boat and then take it across the Pacific rather than just buy a plane ticket?

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            2 days ago

            everyone is free to travel however they choose. i choose no flying. yes it takes longer. but i’m not dealing with delayed flights, canceled flights, luggage limits, luggage fees, lost luggage, destroyed luggage, airport “limos,” airport parking, absurdly overpriced everything, hourslong layovers, tiny seats that are filthy with dried up mystery condiments, screaming infants, and everything else i left out that is all bullshit

            so yea, if it ever occurs that i just have to go overseas at some point for some reason, it’ll be on a boat.

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              2 days ago

              Up until now, this has not been about what you personally choose. In fact, it has to do with what the person’s wife in the image I pasted chose.

              Maybe she’s going from Brazil to Indonesia to visit her dying father and she doesn’t have six weeks to get there by boat, or the (according to my searching) approximately $60,000 it would cost to charter that boat.

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                2 days ago

                it was intended as a snide remark, not as a “no one should ever fly for any reason,” but i see that it does come off that way. my apologies.