• solsangraal
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    24 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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      24 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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        24 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.