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At least curate your AI's output. This needs better punctuation and could use some editing.
Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
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Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
#12Taylor Swift doesn't care that "it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste"
She wants privacy, as is amply demonstrated by her actions on this topic. There is zero evidence that she cares about people monitoring her fuel use.
The article goes even further off the deep end, suggesting Swift is trying to game search engines to bury jet fuel stories, with zero evidence.
Tabloid nonsense.
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#13> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year: she was on tour. Yes, because the richest man on the planet, heading up multiple billion dollar companies, couldn’t possibly have any legit reason to travel anywhere.
I laughed out loud when I read that. Would expect nothing more from Gizmodo.
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#14"Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets." I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which…
Flight plans still have to be filed, right? And are any of those details public, as in would a flight tracker show the destination of a plane in flight? If so, time for some traditional intelligence work: someone at the airport with a telephoto lens to document just who disembarked from the plane.
The flight plan might include the registration number of a plane but if the ownership database is anonymized then it would require a fleet of "aviation enthusiasts" to determine on their own who owns which planes and then cross-reference filed flight plans with such a private database in order to dox the movements of celebrities. Would probably be an interesting business opportunity if it wasn't a giant "sue me!" target for people who have lots of money and are willing to drop $100k in lawfare on someone to make them go away.
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#15"Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets." I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which…
Wealthy people have enough sway to get the laws written they want. It's nothing new. Our politicians are legally bought and paid servants.
Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
#16> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year: she was on tour. Yes, because the richest man on the planet, heading up multiple billion dollar companies, couldn’t possibly have any legit reason to travel anywhere.
It doesn't say he couldn't have any legit reason but less than an artist you gets paid to perform in front of an audience.
I bet for many travels of Musk this would be true:
"This Meeting Could Have Been an Email"
Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
#17> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year: she was on tour. Yes, because the richest man on the planet, heading up multiple billion dollar companies, couldn’t possibly have any legit reason to travel anywhere.
That line approaches peak first world detachment; the things that actually matter are superfluous entertainment.
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#18Am I wrong in thinking that if the same person uses the same plane for multiple, documentable trips, or if they are spotted entering or exiting their plane, it should be possible to de-anonymize their flight data?
Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
#19> Of course, it’s worth pointing out that, unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year: she was on tour. Yes, because the richest man on the planet, heading up multiple billion dollar companies, couldn’t possibly have any legit reason to travel anywhere.
Nobody (apart from the dolt who wrote this anyway) is arguing he or Swift or anyone else doesn't have a reason to travel. You don't need a reason. That said, in times such as ours when we're all being told via our media and legislation passed that we need to be more eco-friendly, it's a slap in the face (and I'll say, it's 2 slaps from Musk who's fortune has been greatly bolstered by AMPLE Federal subsidies for green industry!) that they can't take a regular goddamn airplane like anyone else. Planes are ATROCIOUS for emissions simply by virtue of how a jet engine works and, at least right now, it's pretty clear that public opinion leans towards it's unethical to use such machines so frivolously.
Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet
#20"Celebrities and billionaires have long complained that it’s just way too easy for random people on the internet to monitor how much fuel exhaust they waste as they flit through the skies via their private jets." I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which…
> I suspect it's the second part -- and the very powerful, rich people who fly their private jets to global climate conferences -- who had more to do with this legislation than the blond cover-girl with which it's being associated.
Yeah, I mean I doubt this would do a damn bit of good for a celebrity like Swift, because some fan is probably paying attention enough to figure out the tail numbers of the jets she's flying in.
It's the billionaires who aren't celebrities who will benefit from this.