Post AVDWc2QWahuUyV5eVM by timrburnham@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AVDVcv8R5T5EhAUClU by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
       2023-05-01T16:41:48Z
       
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       "Private jet sales likely to reach highest ever level this year, report says"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/01/private-jet-sales-likely-to-reach-highest-ever-level-this-year-report-saysI don't understand how a story like this can go out without at least a mention of how an ongoing global pandemic might possibly incentivize high net-worth individuals to try to minimize their exposure by flying private
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDWc2QWahuUyV5eVM by timrburnham@mastodon.social
       2023-05-01T16:52:36Z
       
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       @simon ...while telling the rest of us, "pandemic's over, back to work!"
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDWoyHNK57rsMyfaa by thisismissem@hachyderm.io
       2023-05-01T16:55:00Z
       
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       @simon that and how using a private jet is environmentally damaging as fuck.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDX1EsBSC9Eoc2nTc by cozymel@kolektiva.social
       2023-05-01T16:56:25Z
       
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       @simon see image #1: https://hachyderm.io/@Adorable_Sergal/110279649114031029
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDXTX7PD8WJVkeiie by wordshaper@weatherishappening.network
       2023-05-01T17:02:14Z
       
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       @simon Private jets and luxury yachts should be banned by international convention. They're a climate abomination.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDcBHyJHqPb5oWNQO by xek@hachyderm.io
       2023-05-01T17:54:32Z
       
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       @simon What pandemic?  It's over!!  Even in SF, the only people wearing masks are the little old Asian ladies on Muni (who were wearing them before the pandemic) and some weirdos who won't shut up about their fixation with staring sewage or something like that. 🤷‍♀️(This reminds me, I still need to call my parents and explain why we won't be visiting them at their new house in Tennessee any time soon…)
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDcS25zZDJmmE6AVc by simon@fedi.simonwillison.net
       2023-05-01T17:58:10Z
       
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       @xek it's frustratingly lonely still understanding that the pandemic is a thing
       
 (DIR) Post #AVDecSwymDcUrwzA9I by xek@hachyderm.io
       2023-05-01T18:18:52Z
       
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       @simon Indeed.  And I bet you didn't even break up with your partner six months in, after lockdowns made a cross-bay relationship without a car "long distance" and basically untenable. 😂