• humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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    12 hours ago

    I learned clapping was unappreciated the day of this week’s plane crash, that I was scheduled to land at same airport that day. My reply is that us normal people are just happy to land upright. We all clapped when landing the next day.

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    20 hours ago

    Was on a flight a few months ago, and when we landed, no clapping - dead quiet. Out of the silence, I heard a, what must have been, six year old shout really loudly “WE DID IT!”.

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      14 hours ago

      that 6 year old clearly needs to learn the importance of silence. A commercial airliner deserves no praise, flights are no more special than train rides or bus rides.

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        12 hours ago

        If you’re not trolling - what a bizarre thing to tell a child. If children can’t be children, then who can??

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        13 hours ago

        I celebrate my bus rides and thank the driver every single ride. We need more positivity for everyone providing services we rely on.

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          10 hours ago

          I thank the driver too, but I don’t think they’d take it as a compliment if I showed relief that they didn’t crash.

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            5 hours ago

            If the bus went 600 miles an hour and every one on board might die because a duck decided to take flight at the wrong time? Then ya I think there would be some serious celebration every time the bus stopped.

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              It’s not the duck that’s a problem. That would his 15 mates and extended family all going the same way.

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    21 hours ago

    Also… Why would you get into one of those things? In a plane, you are the crumple zone.

    For business just teleconference.

    For personal, I can tell you that photos tell the story pretty well. There are people there already taking the photos. You don’t need a selfie there, just use the Gimp. For everything else in the modern world, it all looks pretty close to how it looks at home.

    There’s no need to travel. Specially within your country. Its not like high speed trains are any safer. And cars…what’s next the entire planet is a big ass road?

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            5 hours ago

            Nope. I wanna keep it that way. I’ve flown on 737’s where the engines keep making little sparks the entire flight… As an ex solarturbines engineer I can tell you that that’s not normal and can lead to flying blades which can slice right thru the plane body and you like butter. They have a cover around the blades that is supposed to stop them. But I don’t trust it since I haven’t seen the test videos at vehicle speed. But that’s just one minor issue. I’ve been on a plane landing in Bohol the Philippines where some “minor” damage was promptly patched using duct tape.

            My job used to take me places. That’s probably the only reason to travel… For science, education, or for a job. Not for going to another sushi place or to see a building or a pyramid. The worse travel is for nothing… Carnival cruise ships. And also for things… China made stuff you buy from temu.

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      13 hours ago

      in order to visit one side of my family, which lives over 1000 miles away, a plane is by far the most convenient and fastest method.

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        5 hours ago

        That may be true. My sister lives on the east coast and I’m on the northWest. My mom and other siblings live south.

        I don’t go visit on the weekends. I got shit to do. Just give them a call. They probably got shit to do too. Lol.

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      21 hours ago

      I wonder who doesn’t like your comment. This clapping shit is so cringe. Maybe under some very difficult conditions. But hey, they’re trained for it? And I’m pretty sure they do it for themselves too lol