It’s not even that long & it would’ve been fun to have a roadtrip. Flew the jet for ~1h instead. Useless pollution.
48 hours in a weekend; you lose 16 sleeping, 32 awake hours.
2 hours for travel is 6% of your weekend
6 hours for travel is 19% of your weekend
That’s 19% of your time spent with your friends on the bus.
It’s not the destination bruh, like it’s the journey.
I did the Philadelphia to Boston trip by plane once (I live in Central New Jersey), only because I had a business meeting at 12 PM. The Acela doesn’t stop in Trenton, so while I preferred the train waking up at 5am didn’t appeal to me. If I go again I’ll prioritize the train. City pairs in US that should have high speed rail: https://youtu.be/wE5G1kTndI4
Are you upset that they drove? Flew? Why is either bad here?
I don’t understand what you’re upset about.
Private jet instead of public transit
It looks like the wealthy friend flew instead of driving down or taking the bus down with their friends. They’re upset because it’s just more useless pollution and a loss of time that the friend group could have spent together having a good experience.
Why spend several hours with friends when you could spend an hour alone on a jet
Yeah, even a car wouldn’t have been the most horrible choice in comparison. And those are fun, while not as fun as a train where you can all partake instead of one having to drive. Unless it’s just the two of you, then a car would be a waste and also not very fun since the other’s focused on driving.
I wish nothing but the worst for your friend.
You should kill your friend with a hammer in the woods on your weekend trip.
You should seek help. It’s not ok to suggest people should murder their friends. They should simply not be their friend if this bothers them.
Actually murder is a good thing if the victim is unpopular
In fact, he’s morally obligated to murder his friend with a hammer in the woods.
You should suck my fucking balls.
In the woods?
As long as you don’t mind the sight of blood. I heard some guy got killed with a hammer there!
So what you’re saying is that you can’t murder your friends so stop being friends? I like what you did there.
Im suggesting you shouldn’t murder anyone.
I thought they would have went there with their own car, but nope, even worse.
Can’t stand to travel with the poors I guess.
IANACS but I think the levels of pollution are actually similar.
If you replace a short haul flight with a ride on a train you could easily cut carbon emissions by 75% Source
Interesting! Thanks for the source.
It looks like short haul flights actually produce 12% less emissions than driving.
That is mostly because those numbers take the average occupancy level into account. Cars are rarely driven with a passenger in every available seat.
Half the fun of trips like that is the trip itself. See an interesting building or landmark along the way? Go check it out. Have an available seat? Pick up a hitchhiker.
Have an available seat? Pick up a hitchhiker.
If the hitchhiker looks sketchy, the rule is always pick them up.
In my cars with my friends, the hitchhikers are usually among the least sketchy looking.
#life goals
Journey before destination.
I’ve never met someone that wealthy, but wealth is way more relative than lower, middle and higher classes.
The wealthier people I’ve met kind of like to brag about their money. I’ve always guessed that is the way they behave among themselves. It’s never a direct competition about their wealth, it’s always a package of actions and prepositions from where anyone should or could conclude they are wealthy. Kind of passive-aggressive.
Maybe your friend is trying to do their wealthy people thing with you, guys, because that’s what he knows to do. Maybe you have to have a bit of patience with this friend. I get it, I’m poor, so they make so little sense to me. I just hope you can work it out, and remember, maybe that’s all they know, that’s why university is so important to those privileged enough to attend.
That’s despicable. I’d be absolutely disgusted by that behavior, and tell him in no uncertain terms. And tell him it would have been better to not come at all.
Tell him he smells too!
Remove them of their wealth and your friendship
In my experience no plane could compete with the comfort of a table seat in a train with friends.
you know if you have a jet, the “flight attendents” blow you and massage you all flight long. I’m not sure what your friends can do under the train table though so you might be right
A train handy is an underrated pleasure. Those occasional sways on the turns and random shakes and shimmies are to die for.
Private jet would outcompete anything, sadly
Found the non-American.
Thought for a minute you meant they drove instead of taking the bus or train and I’m like “Yeah, about the same to Seattle I don’t… OH. OH!”
By the time you get to the airport early, get through the lines, get through security theater, all the time you save is lost.
Private jets don’t have any of that. You just arrive, board and leave.
Wait, he took a PRIVATE jet instead?
Wow, he really seem to enjoy climate change.
Yes, that’s what I meant by jet… his answer to climate change is that the world will end anyway & we only have 1 life so who cares.
It is correct that we only have one life, but so does everyone else including children…
Why is his life so much more important than others?
Because he’s an asshole. We, as a society, ought to impose a penalty for such selfishness.
Why is his life so much more important than others?
He was born that way?
You, silly. He is extremely wealthy, didn’t you read?
I have seen perfectly pedestrian suburban white trash do this shit…
God forbid they take “public” transit… thats for the poors and minorities! disgusting
