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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

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

lolinder wrote: post #31
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Nobody's arguing he or Swift or anyone else doesn't have a reason to travel The article literally says that Musk did not have a "pretty good reason to travel a lot last year": > unlike someone like Musk, Swift actually had a pretty good reason to travel a lot last year

Fixed.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by malfist »

consp wrote: post #22
gregors wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wealthy people have enough sway to get the laws written they want. It's nothing new. Our politicians are legally bought and paid servants.

> Our politicians are legally bought and paid servants. Isn't that illegal? (... withdraws into ignorance cave)

Currently, with the latest SCOTUS decisions, only explicit quip pro quo (i.e., I give you money, you vote for a law) is illegal. If I give you money, and then complain publicly that we need a law about something and you vote for it, that's not illegal.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by khazhoux »

Arainach wrote: post #32
throwaway51081 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really want to see you design rockets, robots and brainchips using email. Taylor Swift could have livestreamed on YouTube.

Good news: Musk has done none of those things. At best he's distracted and interfered with people who did those things.

We have irrefutable evidence that Elon was the top executive at companies that did all those things, while you have no evidence that those things would have happened without him.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by paulpauper »

gregors wrote: post #15
mikece wrote: post #2

"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.

Wealthy people have enough sway to get the laws written they want. It's nothing new. Our politicians are legally bought and paid servants.

Ppl repeat this like a truism. Hundreds of millions of dollars of donations by a certain crypto exchange CEO did nothing to keep him from seeing a 25 year sentence.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by sparker72678 »

zellyn wrote: post #18

Am 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?

Unless they have a way to roll the ADS-B info, it should be pretty easy to work all this out.

Hard to imagine this will actually make jet tracking sites/accounts/etc disappear.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by jacobsenscott »

That jet fuel wasn't going to stay in the ground or anything if these people don't fly. Sure - they contribute to to burning it up slightly faster than if there were no private planes, but rest assured people are going to burn everything that burns, until there are no more people.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by khazhoux »

highwayman47 wrote: post #42

CO2 for me and not for thee

Is someone tracking your CO2 emissions when you drive or travel by commercial jet? There's no database I'm aware of where I can search for your name and see all your vehicular movement.

Re: Congress Just Made It Basically Impossible to Track Taylor Swift's Private Jet

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Post by rascul »

mikece wrote: post #10
wannacboatmovie wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never underestimate the power that the Swifties wield.

Maybe in ten years... for now they are mostly under 18.

The first 18 year old swifties are now 36.
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