I hate air travel so much. I have non-local family so deal with a single r/t per year, but that’s about my limit.
Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Talonflame@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
What about people like myself who have POTS and can’t be in a standing position for too long? My heart can legit stop causing me to pass out if I’m standing for too long.
threeduck@aussie.zone 10 months ago
Then don’t book standing seats?
Talonflame@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
Why should I have to be forced to pay more for sitting seats just because I have a disability? We shouldn’t be normalising this.
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Got to get that body count up these suckers be falling from the skies. Exponential Madness. Slippery Slope. We’re all falling down the mountain, grasping for a short rope. Mass hysteria gaslighting clowns, limp dick leadership. Fly to you vacay as the nukes are dropping. YOLO. A world in denial. The show must go on. Welcome to the world of the billionaire welfare queen. The Liberals open the door for their devil. This was always the case. The Sun worshippers, breed-like rats and whorship idols. Singing their coping mechanisms of toxic positive optimism. Who the hell needs to watch movies anymore? Clown, clown show, clown show. Capitalism in Crisis, everybody’s goose stepping. It’s easy to destroy but difficult to build. lowest common denominator.
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Sir this is a highly confused Wendys…
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Second hand coffins, cheap!
kraftpudding@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Not really worse than standing on the train for hours. But, standing on a train doesn’t make the ride cheaper. So, in some ways better than standing on the train
nixcamic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve stood on the bus for 4-5 hours before. When I was younger I could sleep standing on the bus. Not sure if I could pull it off now.
LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 10 months ago
[deleted]andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Lowest common denominator…capitalism in crisis. It’s not a joke, man. If they can get away with it, they will.
g0d0fm15ch13f@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean honestly though, I’m kinda here for that. It’s essentially teleportation at that point.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
I am reminded of The Jaunt where animals and humans can survive teleportation only while unconscious.
Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, I’m broke as shit. So if it halved the cost of the tickets I’d do it, but I’m 99% sure I’d be paying close to the same.
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
You must be a wizard. Of course the savings aren’t transferred to you. When they fuck up. They put it on the consumer. Time is unwinding. The poor pay more.
ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I don’t get it. Why not just have bunk beds and everyone gets to lay down like those sleeper busses in Asia. They get way more people on those busses than with just seats
Lyrl@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I am sure boarding and deplaning takes longer if everyone is getting into or out of a prone position. The idea might have been standing seats for short flights where turnaround time between flights was a large percent of each trip leg.
MycelialMass@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tilt the beds so they fall down a tube onto the tarmac
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Velcro them to the walls!
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
F0r what it’s worth: this was apparently a concept created by an airline seat company called Aviointeriors who showed the idea off at trade shows in 2010 (as the “SkyRider”) and 2018 (as the SkyRider 2.0 pictured here.) Pretty much all the news articles about it are about Aviointeriors claiming vague unsorced “plans” for them to be adopted by some future echoing Aviointeriors’ own PR releases, but the articles mostly end up being about the intense public backlash to the idea. No airlines have announced any plans to buy and use these seats, not even those lunatics at RyanAir, and in the years since all SkyRider mentions have been quietly removed from Aviointeriors’ own site.
Sources:
cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The fact this company is still around makes me think someone with a lot of money is trying to promote the concept every so often just to see if the public might finally accept this ludicrous idea. A company being around for 15 years with 0 sales and just a concept means someone wants this to happen but thinks the only problem is that they haven’t figured out the right pitch.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The company sells normal airplane seats and has been around for a long time.
Manticore@lemmy.nz 10 months ago
Standing still in place for a few hours is waaay more uncomfortable than pacing and walking around. Shifting the weight on our feet really helps
I can’t imagine how awful these would be, especially with how cramped they’d be packed in (otherwise they’re no smaller than chairs). God, you couldn’t even bend down to scratch your knee.
Talonflame@lemmy.cafe 10 months ago
It can even be dangerous for some people to be in a standing position for too long. I have a severe case of POTS caused by a genetic disorder. My heart stopped during a tilt table test, which is where I was forced to remain in a standing position. If I’m expected to pay more for a normal seat just because I’m disabled, that’s ableism.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Shifting the weight on our feet really helps
This is why some people use wobble boards with standing desks. Makes a big difference.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Cowards just need to go all in and hang us under the plane like an overhead roller coaster.
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Too much skill and engineering involved. The people that run our societies, specifically capitalist societies, because that’s the only thing that’s left, are too obsessed with the profit motive to actually even attain something like this. Unless you’re just being flown around like meat and your survivability is not guaranteed.
vga@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
I’m over 40 and I usually stand up about half of my working day. But I wouldn’t want to stand on an airplane because it’s cramped.
dankm@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
I’m tall enough I can’t stand up on any plane I’ve been on in the last several years…
gobbles_turkey@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’d pay extra to not have to deal with the TSA as well.
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
The Security Theater is non-negotiable. It’s there to maintain fear. Those that created the Security Theater are the ones that create the terrorism.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t wait to see people passing out or getting injured because of these seats.
Joeffect@lemmy.world 10 months ago
What could go wrong standing for two hours… Nothing probably if you’re a healthy young individual
jcs@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People are often advised to not lock their knees for a long time while standing (ex: marching band, or standing at attention in the military), and you cannot force anyone to have healthy posture. The ergonomics of these seats appear to take some of the load off the legs and feet, but it’s something to consider for patrons with more sedentary lifestyles. Many people believe themselves to be fit individuals until they are placed in uncomfortable conditions for a long time or experience unexpected stress. They could manage to injure themselves in some way, then find some reason to litigate.
JulieLemming@lemm.ee 10 months ago
How fat you would have to be to pass out from standing for 2 hours?
neons@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
honestly might even be more healthy
bucketofcandyfloss@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
banana chair
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s right, girls. Start packing on those pounds because the only airline seat that poops, then lies about it doesn’t have farts in the headrest anymore.
prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’ve read this repeatedly without any concept of what you’re saying but goddamn is it provocative and gets me going.
Clinicallydepressedpoochie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Im ok with given it would probably be easier on my back
the_trash_man@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Watch these cost the same as standard seats, and the cost of standard seats go up
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“You’re still a premium subscriber and have full access to our premium plan, but some of our options have changed.”
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Honestly, that may actually be more comfortable for me than trying to fold my legs into the tiny rows they have now.
turtlesareneat@discuss.online 10 months ago
I am super torn here because pre-back-surgery me looks at these and says “the NERVE of these fuckers” and post-back-surgery me is like “Well that WOULD be nice yes”
nroth@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats? Seems like you’d save the same amount of space or more with vastly more comfort.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
The serious non-joke answer is the same as the one for these standing seats: emergency exit speed. When an airplane crash lands you have like less than 2 minutes to get everyone out before the huge inferno happens and roasts people. So for standing seats that pack even more people into an airplane, they have to prove that they can still get everyone out before the deadline. For laying-down seats they would have to prove the same thing.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Another emergency door can’t be that expensive
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Would you rather die in your sleep? Or with your balls crushed?
burntrealm@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Not only that, but also the mess it would make. Airlines make good money off of selling food and drinks, how are you going to consume those laying down? Very messily, that’s how. More mess = more time spent cleaning the plane = less time in the air = less ticket sales. Not to mention the loss in drink and food sales from people who don’t want to do that laying down. It’s a lose lose for the airline.
qarbone@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’ve been on enough planes to believe 2 minutes of evacuation time will see 5% evacuated and 95% trampled before the fiery inferno.
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pop me out the side with compressed air like a decoy flare
recall519@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Just lean it forward and have everyone slide down and out of the emergency slide.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People too fat
andybytes@programming.dev 10 months ago
Now, it would be pretty reactionary for me to say that you are wrong, especially when speaking about Americans or even the UK. But we are all a byproduct of our environment and I still have empathy and I don’t want a fat shame But I definitely don’t want to glorify it and I want to find the source of the problem Because people don’t necessarily choose to be overweight shit, I’m a little chunky. I’m a poor Yankee. Oh, also, very interesting, China is a capitalist country and it has an obese problem. This is all just shit on top of shit. Like, we gotta go down this rabbit hole of causation. But people don’t have the attention span. One day at a time, I suppose.
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
So we’ll have them stand for hours instead?
CatDogL0ver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, since this is a shit post, why don’t they wrap the passengers like a piece of luggage and store them on a shelf? Save so much room… Just give them diapers! /S
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 10 months ago
An additional $25 Diaper Convenience Fee has been automatically added to your total.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats?
Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.
But it’s all shit regardless. Boeing can barely even make planes that don’t fall apart on the runway. The American airline industry’s fleet is increasingly defunct. The FAA is gutted. Airports are falling into disrepare due to mismanagement. You’ll be lucky to get any kind of air travel in another decade.
Trollception@lemmy.world 10 months ago
!remindme 10 years
Dasus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.
Wouldn’t the same group have trouble standing for an entire flight?
If only there was some sort of halfway point between lying down and standing up, something which would be easier to than lying down, but wouldn’t be as physically demanding as standing up.
Oh well.
DoubleSpace@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The FAA’s goal of zero air disasters will feel like a luxury in the future.
ICastFist@programming.dev 10 months ago
Solution: bring a cheap plastic chair as part of your luggage
MousePotatoDoesStuff@lemmy.world 10 months ago
And if the plane fails, jump out of the plane with the chair and sit down/stand up as you’re about to hit the ground.
You won’t receive any fall damage during the animation.
(Make sure to check patch notes, this is a 2020 update exploit)
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
Honestly I didn’t even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m 6’6". Standing only seats would be preferable to me.
TaiCrunch@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I’m 5’5" and I just know my legs would dangle like a child on their first roller coaster.
BreadAndThread@lemmy.world 10 months ago
5’4" here. Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to reach the floor and would hang there like a rag doll. 🤣
blackris@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Yeah, crouching like a gremlin under the hand luggage chutes? Fuck that.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Currently my strategy is to attempt to fold my legs under the seat because it’s not physically possible for my thighs to fit. Between kneeling and praying to the God of capitalism to not give me a dvr vs crouching like the subhuman ogre I am: I’ll crouch.
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
The lengths the US will go to to avoid building rail.
RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
This is almost certainly a European thing.
It is a European thing!
Blackmist@feddit.uk 10 months ago
Because of course it’s Ryanair.
Oh, you want a seat? That’s an extra £50. Each. Both ways. Go fuck yourselves.
The EU needs to regulate the fuck out of that shitbag company.
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
It’s a capitalism thing.
Extract as much value as possible. Deliver as little value to your customers as possible. Treat them as second layer of product.
Human needs are not the goal.
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Ryanair has no plans to introduce them. (sorry for the metro link).
Also Ireland kind of gets a pass they don’t have a rail link to anywhere. A Dublin-Holyhead tunnel would definitely be a good idea.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
It sounds quiet ridiculous, but I also had some flights that were so short (~50 min) that it almost took more time to seat everybody. Anyway, I would love to read those safety reports. Not only is sitting better on impact, but also cramping more people in the same machine, means more people (which trend to not comprehend the idea of leaving their luggage behind) share the exit routes.
atlien51@lemm.ee 10 months ago
If people actually pay for this it’s on them
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
If it catches on, these seats will be the base price and seated places will become premium. It will impact everyone that travels by plane.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 months ago
Of course. How else are they going to advertise $10 tickets to Florida?
atlien51@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And so the enshitiffication of air travel continues!
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How people can look at (mostly) state owned rail vs private airlines and still think the free market benefits the average person is one of life’s big mysteries to me.
MotoAsh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean, Trump won the vote, and Brexit won the vote… Something tells me it’s as simple as most people are fucking stupid.
yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Next step - put bicycle seats, reducent material for backs. Then add bicycle pedals for engines, to reduce fuel usage. None said anything about actually reducing ticket price by that, high prices stays forever.
isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
None said anything about actually reducing ticket price by that, high prices stays forever.
Standard ticket if you generate at least 1KW, otherwise the price goes up if you generate less, with a fine for less then 50W generated during the flight
yoriaiko@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Bet You will have to pay max price front. For security reason.
Possible overpaid (in case You return some electricity), are returned in form of credit points for next purchase!
nuko147@lemm.ee 10 months ago
There’s an idea. Flights that people can make standing, should be banned, except when there is a body of water between the destination.
RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Airlines: “You’re not gonna believe what clouds are made of…”
nuko147@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Oh, yes corporations. I guess body of Liquid water then. 😂
sundray@lemmus.org 10 months ago
For a second I thought “Low quality cropping” was a new c/ being announced.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 months ago
First it’ll be the seats. Next they will remove the floor. Now it’s one of those dangling roller coaster rides without rails! 😃
tzrlk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Apart from the deadly practicalities, and the boring route, that does sound kinda fun ngl.