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We have /c/fuckcars but no /c/fuckplanes. Yet a lot of the same arguments apply. They cause air pollution (roughly double the amount per km traveled), noise pollution and they (airports) take up a lot of space near dense living areas. Sure, some places can practically only be visited by plane, just like some places can practically only be visited by car. But people don't consider not having your holiday that far away or giving pushback on a busines trip that should have been an online meeting. Besides work-from-home being encouraged, work-from-home-country should be too.

Cars need to be discouraged in favor of busses, trams and trains. Planes nees to be discouraged in favor of high-speed trains, staycations and hopefully new alternatives like modern sailboats or electric planes.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world -4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I know. Fixed. But I will not be doing any research myself — I'm not the one interested in finding out information regarding this. OP should be, however, since it seems to be a major concern for them. 👍

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

OP should be, however, since it seems to be a major concern for them. 👍

And you think OP is incapable of asking the AI?

What do you think you're adding to the conversation by adding AI to it?

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)
[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The information is pointless because it easily could be wrong. And now anybody who wants to know whether it's wrong or not has to research it themselves ... which they could have done from the beginning.

It just adds a layer of wasteful AI slop that, ultimately, brings absolutely no new information to the table.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Then that's an ad hominem. There's always a potential for error so that alone is not per se disqualifying; and despite how much it might anger you, the major LLMs are more accurate than random chance on questions like this. I feel like if you're going to be bitchy about it (and you seem quite determined to be bitchy about this), you have an obligation to at least do better than the guy who did almost nothing. At least google it or something. Right now you're just telling us, "I can't even say that's wrong, I'm just upset you used an LLM."

[–] victorz@lemmy.world -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm not trying to "add AI" to this, nor am I asking OP to use AI... I am saying that actual research should be done to find out more/actual facts.

I think you're derailing this from where I intended it to go. I just wanted to show a quick example of what was already stated — that commercial plane travel is quite efficient, fuel-to-passenger wise. But if "you" want to know more, there's better sources than the quick AI response, hence why I mentioned that it was an AI response in the first place so there's no mistaking it for a real quote. I made sure I cropped the image very carefully too, to include that it was AI, so there's no doubt of that fact.

We're on the same side here, of AI hallucinations and all that, friend. Don't worry. 👍 So let's put that to rest, thanks.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

We’re on the same side here

We're really not, if you still think injecting AI slop into a conversation is a good and useful thing to do.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago