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This is an impressively thorough and considered response.
I'm getting a strong impression it was written by GPT Seems overly long/verbose/conscientious for a human
I've been flying internationally 10-15 times a year for ~10 years. Different routes and destinations each time. I've spent a lot of time searching for hacks like this that let me save a few bucks on flight tickets. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you find that a flight is cheaper depending on which country's website or currency you use to book. Flight tickets are priced dynamically using a variety of factors to determi…
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This is an oddly off-topic and mean-spirited comment!
Looking at the comment thread you can see how this comment suddenly changed the course of the discussion to something totally unrelated to this post. This is one of those things that can create deeply nested comment threads on an unrelated topic just because of the nature of the comment and how it can trigger people to get involved in an off-topic debate.
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Chase Sapphire travel insurance is limited only to evacuation and transport anywhere >100km from home state.
Yup, I have separate travel insurance from a reputable domestic insuracne company that I trust. My credit card also has a travel insurance from a multinational insurance company that I had never heard of before. The bank didn't even bother sending me the insurance policy terms when issuing the card. I would never dare depend on the credit card's travel insurance. Because travel insurance is one of those things that y…
I've been flying internationally 10-15 times a year for ~10 years. Different routes and destinations each time. I've spent a lot of time searching for hacks like this that let me save a few bucks on flight tickets. Sometimes it works. Sometimes you find that a flight is cheaper depending on which country's website or currency you use to book. Flight tickets are priced dynamically using a variety of factors to determi…
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Go on a website, be it legit airline site or reputable agency. Book, pay for the flight. After payment, they inform you that the trip you booked (through their website) simply does not exist. Your only choice is to ask for a refund that will take 28 days. Easy, cheap cashflow.
Happened to me 3 times this year, Qatar airways (official site), Fram (official site). Happened to my friends and family, all post covid.
I need to go back to France next month, am 4000 euros down in "pending refunds", reached my cc limit and most importantly, have no idea where to safely book a ticket.
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This is an impressively thorough and considered response.
I'm getting a strong impression it was written by GPT Seems overly long/verbose/conscientious for a human
I mean how lazy these commenters have to be that their only complaint is "possibly written by GPT"?! Is there something wrong or incorrect in the comment? If yes, then say that! Is there something unclear? Say thta! Is there something insightful to add to the comment? If yes, then say that!
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Accidents happen, and now with Roe V Wade repeal even more will. Not everyone gets to make the conscious choice. Sounds more like you've given up and are using it as the moral high ground. To turn your earlier phrase- 'Sorry, I don't take advice from people who are removed from the human race.' Sounds stupid, because it is. You do what you can, I will do what I can. But don't think for a second you are better than an…
You have misunderstood: I'm not suggesting childfree people are better than people who have children. I'm suggesting childfree people have a negligible impact on climate change compared to people who have children. You can bring "moral high ground" into it wherever it seems applicable, but I have not done that. I've said only that it's hypocritical to criticize a person for their climate impact while simultaneously m…
You are making an assumption that children just are a net negative.
As others have mentioned the carbon footprint of a child is miniscule compared to an adult,
They are not driving, flying, owning homes, etc for a while, and many never will.
One of those children could very well be the solution to that, and many other problems.
As for moral high ground you insist that you are better for having made the choice not to have children, as you see their opinions as less than and not worth listening to, as they have had children.
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This is a common hack with business travel where prices of flights including a Saturday stay are much cheaper (aimed at holidaymakers) than weekday flights (business travel). If you know you will need to travel to XYZ every second week M-F for two months then you buy one two month return SFO-XYZ-SFO and then buy the rest of the flights as 11 day flights back from XYZ Friday to the Monday of the following week (XYZ-SF…
Absolutely! I once had my company offer me to stay the weekend (hotel paid by them) extra, as it would be cheaper.
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Not having children is certainly not the ultimate sacrifice. That seems like a really silly sentiment. I think suicide would be the ultimate sacrifice, although stupid for climate change. Ultimate because it’s the last act and ultimate because it’s everything that can be spent. As far as difficulty, devoting one’s life to improving the environment is a bigger sacrifice than childlessness. And raising positive childre…
However, given that the person I responded to want to have kids, I assumed that having kids was important to them.
And given that getting kids is basically something that you devote the rest of your life to it comes in the ball park of "as important to you as your life" if you choose to have them.
So to them, it ought to be an ultimate sacrifice.
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It's the opposite IMHO. Reducing emissions directly will never work because of the Jevons Paradox[0] (at least for CO2 - crazy-high-CO2-equivalent-pollutants are something else). The only thing that matters is preventing extraction of fossil fuels in the first place. That's why the fossil fuel industry promoted the idea of "carbon footprints", and why Adtech make their datacenters renewable - greenwashing their busin…
Why on earth would the Jevon paradox apply to CO2, an output of industrial processes which can be disposed of for free, not an input?