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A train from Venice to Rome is €100 and takes four hours on the high speed or €50 and 8 hours on the normal train. Edit: Amtrak from SF to LA is $50 and takes 11 - 14 hours 
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FlapYoJacks posted:A train from Venice to Rome is €100 and takes four hours on the high speed or €50 and 8 hours on the normal train. high speed rail from shenzhen to beijing is 1000 RMB (about $150) and takes 8 and a half hours. thats about the same distance as miami to boston lol
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Apr 15, 2024 05:20
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tbf the cost of the train is only half the problem it's also that driving is extremely subsidized and incentivized, to the point where anyone who isn't driving some sub-30mpg behemoth can drive almost anywhere for dirt cheap, even with "high" gas prices
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Apr 15, 2024 05:25
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fart simpson posted:high speed rail from shenzhen to beijing is 1000 RMB (about $150) and takes 8 and a half hours. thats about the same distance as miami to boston lol America truly is a shithole country.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:29
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fart simpson posted:high speed rail from shenzhen to beijing is 1000 RMB (about $150) and takes 8 and a half hours. thats about the same distance as miami to boston lol 
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Apr 15, 2024 05:32
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Paradoxish posted:tbf the cost of the train is only half the problem
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Apr 15, 2024 05:35
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You are not catching me riding a domestic flight under 2 hours long. I would rather drive 10 hours than go through the hell that is american domestic air travel
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Apr 15, 2024 05:35
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Shipon posted:You are not catching me riding a domestic flight under 2 hours long. I would rather drive 10 hours than go through the hell that is american domestic air travel Seattle is the worst for international arrivals. The loving worst. Get off plane -> 10 minute walk -> Pick up your luggage -> customs -> TSA again -> Drop your luggage off again -> Get on your connection. Why the gently caress do you have to pick up your luggage? Or go through TSA? You’ve already been through the security in the country you are coming from! I don’t recall ever having to do that at any other airport but SEA.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:40
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Shipon posted:You are not catching me riding a domestic flight under 2 hours long. I would rather drive 10 hours than go through the hell that is american domestic air travel as lovely as it is, you can just tell yourself it's only like an hour of air-time and it's so ridiculously cheap and saves a lot of driving-time that loads of people do it although there's been something sick and perverse about american airport since 2020 -- just all burgeroids extremely mad, permanently melting down, main character and super self-entitlement syndromes, and hefty school-shooter vibes writ large. a dark cloudy mental sickness taken over like The Color Out of Space or lovecraftian novel granted, it was never what I'd call "pleasant" but it used to be a little more tranquil and just collective shrugging getting through the day with some baseline level of acknowledged-comraderic courtesy that air travel involve Xaris has issued a correction as of 05:45 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 05:40
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FlapYoJacks posted:Seattle is the worst for international arrivals. The loving worst. Get off plane -> 10 minute walk -> Pick up your luggage -> customs -> TSA again -> Drop your luggage off again -> Get on your connection. lol wtf when I travelled from Manila to Pune I had two connecting flights, first at Hong Kong and another at New Delhi, and I never had to interact with my luggage after dropping it off at Manila and it arrived at my last destination just fine. this plus all the horror stories of missing luggage during the 2022 holidays makes me really question traveling in/across America
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Apr 15, 2024 05:44
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FlapYoJacks posted:Seattle is the worst for international arrivals. The loving worst. Get off plane -> 10 minute walk -> Pick up your luggage -> customs -> TSA again -> Drop your luggage off again -> Get on your connection. It's really bad, especially the drop-off area. Nightmare going there at all.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:47
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one of the joys of being a dude is that you can fit at least 2-3 weeks into a carryon and lol if I trust any dipshit American airline to not lose my bag; I’m within reaching distance of my stuff at all times.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:48
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Apr 15, 2024 05:52
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Abner Assington posted:one of the joys of being a dude is that you can fit at least 2-3 weeks into a carryon and lol if I trust any dipshit American airline to not lose my bag; I’m within reaching distance of my stuff at all times.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:54
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What is the best Medicare supplemental plan and which is the scam? It’s been mentioned here before and I was trying to understand what coverage my parents have so I can recommend a change.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:55
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Abner Assington posted:one of the joys of being a dude is that you can fit at least 2-3 weeks into a carryon and lol if I trust any dipshit American airline to not lose my bag; I’m within reaching distance of my stuff at all times.   My standard equipment: - Satchel over the left shoulder with a switch, iPad, laptop, laptop charger, international charging brick, and a cord organizer - Carry on leather duffel bag on the right shoulder with up to three weeks of clothes. - Passport and important documents in a RFID blocking pouch around my neck and under the shirt. I don’t care if it’s goofy looking I’m not risking having them stolen. - Phone has a case that doubles as a wallet that’s in the front pocket at all times. Heck, you can have your clothes laundered at a hotel for cheaper than the cost of checked luggage these days.
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Apr 15, 2024 05:57
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gradenko_2000 posted:lol wtf when I travelled from Manila to Pune I had two connecting flights, first at Hong Kong and another at New Delhi, and I never had to interact with my luggage after dropping it off at Manila and it arrived at my last destination just fine. I should be clear: American airports are all different levels of bad, but SEA is really REALLY bad. At O’hare it’s the standard: Off the plane -> customs -> get on your connecting flight. err posted:It's really bad, especially the drop-off area. Nightmare going there at all. Why the gently caress are the bathrooms so far away from arrivals?! 
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Apr 15, 2024 06:00
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Apr 15, 2024 06:02
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Glumwheels posted:What is the best Medicare supplemental plan and which is the scam?
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Apr 15, 2024 06:03
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Xaris posted:yeah checked baggage is for rubes or direct-flight only. ive been carry-on only for 15 years and works well, i just budget buying a few additional clothes from H&M/Uniqlo/whatever cheap fashion store is there and/or maybe spending an hour at one of those combination laundry-coffee shops its also, unfortunately, for ppl going on a multi week international flight where when you arrive in boston they say oops sorry, we forgot to put your checked luggage on the airplan when you transferred in san francisco even tho u literally rechecked it and handed it to an airline employee in san fran
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Apr 15, 2024 06:05
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https://twitter.com/shagbark_hick/status/1779587283831685485
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Apr 15, 2024 06:13
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https://twitter.com/BradCLemley/status/1779617779785842764
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Apr 15, 2024 06:16
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FlapYoJacks posted:For comparison: Sending the billionaires to the Hague at that low of a price sounds like a steal tbh
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Apr 15, 2024 06:18
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has the automobile industry considered petitioning for a luxury tax for using a passenger train
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Apr 15, 2024 06:22
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wino erasure
palindrome has issued a correction as of 11:51 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 08:49
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FlapYoJacks posted:
nah most hotels will launder your clothes but charge you individually for each item (one i stayed at wanted to charge for each sock lol) but yeah just don’t be precious, just go to the local laundromat
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Apr 15, 2024 10:51
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shower with your clothes, hang it on the rod, blow fan on it. laundry
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Apr 15, 2024 11:11
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Jel Shaker posted:nah most hotels will launder your clothes but charge you individually for each item (one i stayed at wanted to charge for each sock lol) I did this once. It was silly expensive and they lost a bunch of stuff.
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Apr 15, 2024 11:25
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Xaris posted:
It’s emblematic of the antisocial tendencies that have run rife since Trump/covid/rise in general public talking to each other online. It’s just the airport is a force multiplier. It’s one of the few major institutions that is specifically NOT run for its Customer Experience. It’s unapologetically overpriced. It has objectively gotten horrible in a generations time. But most importantly, it is the only real melting pot left in America. Unless you are super wealthy, CHUDS are going to stand in line with a bunch of people they feel they’re inherently better than. And it doesn’t matter how many mortgage sized truck payments or underwater housing units or how many promotions their dad has given them. They’re gonna have to stand next to a black person and wait for a brown woman to say they can fly. Plus, the actual wealthy abandoned airports some time ago, so the lunpenproles also get reminded that past the lifted truck and Cabelas sweatshirt they’re way closer to the bottom than they are to the top.
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Apr 15, 2024 11:56
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https://twitter.com/PaulSkallas/status/1779598081073311863
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Apr 15, 2024 12:07
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Thanks, I hate it.
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Apr 15, 2024 12:10
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congrats to Flapyojacks
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Apr 15, 2024 12:13
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FlapYoJacks posted:That and Kale or Avocado toast. I think it was ascribed to people who order it in restaurants where I’ve legit seen it 8-10 dollars, and that’s in LA where sourcing avocados isn’t a problem at all.
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Apr 15, 2024 12:23
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RealityWarCriminal posted:congrats to Flapyojacks
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Apr 15, 2024 12:25
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fart simpson posted:high speed rail from shenzhen to beijing is 1000 RMB (about $150) and takes 8 and a half hours. thats about the same distance as miami to boston lol I took a train from Beijing to Shenzhen in 2002 and it was overnight . in 22 years passenger rail in the USA ain’t gonna change much. sonatinas has issued a correction as of 12:37 on Apr 15, 2024 |
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Apr 15, 2024 12:34
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skooma512 posted:I think it was ascribed to people who order it in restaurants where I’ve legit seen it 8-10 dollars, and that’s in LA where sourcing avocados isn’t a problem at all. id do this at hotel breakfast on business trips (pre covid). wasting company money rules
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Apr 15, 2024 12:39
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TIL time zones are a thing
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Apr 15, 2024 12:41
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most EU countries have axed their so-called Golden Passport programs in the past 3 years (or are in the process), as it contributed to hypergentrification. Malta still has it though Italy and Greece have golden visas starting at €500k
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Apr 15, 2024 13:09
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Been getting this guy on TikTok recently and he's right that Goodwill and most other secondhand shops have gone bananas with their pricing on things most people wouldn't even take for free. I used to do a lot of shopping at stores like this but ever since people have discovered the game of flipping "vintage" poo poo on Etsy for huge markups pretty much all of these shops have gotten wise and adjusted their prices accordingly. https://www.tiktok.com/embed/7345630381833522475
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Apr 15, 2024 13:14
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FlapYoJacks posted:That and Kale or Avocado toast. the crime, as always, is Not Doing What The Boomers Did. in this case, not eating tasteless, boiled, canned veggies.  YOU THINK YOURE BETTER THAN ME??I’ve told this here before but my mom was legit upset at renaming Aunt Jemima. “Her family loved it and they’re killing the brands we love!! ”it’s all so loving stupid.
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