Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, 250 guests arriving on 90 different private jets at the wedding in Venice.
a year ago by brachiosaurus to c/world
Article is in italian I couldn't find any news about this in english but i believe it's really important to share.
"Sono attesi dagli 80 ai 90 aerei all’aeroporto Marco Polo di Venezia. Jet privati da Los Angeles, New York, Londra e Dubai scaricheranno in laguna un carico scintillante di star, imprenditori, supermodelle, influencer e tycoon. Il traffico aereo privato sarà talmente intenso da richiedere un coordinamento speciale tra l'aeroporto di Venezia e gli scali di riserva a Verona e Treviso. "
Translation:
"80 to 90 planes are expected at Venice's Marco Polo airport. Private jets from Los Angeles, New York, London and Dubai will unload a glittering cargo of stars, entrepreneurs, supermodels, influencers and tycoons into the lagoon. Private air traffic will be so intense that it will require special coordination between Venice airport and the reserve stopovers in Verona and Treviso. "
Don't forget to turn off the lights (those LED lights that consumes practically nothing), and recycle (but forget that recycling companies do not actually recycle anything).
As for that EV, it seems an easy way to shame poor people who cannot afford it.
Every time, this world feels like a big joke. Once I retire, I'll get a cabin in the woods and forget about all this.
Good luck living through the ever-increasing frackquakes..
Poor people are who should use EVs the most. They have been on the market for 15 years now, you can get dirt cheap older models. Bolt, eGolf, Zoe or Leaf can be had for under 5k. Cheaper to power, cheaper to maintain, cheaper to run. Plus more convenient and fun, subjectively.
Also recycling is part of "reduce, reuse, recycle", which not only can help "save the planet", it will definitely and immediately save your wallet. Even if someone supposed to do the recycling, doesn't.
5k? Not where I live, and you need charging stations, and sometimes subscriptions (for the Zoe). EV start at 30k in France, it's a luxury car that poor people cannot afford and/or charge.
As for the reduce, reuse, we all do that already. I was referring to recycling which don't not happen compared to rich people who are shaming us and destroying the planet at the same time.
So, ev’s age such that the EV’s die with the batteries. Most the EVs on the used market are teslas* or absolutely at their end of life, as far as value goes-most of the cost of an ev is in those batteries.
While I don’t disagree with the sentiment… the reality is that used evs are a shitty option. What we need to be doing, that would benefit everyone, is building out mass transit, that run 24/7 and at reasonable frequencies.
(*which there are oh-so-many reasons to not drive, including that Tesla will still be profiting from you, even if you get it used. Because they track the shit out of you driving to train their FSD.)
The EV battery dying the moment you look at it funny is a myth, if I were conspiratorial I'd say by the oil industry, but I firmly believe hanlon razor comes into play here.
Yes they degrade, but they are still useful.
LFP batteries (introduced around 2020) have an estimated lifespan of a million kilometers. The NMC ones less, around 400k, with warranties covering 200k.
If you are really worried despite all the data, Renault allows you to buy the car and rent the batteries. Those cars are on the market for about 3k nowadays, plus battery rent 60€ a month. Never worry about the battery, if it degrades Renault gives you a new one. They know they will make a big profit, because again, batteries don't degrade that easily.
Mass transit is the best solution but plenty of people still need cars, and for those people used EVs are the best economic (and ecological) option.
How about improving income distribution so people can buy a decent new car? It is fucking pathetic that the US income distribution is on the same level as fucking Russia.
New cars have always been a bad investment, a luxury item. You can get a year old car with 5k on the clock for a 40% discount. I'm all for improving income (and wealth) distribution, but everyone buying new cars should not be the goal.
Also, the truck in question will be pretty cheap and suitable for developing countries, so that's Jeffie accidentally doing the right thing for once. Just because he's involved in financing some project, doesn't mean it's bad.
Until it is on the market for the supposed cheap price it is just a rich fuck pretending to do the right thing.
Remember when Teslas was going to have a budget model?
It's not his truck, he was a series A funder among many. The CEO of Slate is a woman with an idea.
Them: "Save the planet!"
Bezos: "... and redeem it for valuable prizes!"
A woman with an idea who took funding from bezos.
Her choice.
My choice is to not have anything to do with bezos, as much as I humanly can. And that includes not buying products he will profit from.
Sucks that a small frame single cab pickup truck has to comeback under Bezos, because it is the perfect example of a sane size and price truck, but being attached to Bezos and electric only kills it for me. I was super interested until I did research on the company. I really wish they’d bring back the tiny (by today’s standards) Toyota trucks with the full size bed. Like the mid 90s Tacoma with no lift
My first car was a Toyota Tacoma. I miss that thing. The bed was low so you didn’t have to kill your back, too.
And for all those “I use it for my job” types, they’d have more use out of a freaking transit connect.
When SUVs became “family vehicles”, instead of the dick-compensation-machines, marketing said “ahah! Big trucks!” And now big trucks are the dick compensation machines.
So that if Trump goes after 4 years and is replaced back by a democrat he is going to turn back to democrat voters and tell them "look I sent women to space, I am super into environmental issues and I actually was a big fan of DEI so I am implementing them back again". For him it is just hedging bets.
We need a French solution to the billionaire problem.
Don't forgot the horse drawn....person
They sent them to North America first. The charting and colonisation of NSW happened shortly after the US declared independence, not a coincidence. Of course now the inbred aristocracy doesn't run this place any more so you can keep your worst thanks
according to this wiki article, over its lifetime a plastic straw will release 1,46 grams of CO2, while a paper straw will release 1,38 grams of CO2. that’s a saving of 0,08 grams.
and according to this article, a private jet releases 4,9 kilograms of CO2 per mile.
so: assuming you are using one straw per day, a year of using paper straws instead of plastic straws offsets about 0,006 miles of one private jet, or a bit more than 10 meters.
that’s fun.
tbh, the real reason to use paper straws instead of plastic is that they’re much more biodegradable, not so much the CO2 use. we should use way less plastic in general, imo
and it bears mentioning that the CO2 released by private jets still pales in comparison to what the airline industry produces; the average global northerner’s overseas holiday is still very destructive for the environment (tho obviously not as much as a rich fuck using a private jet)
If you compute it per person I suspect a billionaire is probably producing (just due to flights) about 10000 to 50000 more than an average traveller (couple international flights a year).
Well I am glad I can buy a CEO 10 meters of flight time. My estimates is that our collective world wide yearly efforts can just about earn our top 100 richest turds their annual flight pollution.
Well, a quick Google search says billions of straws are used every day.
A straw seemingly cointans 0.42 grams of plastic.
So by using paper straws, assuming just 1 billion straws a day, we save 420 million grams (420 tons) of plastic.
Assuming it takes the same amount of oil to create a kg of plastic and a kg of fuel, that is 420 tons of fuel a day, just over 150k tons of fuel a year.
An average private jet has a capacity of around 20 tons of fuel (looked up G650 on Wikipedia).
So, the global paper straw usage offsets at least 7500 private jet flights. More if we use more than a billion straws, and more if we assume a jet doesn't fully burn 100% of the tank on every flight.
Thanks for the calculation. Sounds about right, according to the link below the top of the ladder billionaire flies about a couple hundred times a year and consumes about 2000 tonnes of fuel. So the fuel consumption you calculated is about 70 billionaires. It is generally true that the top hundred richest people in the world consume/obtain about as much resources as the rest of the world so that calculation is believable.
Italy is also home of the people who responded to that regime by dragging Mussolini and his wife's bodies after their assassination across the country back to Milan, where they were unceremoniously dumped in a town square to be humiliated and desecrated, then hung on girders above a service station in the square by their ankles until they fell and subsequently were buried in unmarked graves.
Skyrim something about Vici.
Use dots of different color nail polish to color code keys!
I understand your feeling but keep in mind that many people live in Venice. Some of them are organizing against the event, it's not fair to wish for a natural disaster.
A natural disaster of the Luigi variety
A single bolt of lightning that spreads to those wearing gold within a certain specific radius.
It’s not fair for jeff bezos and his band of cronies to exist either. Sometimes the world is unfair. At least in my example the unfairness would be swift and would overwhelmingly result in a net positive for humanity
Wishing is illegal
Now that’s what I call a target rich environment
We need you Luigi
Send more blue shells
90 private jets polluting the planet just to see one rich asshole say ”I do”.
Maybe we will get lucky and some/all will fall into the canals and drown.
I mean she looks and her name sounds hispanic. Shouldn't she be sent to El Salvador? /s
My bad, forgot to mention that..
Oh they are kettling themselves. It would be a shame if something happened to all of them simultaneously
Tells you how much more style the rich used to have. What good are all those billions today if the place where you live is not as pretty as Venice? Nobody is going to visit his house in Florida in 100 years.
This is where God gets to prove he's real, and he's on the side of the people. If it's true, Venice will finally sink into the sea and become a legend, like Atlantis.
If that happens, I'll finally go to church every Sunday. Hear me God? That's what it will take.
Won't someone rid me of these pesky Sociopathic Oligarchs?
I bet you none those flight will crash. So why do our flights get to crash?
God willing there'll be a few more to add to those statistics soon.
If only.
All the Sociopathic Oligarchs in the same place at once? Look, I'd normally be against this sort of thing, but if someone wants to drop a nuke on Venice, I could excuse it just this once.
I'll bring the sandbags, you bring the ropes.
Flight Radar 24 will busy.
I saw a trailer for a movie if you stop walking you die and if there's two people left they fight, winner gets money's or a wish or something. Anyways we should do that to rich people and winner gets a pizza party, we just keep the money and do helpful stuff.
Richard Bachman’s (Stephen King) The Long Walk?
The book was pretty good, at least when i read it as a teenager. Don't know if i'd like it now
I believe so, I saw a trailer of it I'm not sure when.
They shoot horses don’t they?
Its called The Long Walk, and I am listening to the audiobook now for second time. And spoiler no they don't fight. You just keep walking until ome of them drops. Not telling you who.
Mrs Merton: What was it that first attracted you to millionaire Paul Daniels billionaire Jeff Bezos?
Interesting. This one have more information about protests and many comments ( also in italian ) https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/...
We need to do more above ground nuke tests. I can think of a place right now.
Sadly, they make a ton of money from AWS (amazon web services). A large portion of the internet relies on it. It's difficult or impossible to avoid using any amazon services. Like, you use a website and their backend uses s3 and rds. No way for you to know, much of the time.
I avoid shopping on amazon anyway, but the problem is wider spread.
Headlines like this are a good reminder that, except for your local surroundings, you're basically powerless change anything meaningful.
And why is it important?
Venice's major and italian authorities are using the argument that this event will bring a lot of money in the country to justify it. News like this are evidence of the damage these people are actually creating. 90 private jets for 250 guests is one of the most ridiculous rich people stunt i've ever seen, i think it's important to share to let people aware of this shit happening.
Using the world’s resources at a rate that does nothing for anyone but their fat need for liesure and pomp.
Just to set this in relation, the transatlantic roundtrips of those jets are the equivalent to 540000000 questions to deepseek r1, or 1710000000 questions to quen 2.5. for quen, that means to ask about 36 questions per minute.
for the next 90 years.
Don't feed the troll
Because the rich and powerful set the example that the rest of the population wants to imitate. If the elite travels around blowing pollution, the rest of the population will do the same.
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But hey, we should do the right thing, save the environment and buy his ev truck!
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