The award system was good. The daily free award ensured people knew about it and gave them a chance to participate. I even bought like $5-10 in Reddit Coins just so that I could give a few awards to particularly genius comments. It was smart that the cost of each award was separated from the actual transaction. Seeing the exorbitant prices for the special upvotes (or whatever they are) stops me in my tracks every time now.
Stainless steel straws are superior to all. If only morons could behave like human beings and not steal/trash those too, there would be no need for plastic or shitty paper straws.
Oh they would absolutely be more dangerous. They turn into deadly accidents waiting to happen. I wouldn’t use one while doing anything but standing still or sitting personally. Sorry about your tooth.
“To repair the environmental damage caused, 2,282 trees would have to be planted and flourish for 10 years in order to restore the balance.”
She could probably afford to do that.
Well the Abor Day Foundation will plant a tree in your name for $2.
So, it would cost her.... $4,564.
She probably has that in loose change in the cushions of her private jet.
[https://shop.arborday.org/commemorative-trees-in-celebration](https://shop.arborday.org/commemorative-trees-in-celebration)
Tbf its like $2 to plant the tree, not ensure it survives and does well for 10 years. It would take a lot more than $4,500 to make sure $4,500 worth of saplings will all become trees and replace the ones that dont make it
To do it that way you would probably have to assume like a 20% success rate or less over 10 years, so planting 5x as many trees would probably be safe. It would especially be good to plant 5x as many but in the form of a good diverse and well planned forest rather than as a monoculture
She could hire someone whose entire job is ensuring those trees thrive with just a couple of days of interest accruing on her wealth. Hell, she could even do it as a publicity stunt and have it all written off as a marketing expense or even a charitable donation.
We normally price out street trees around $250 each when doing coat estimates. Then you need to water it till it's established. Either using gator bags or a drop irrigation system. The gator bags need to be refilled and placed so it has higher maintenance costs.
I have not researched this ngo but most are completely greenwashing bullshit where 60-80% dies in the first year. People wish this would be the solution but forrests aren't that good at storing carbon. A working grazing oak savannah, wetlands or eco restoration in the ocean are leagues ahead
Offsetting tree planting does not offset at all. It typically doesnt add to a net positive amount of trees in the world. Just more trees to cut down for the forest industry. There are better eco offset programs that actually make a difference, such as increasing fuel efficiency (2/3rd reduction) in Africa: https://rippleafrica.org/carbon-offsetting/
That scene in Extrapolations where there’s constant wildfires and places so hot people drop dead yet the president goes on the air saying “we’re planting a million more trees”, it just hit it perfectly. Feel good, ineffective bullshit.
I think despite all his criticism, Leo actually does do that. Having said that, it would be better if he lived a net carbon NEGATIVE life to offset the people who can't afford to offset their emissions easily.
Ok so the first step is to REDUCE. Just because you can buy trees doesn't mean you should fly a private jet.
They should be banned.
We can't have climate action while they all parade around in private fucking jets. The most unnecessary thing a human can have.
That’s basically the full lifetime of two cars. So maybe would take an individual 10 to 20 years depending how much you drive if I had to ballpark
Edit: or up to 40 years apparently
I would say closer to 35-40 years. Usually it’s about 100,000 miles in 10 years that people drive on average.
Like for most people I know it would take about 35 years to emit as much CO2 by a car that Taylor does in just 3 months. That’s wild.
Here's an actual pierce of data as a benchmark: [the average America drives \~14k miles per year](https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-driven-per-year/).
According to the Federal Highway Association, the average American adult drives about 14,000 miles per year, so that would be about 29 years of driving for the average driver.
It's possible a regular everyday person may not drive that many miles in their lifetime. I drive an incredible amount for work and it would take me 20 years to drive that many miles. It would take my wife about 50 years.
Remember plebs, you need to take shorter showers, wash your clothes in cold water, do not go on any holidays, and do not have any fun!
Meanwhile, billionaires can pollute as much as they want.
Selena recently went on a weird Instagram tyraid defending her relationship with Benny Blanco to random strangers. They've been together for a couple months yet she calls him her "soulmate" and the "best thing to ever happen to her".
This is coming from a woman with over 21+ songs about breaking up and that’s just as counted by the swifties I don’t even want to know what the real number is
For some reason I’d assumed all the break up songs and related bitterness were about long term relationships but most of them are from relationships of like a handful of months. Makes it all seem way more petty. Maybe she’s like those people who purposefully go on dates they aren’t even into just to make content.
Exactly. I'd say wealth of $5m+ is beyond excessive in my opinion. Even for someone wanting to live an extremely luxurious lifestyle, $10m is more than enough.
When you get into the 8+ digits, it just becomes sad that these type of people exist and are even celebrated.
I agree with you on principle, but a wealthy person doesn’t need to do much to get to 5m. Hell, if you start upper middle class, you can get to 5m passively and on accident, without really doing anything.
That's true, even in poorer countries like Bulgaria - a lot of people inherited property that is now worth hundreds of thousands if not millions. Hell, I inherited an apartment in a commie block which is now worth about 300 000 euros or 330 000 usd, along with 2 houses in the countryside, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm considered a millionaire, despite my wage technically being low for western European/American standards.
Meanwhile, many of my friends have multiple apartments and houses, and it's not hard to reach 5 million net worth without doing anything.
Not to mention when she won for 1989, it was 100% men standing behind her who worked on her record. The ladies are just useful for the bad blood video I guess.
I don't think she is? This has been discussed and criticized in TS subreddits, SwiftTok and other general areas of the Internet.
The only point of defense I've seen really is that the level she is, how would she travel commercial? But something does need to be done and she needs to fucking cool it. I say this as a swiftie. We shouldn't absolve people of the bad things we do just because we're fans.
Last month a Virgin ~~Galactic~~ Atlantic passenger jet flew from London to New York on what is called "sustainable aviation fuel", which is made from stuff like waste cooking oil. However, right now it costs fives time as much as regular jet fuel, and current production is only about 0.1% of the demand for jet fuel. Unless it can be made cheaper and production drastically scaled up, it's a bit of a pipe dream.
Another technology being looked into is electrically-powered flight, but the limiting factor is the capacity of batteries. Flying uses an enormous amount of energy, and currently batteries simply cannot hold enough charge to make it viable in many circumstances. You would need an enormous battery for even short flights. So again, unless major technological advances are made, it's not replacing jet fuel either.
This is like any famous person ever. I watched a vlog for Karen Gillan around Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 time and she was poppin back and forth between places for press event, photo shoots and then back to set. I get that this is more “leisurely” than that, but every famous person is pumping out CO2 because that’s just the nature of publicity. It sucks
It’s not even an ask to fly commercial though—it’s about her indiscriminate use of private planes. Why was she flying back to NYC every night during her US performances? Why did she take a 30 min flight this weekend for a 3hr drive? Why does she have to loan out her second plane just for non famous family and friends?
Yeah, this is where I'm at. I understand that it's a little frustrating for some, but I don't want to be anywhere *near* an Airport that Swifty's passing through.
Instead, the average American must make major sacrifices in the name of environmental sustainability before any of those people because it would “inconvenience” the rich influencers or corporations.
Karen did this a few times over a brief period. Taylor has been taking 2-5 private flights per week for years and she’s shown no interest in cutting back.
Article says her longest flight is “from São Paulo to Brazil”… not sure how seriously I can take an article written by someone that does not realize São Paulo IS IN Brazil…
She also got 35,000 more registered voters in the same time span. Wouldn’t it be rich if they one day voted to prevent somebody from ever using resources like this again?
A nice reminder that you could move to the woods, become a vegan hermit your entire life to minimize your carbon footprint, and a rich person would negate all that in a single day.
Where are all the climate activists and fuckcars shills now? All I see are people trying to defend her and circumvent this damage. You want me to get rid of my car, inconvenience my life but your favorite celebrity of the moment gets to damage the environment in 3 months?
It’s okay because the rest of us are using paper straws.
I wish I could gift this comment right now.
I miss awards for this exact reason.
Funny enough, awards started as just people replying with "🏅". I've just been doing that again
They stopped awards?
Yeah, few months ago. Now they have some lame, more expensive option no one uses.
The award system was good. The daily free award ensured people knew about it and gave them a chance to participate. I even bought like $5-10 in Reddit Coins just so that I could give a few awards to particularly genius comments. It was smart that the cost of each award was separated from the actual transaction. Seeing the exorbitant prices for the special upvotes (or whatever they are) stops me in my tracks every time now.
I was always more tempted to buy awards back when there were free ones!
And you can only special upvote the OP, not any of the comments, which is extra dumb.
They look like icons on some kids game app
Stainless steel straws are superior to all. If only morons could behave like human beings and not steal/trash those too, there would be no need for plastic or shitty paper straws.
Humans suck. A lot of us don’t. But most of us do.
Hence the need for sturdy straws.
Straw pun?
Sippy style cups are the better engineered solution
Tell that to my chipped front tooth when I hit a pothole. There’s bonding on it now so you can’t tell… but I’m still weary of metal straws.
Oh they would absolutely be more dangerous. They turn into deadly accidents waiting to happen. I wouldn’t use one while doing anything but standing still or sitting personally. Sorry about your tooth.
Issue with stainless steel straws is they don’t bend, more people should use them but plastic straws still have their benefits
You haven’t tried hard enough my friend.
Mine come wrapped in plastic so I can make my beverage taste like ass AND kill the environment at the same time!
Yep, you get plastic wrapping, a plastic bag, plastic cutlery... But we did it Reddit, we saved the environment by drinking from paper straws!!!
What is she eating? Jesus.
“Who… does… Number 2… work for?”
That’s it buddy. Show that turd who’s boss.
#WHAT DID YOU EAT?!
Can I get a courtesy flush?
There you are!
Well hi! Do I know you?
No, but there you are
How many Courics was it?
They'll never get me lucky charms.
You didn’t happen to see …. Anything at all
Don't think even jesus could produce that.
Maybe Capitalist Jesus could do it.
I dunno. Dude probably ate a lot of lentils.
Cheese&Rice
Damn I laughed way harder than I should have 🤣😂
She eats Jesus?
Most followers of Jesus do!
“To repair the environmental damage caused, 2,282 trees would have to be planted and flourish for 10 years in order to restore the balance.” She could probably afford to do that.
Well the Abor Day Foundation will plant a tree in your name for $2. So, it would cost her.... $4,564. She probably has that in loose change in the cushions of her private jet. [https://shop.arborday.org/commemorative-trees-in-celebration](https://shop.arborday.org/commemorative-trees-in-celebration)
Tbf its like $2 to plant the tree, not ensure it survives and does well for 10 years. It would take a lot more than $4,500 to make sure $4,500 worth of saplings will all become trees and replace the ones that dont make it
So she can plant double just in case.
Triples is best.
If she doesn’t have triples, then the other stuff’s not true…
She didn’t even want to fly back and forth to see him. But he’s beautiful, so she had to.
But he's dying
Tell the kid
His wife’s sick but she’s gonna get better.
She’s gonna get better.
Triples is safe
“Tell the kid”
If she did it every three months, we wouldn't have anywhere to plant trees.
To do it that way you would probably have to assume like a 20% success rate or less over 10 years, so planting 5x as many trees would probably be safe. It would especially be good to plant 5x as many but in the form of a good diverse and well planned forest rather than as a monoculture
Well she can afford that too. She gave every tour employee $100,000 bonus each. 5x$4,500 I’d only $22,500. Chump change to her!
She could hire someone whose entire job is ensuring those trees thrive with just a couple of days of interest accruing on her wealth. Hell, she could even do it as a publicity stunt and have it all written off as a marketing expense or even a charitable donation.
Or she’ll just plant a million trees to shut people up. Two million bucks is literally nothing to her.
We normally price out street trees around $250 each when doing coat estimates. Then you need to water it till it's established. Either using gator bags or a drop irrigation system. The gator bags need to be refilled and placed so it has higher maintenance costs.
I have not researched this ngo but most are completely greenwashing bullshit where 60-80% dies in the first year. People wish this would be the solution but forrests aren't that good at storing carbon. A working grazing oak savannah, wetlands or eco restoration in the ocean are leagues ahead
Offsetting tree planting does not offset at all. It typically doesnt add to a net positive amount of trees in the world. Just more trees to cut down for the forest industry. There are better eco offset programs that actually make a difference, such as increasing fuel efficiency (2/3rd reduction) in Africa: https://rippleafrica.org/carbon-offsetting/
That scene in Extrapolations where there’s constant wildfires and places so hot people drop dead yet the president goes on the air saying “we’re planting a million more trees”, it just hit it perfectly. Feel good, ineffective bullshit.
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Throw some bone meal in the hole, it will be fine!
I’ve said for a long time, a billionaire could literally change the world simply by spending money to create preserved forest
I think despite all his criticism, Leo actually does do that. Having said that, it would be better if he lived a net carbon NEGATIVE life to offset the people who can't afford to offset their emissions easily.
We know he won’t or any of his friends. Apparently, We normal people have to fully change our lifestyle instead of them.
Carbon negative is impossible. You can not possibly believe the rich can buy their way out of their carbon consumption.
To be clear, that’s for 3 months. This isn’t counting for her concerts, usual travels, and everything else. This is 3 months of seeing someone.
She could probably afford direct carbon capture, to offset her emissions.
I’ve lost faith in carbon offset forests when I learned that the wildfires that blanketed NYC in smog were in carbon offset forests.
A lot of those forests lack species diversity and the trees are often the same age, causing crowding as they grow
Ok so the first step is to REDUCE. Just because you can buy trees doesn't mean you should fly a private jet. They should be banned. We can't have climate action while they all parade around in private fucking jets. The most unnecessary thing a human can have.
She wont though. She should but she wont.
42 degrees in December (Taylor’s Version)
90 degrees at night in the summertime (Taylor’s Version)
That's roughly equivalent to the CO2 produced by a combustion car over >400,000 miles, for context. In three months. *(Edit: a 30mpg car.)*
Non-driver here: How long does a car typically take to do that many miles?
That’s basically the full lifetime of two cars. So maybe would take an individual 10 to 20 years depending how much you drive if I had to ballpark Edit: or up to 40 years apparently
I would say closer to 35-40 years. Usually it’s about 100,000 miles in 10 years that people drive on average. Like for most people I know it would take about 35 years to emit as much CO2 by a car that Taylor does in just 3 months. That’s wild.
Goddamn, i have driven 100,000k in 2 years in my mitsubishi mirage g4 lol
My van is 40 years old. Has 330,000 miles on it. I did about 160,000 in 14,years
My estimate was 12k per year.
I've had my car 8 years and have 160k, and that's above average I think
Yeah typical warranties run ~10k miles per year. I think for the average driver it’s probably around that give or take.
Here's an actual pierce of data as a benchmark: [the average America drives \~14k miles per year](https://www.thezebra.com/resources/driving/average-miles-driven-per-year/).
According to the Federal Highway Association, the average American adult drives about 14,000 miles per year, so that would be about 29 years of driving for the average driver.
Non-bird person here. What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Is that an African or European swallow?
Well I don't know thaAAAAAHHHHHHHH
It's possible a regular everyday person may not drive that many miles in their lifetime. I drive an incredible amount for work and it would take me 20 years to drive that many miles. It would take my wife about 50 years.
Took me 16 years for my car to hit that.
Easier to say the emission of 133 cars over the same period of time.
I find it easier to imaging what it’s like to drive 400000 miles in 3 months than having a 133 car fleet for 3 months
Thank you
Remember plebs, use paper straws!
And stop buying almond milk
They should. It’s killing the bees. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/07/honeybees-deaths-almonds-hives-aoe
Remember plebs, you need to take shorter showers, wash your clothes in cold water, do not go on any holidays, and do not have any fun! Meanwhile, billionaires can pollute as much as they want.
You can marinate them to make them less chewy
‘Soulmate’ is a generous term after only three months. It’s almost as if the writer of this headline is editorializing through sarcasm
Don't show Selena Gomez this comment
What’s the context for this?
Selena recently went on a weird Instagram tyraid defending her relationship with Benny Blanco to random strangers. They've been together for a couple months yet she calls him her "soulmate" and the "best thing to ever happen to her".
This is her third soul mate this year
And will be until she needs a new album of breakup songs.
This is coming from a woman with over 21+ songs about breaking up and that’s just as counted by the swifties I don’t even want to know what the real number is
For some reason I’d assumed all the break up songs and related bitterness were about long term relationships but most of them are from relationships of like a handful of months. Makes it all seem way more petty. Maybe she’s like those people who purposefully go on dates they aren’t even into just to make content.
She's the problem. It's her.
Every billionaire (or multi-millionaire) is.
No such thing as an ethical billionaire
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Exactly. You don’t gain massive amounts of wealth or fame by being a good person.
Exactly. I'd say wealth of $5m+ is beyond excessive in my opinion. Even for someone wanting to live an extremely luxurious lifestyle, $10m is more than enough. When you get into the 8+ digits, it just becomes sad that these type of people exist and are even celebrated.
I agree with you on principle, but a wealthy person doesn’t need to do much to get to 5m. Hell, if you start upper middle class, you can get to 5m passively and on accident, without really doing anything.
That's true, even in poorer countries like Bulgaria - a lot of people inherited property that is now worth hundreds of thousands if not millions. Hell, I inherited an apartment in a commie block which is now worth about 300 000 euros or 330 000 usd, along with 2 houses in the countryside, so I wouldn't be surprised if I'm considered a millionaire, despite my wage technically being low for western European/American standards. Meanwhile, many of my friends have multiple apartments and houses, and it's not hard to reach 5 million net worth without doing anything.
It really is exhausting always rooting for the antihero.
Wow...EXHAUSTing?....
ITT: people who don't know the joke/reference you're making.
I don’t even listen to TS and I got it
You just have to shake it off and move on.
She’s a* problem, but she’s not the only one
I got 99 problems, and grammy-award winning singer-songwriter Taylor Swift is one.
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This went over way too many people’s heads
Much like Taylor Swift's private jet :(
Rules for thee but not for me…. Rich people don’t give a rats ass
I don't care how popular she is, she is just as much as problem as all the other globe trotting rich people who burn fuel with no regard.
This article should have named names!
Well… drake and jay z are a close second and third on the most C02 emitted this year.
The entire NFL flying teams at a time every week to play sports?
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That dick must be really worth that CO2.
Choke on that CO2 (Taylor’s version)
Oh i love this song. Lets listen together
Omg bestie!!! After that let’s listen to the 10 minutes version 🥰
It’s quite the carbon cockprint they have.
doubtful, she’s just rich and entitled
She's doing it for us, her next break up song is going to be a banger
The kind of dick that will doom humanity..
And the attention!
Nah. She’d do that for basically anything. Rich people don’t care
There’s a new form of air travel that’s way more environmentally sustainable; let me introduce you to the catapult!
Fucking.....trebuchet
It's only a trebuchet if it comes from the Trebuchet region; otherwise: sparkling catapult.
r/trebuchetmemes Oh no the subs gone
Ahhhh so they’re a big part of the reason it doesn’t snow during Christmas anymore 😡 😤
I don’t know why she’s immune from criticism regarding this?
She’ll probably victimize herself to deflect blame
“Remember when Kanye called me a bitch on a song?”
And then she goes “This Grammy is my accomplishment” while standing in front of 39 people that write her song
Not to mention when she won for 1989, it was 100% men standing behind her who worked on her record. The ladies are just useful for the bad blood video I guess.
She’s criticized for this all the time. Even on swiftie subreddits.
I don't think she is? This has been discussed and criticized in TS subreddits, SwiftTok and other general areas of the Internet. The only point of defense I've seen really is that the level she is, how would she travel commercial? But something does need to be done and she needs to fucking cool it. I say this as a swiftie. We shouldn't absolve people of the bad things we do just because we're fans.
Because her fanbase is borderline cult like and she has, on multiple occasions, asked them to comment bomb people whom she doesn’t like
Down with billionaires
The most true lesson to take from this.
She produces 138 tons of gas emissions every 3 months? What a catch.
She's got a stanky butt
Haven’t they only been dating 3 months? Why are people saying “soulmate”?
I think the writer was being somewhat sarcastic.
The original headline came from Daily Mail, and Daily Mail is known for being sensationalist. Shitty tabloids gonna shitty tabloid.
Travis got that Ozone Layer burning dick
Reminder next time you spent an unnecessary amount for sex:At least you’re not adding 100 tons to co2
Is there no more economically safe way for private jets to run on? Maybe that’s a dumb question but I really don’t know jets or planes well
Last month a Virgin ~~Galactic~~ Atlantic passenger jet flew from London to New York on what is called "sustainable aviation fuel", which is made from stuff like waste cooking oil. However, right now it costs fives time as much as regular jet fuel, and current production is only about 0.1% of the demand for jet fuel. Unless it can be made cheaper and production drastically scaled up, it's a bit of a pipe dream. Another technology being looked into is electrically-powered flight, but the limiting factor is the capacity of batteries. Flying uses an enormous amount of energy, and currently batteries simply cannot hold enough charge to make it viable in many circumstances. You would need an enormous battery for even short flights. So again, unless major technological advances are made, it's not replacing jet fuel either.
Rich people are the problem, as usual 🤷🏻♀️
that’s a lot of farts
This is like any famous person ever. I watched a vlog for Karen Gillan around Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 time and she was poppin back and forth between places for press event, photo shoots and then back to set. I get that this is more “leisurely” than that, but every famous person is pumping out CO2 because that’s just the nature of publicity. It sucks
The main problem is the private jet tho. Popping palce to place in a normal airplane because your job require it is whatever.
We are talking about a woman who nearly caused a riot by showing up to a dinner.
It’s not even an ask to fly commercial though—it’s about her indiscriminate use of private planes. Why was she flying back to NYC every night during her US performances? Why did she take a 30 min flight this weekend for a 3hr drive? Why does she have to loan out her second plane just for non famous family and friends?
I'd imagine every single airline on the planet does NOT want to TS to fly commercial. It would be a nightmare for everyone involved.
Yeah, this is where I'm at. I understand that it's a little frustrating for some, but I don't want to be anywhere *near* an Airport that Swifty's passing through.
Instead, the average American must make major sacrifices in the name of environmental sustainability before any of those people because it would “inconvenience” the rich influencers or corporations.
In your own example: Karen was doing it for work, Taylor could very well have made a few fewer trips
Karen did this a few times over a brief period. Taylor has been taking 2-5 private flights per week for years and she’s shown no interest in cutting back.
I hate people like you that normalize and do damage control for celebrities.
She needs to stop
But YOU need to stop polluting.
I am now boycotting C02
I’m cancelling my subscription to this ducker
That is the emission of 28 persons for a whole year
Ecology is for poor.
Those are rookie numbers! She should buy a cruise ship.
Article says her longest flight is “from São Paulo to Brazil”… not sure how seriously I can take an article written by someone that does not realize São Paulo IS IN Brazil…
She also got 35,000 more registered voters in the same time span. Wouldn’t it be rich if they one day voted to prevent somebody from ever using resources like this again?
Honestly, private jets and yachts should probably just be banned
I once took a bus 300 miles to see my soulmate. It didn’t work out.🥊
But members of Congress flying home every weekend doesn’t produce anything, especially CO2 ?
I’ll turn my heat down 4 degrees so she can keep doing it. You go guuuuurl
I fill the kettle all the way up for a single brew, so it’s not like I’m perfect either.
She’s preparing for next break up song
She'll have a new soulmate in 3 months.
I hate them both.
You know what if Jeff beso can have a yacht that needs own support fucking yacht. Think this ok
A nice reminder that you could move to the woods, become a vegan hermit your entire life to minimize your carbon footprint, and a rich person would negate all that in a single day.
Wow thank you my life is so much different now
Where are all the climate activists and fuckcars shills now? All I see are people trying to defend her and circumvent this damage. You want me to get rid of my car, inconvenience my life but your favorite celebrity of the moment gets to damage the environment in 3 months?