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Pro-level travel tips

Wed, 22 Apr 2026 03:42:14 +0000

A friend once said that if you’ve ever tried to meditate and failed to quiet your jumbled mind, you should take a trip instead.

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If You’re Stuck At An Airport Right Now, It’s Because Trump Fucked You | Defector

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 21:41:39 +0000

The background: the US is currently in the midst of its longest-ever federal government shutdown. Trump and the Republican Party will only agree to a deal to reopen the place if Democrats agree to drastic, inhumane budget cuts to Obamacare. Democrats said no, and so Trump said, OK, well we’ll just fuck everyone until you say yes.

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PyMyFlySpy: track your flight using its headrest data | Robert Heaton

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 18:33:53 +0000

When you connect to an airplane wi-fi network, you’re usually met with a payment page where you can purchase access to the internet. The page also usually gives you the same flight information that you’d find in the back of your headrest, like speed, direction, and estimated flight length. Perhaps it would have a map as well, I thought.

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The End of Affordable Travel – 2069 – Medium

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 15:34:33 +0000

It could well be that future generations spend a fraction of the time we do today in transit but see far more of the world. Like preindustrial humans, they may work mostly in their homes

Tags: #climate #future #imported:pinboard #travel #work

How to Really Drive Across the U.S. Hitting Major Landmarks : Discovery News

Wed, 11 Mar 2015 14:56:21 +0000

So, I fired off an email to Randy and asked him if he could use his algorithmic talents to plot the optimum road trip route across the United States.

Tags: #driving #ideas #imported:pinboard #travel #vacation

What It’s like to Fly the $23,000 Singapore Airlines Suites Class — Travel & Adventure — Medium

Tue, 30 Sep 2014 21:20:43 +0000

The world’s best airline experience, from Singapore to New York.

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The Pampered World of Congressional Air Travel - Businessweek

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 19:24:15 +0000

The point is, Congress’s decision to lift the sequester was even more self-serving than you probably imagined. After casting their votes on Friday, most members raced to the airport and went home.

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Opinion: Shutting down your gadgets at takeoff and landing: not such a bad idea

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:25:58 +0000

Those brief stints in which we must turn off our machines—the few minutes between push back from the gate and the extinguishing of the seatbelt sign, and the corresponding blackout at landing time—are something almost unique in modern life. Those rare moments in which our entertainment must come from within, not without. This is a perfect time to reflect on the journey ahead or the trip just taken. An all-too infrequent opportunity to quietly contemplate the world we live in and our place in the universe. A brief calm juncture in our otherwise hectic lives.

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Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer? | Culture | Vanity Fair

Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:39:25 +0000

The best memorial to the victims of 9/11, in Schneier’s view, would be to forget most of the “lessons” of 9/11. “It’s infuriating,” he said, waving my fraudulent boarding pass to indicate the mass of waiting passengers, the humming X-ray machines, the piles of unloaded computers and cell phones on the conveyor belts, the uniformed T.S.A. officers instructing people to remove their shoes and take loose change from their pockets. “We’re spending billions upon billions of dollars doing this—and it is almost entirely pointless. Not only is it not done right, but even if it was done right it would be the wrong thing to do.”

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Fired RIM execs 'chewed through restraints' on flight - Toronto - CBC News

Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:59:33 +0000

New details are emerging about the rowdy behaviour of two Research In Motion executives who were fired for disrupting an intercontinental flight — including that they managed to chew their way out of restraints after being handcuffed by crew members.

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Who Knew U.S. Airways Had Standing Room Only Tickets? - The Consumerist

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:06:38 +0000

The passenger, who wrote of his troubles to consumer advocate Christopher Elliott, says that on a U.S. Airways flight from Philadelphia to Anchorage, the airline seated him next to a passenger who weighed more than 400 pounds. "His size required both armrests to be raised up and allowed for his body to cover half of my seat," the passenger tells Elliott.

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U.S. Government Glossed Over Cancer Concerns As It Rolled Out Airport X-Ray Scanners - ProPublica

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:33:03 +0000

A ProPublica/PBS NewsHour investigation of how this decision was made shows that in post-9/11 America, security issues can trump even long-established medical conventions. The final call to deploy the X-ray machines was made not by the FDA, which regulates drugs and medical devices, but by the TSA, an agency whose primary mission is to prevent terrorist attacks.

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Breast cancer survivor forced into invasive patdown by TSA, even after submitting to backscatter imaging scan

Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:34:13 +0000

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MultiBasing revisited

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:16:03 +0000

"If you aren’t familiar with MultiBasing you can read more about it on my wiki. It’s a term I coined a few years back to try and describe a lifestyle that a few friends and I were increasingly inching towards where rather than living in one single place, we frequently traveled between several global locations, all of which were home in one way or another. In an essence we had multiple bases. Initially there was a lot of discussion about how to enable more of this but over the years it’s become more of a descriptive term for things we were already doing. Some more than others of course."

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What Airline Passengers Can Learn - TIME

Mon, 04 Jan 2010 16:02:10 +0000

"This now familiar ritual distracts us from the real lesson, which is that we are not helpless. And since regular people will always be first on the scene of terrorist attacks, we should perhaps prioritize the public's antiterrorism capability — above and beyond the fancy technology that will never be foolproof. By definition, terrorism succeeds by making us feel powerless. It is more often a psychological threat than an existential one"

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