Buying Twitter made Musk "king of the sandbox," allowing him to promote free speech, but not at the cost of his own ego.
  • Elon Musk purchased shares of Twitter after unsuccessfully petitioning the CEO to remove a Twitter account tracking his private jet.
  • Musk’s personal gripes played a key role in his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter.
  • Musk banned the account after promising not to, highlighting his prioritization of getting his way over free speech.

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  • PureTryOut@lemmy.kde.socialEnglish
    1373·
    11 months ago

    Ugh, I feel the same. I know the top 1% of the world or whatever emits tons and tons more CO2 per year than the other 99%, but I didn’t know it was this bad. That plane is flying multiple times per day. Sure Musk is probably not in it all the time, but that doesn’t matter.

    Private jets should be banned all together, let’s see how quickly they suddenly find out the internet exists.

    • Transporter Room 3@startrek.websiteEnglish
      693·
      11 months ago

      Things like this are perfect reminders that we don’t have to change every person on the planet, just eliminate the erronneous emissions.

      • Ænima@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 months ago

        Eliminate the erroneous emissions. Interesting take on the ol’ “eat the rich.” I like it!

    • Neato@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      38·
      11 months ago

      All air travel should have fuel and emissions tax. Normalize them to commercial airliners. That’ll incentivize larger, more efficient plane designs. It’ll also punish private jets. Also charge a fee for any planes not at least X% full. Also give discounts and waive fees for planes over X size that service under-served airports.

      A bunch of regulations like this should make private planes prohibitively expensive, like 10-20x their current cost. But that’s a lot of legislation that huge corporations and billionaires would oppose.

      • AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.deEnglish
        216·
        11 months ago

        Planes are already pretty fuel efficient per passenger. And larger planes are unlikely, because this would mean all runways they want to use must be extended so the can start and land there.

        • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          13·
          11 months ago

          Commercial planes with high occupancy got somewhat efficient (until you compare to other modes of transportation), but private jets with 1 ego on board are incredibly fuel inefficient.

          • Womble@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            11 months ago

            That’s domestic flights in the UK which are stupidly short. Short and long haul flights are at 150g which is already less than ICE cars at ~170 and not far above the average bus at 100g. Though obviously no where near electrified rail.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          31·
          11 months ago

          Planes are already pretty fuel efficient per passenger

          Eh… They’re similar to cars for a similar distance. But, that still means gobs of CO2 emitted if you’re traveling from NY to LA, which would be a massive trip in a car.