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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 34m

She makes money from everything.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 1h

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Folks,

It’s My Birthday!

YouTube video by Jason, the Cartoon Fan

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dilith 🎃 @flurrys.nekoweb.org · 13h

I thought I was listening to a crush 40 song for a good 20 seconds

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PBR Princess @transmaid.bsky.social · 14h

worst person you know has gotten worse

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 4h

Almost immediately finding out one of the Bad Dr Who Cosplay Young Tories whose clothes we were making fun of wants to legalise sisterfucking is like a really quick Milkshake Duck if instead of drinking milkshake, the duck had been filmed masturbating into a neighbour's wheelie bin

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 8h

You have all these unspoken rules that you think are fair. Okay let's agree that they are fair. How are they enforced? What are the penalties for breaking them?

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 8h

Okay what if someone who isn't in the middle seat moves into the aisle? Is it fascism for the flight attendant to tell that person to return to the seat they actually paid for?

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 8h

I find it baffling how little impact the existence of the Undertaker, a literal walking corpse, has had on science and religion

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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 9h

Ortiz was absolutely loving this sitting between AROD and Jeter

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

There are ways to resolve this sure. The airline could run a lottery and hope that there are no sore losers. The airline could offer a paid upgrade midflight at some price. But the absence of those options doesn't entitle any passenger to monopolize that vacant space, much less defy the flight crew.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Which of the 21 passengers in this diagram should be allowed to sit in the open teal seat when there's not room for the other 20? What if two people want to take the only open seat and can't agree? It's a better seat than the one they have so everyone would want the upgrade.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

There is no system of etiquette that fairly offers the open till seat here with extra legroom to just one of the 23 other passengers (21 if you discount the people already in the exit row). Whoever jumps into that seat without permission is being a selfish jerk.

Seating diagram showing one open seat with additional legroom in a sea of occupied seats.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

It's very hard to stumble into the good ending in Hollow Knight.

Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Not only that, the row they moved to carried additional responsibilities for safety that they did not agree to before they boarded the plane. Sitting in that row meant following extra directions and they refused to follow basic ones.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Well the person who moved did not follow your etiquette. They moved to a different row because that row had more legroom. They didn't slide sideways within their own row. They moved to a different row.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Which of the red circle head passengers gets to sit in the open teal seat? The other two nicer seats are occupied. All the standard seats are also occupied. How do you decide which passenger gets the upgrade?

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Also, the seat was distinguished by legroom. Fewer people on a plane doesn't mean that the remaining people have more legroom because the seats are still there even if they aren't occupied.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

1) those aren't the rules.

2) the plane in this story wasn't "half-full". There wasn't room for everybody to get a little more space. There were one or two seats out of hundreds unoccupied and somebody decided they were entitled to one of them.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

If there's somebody sitting in an exit row who can't be relied upon to follow crew directions, that person is endangering me and everyone else on the flight. There's no tattling involved here.

Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

If you think the value proposition of a plane ticket is unreasonable, don't get on that plane or buy a different ticket. When you get on a plane and buy a ticket you agree to rules - the same rules as everyone else on that plane. The opportunity to protest those rules was on the ground.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

These aren't benches that fill up like a subway train. These are individual seats. Some seats are more comfortable than others, with different amounts of legroom or width.

You can't rely on "etiquette" and unspoken rules and the luck of the draw. You pay for a seat, that's the seat you get.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

If you have 50 standard seats and one luxury seat and no one buys the luxury seat, you can't just let one random aggressive passenger claim it by fiat. Finders-keepers isn't policy - it leads to dissent and chaos on a *moving airplane*.

Run a lottery, *maybe*. Could still cause dissent.

Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 19h

This is absolutely wild. I’m on a cross country flight. We are being diverted midway through to Denver. The reason? Some dude is sitting in the exit row who didn’t pay the $155 fee and he refuses to move back to his seat.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

There are procedures for lotteries to give upgrades.

Or that seat could be used by flight staff, or to accommodate someone who becomes ill. But just letting someone go finders keepers on it is no good way to do things.

This is especially important for exit row seats for safety reasons.

Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Let's say there are 51 people on a plane. There's one empty seat that's slightly better than the other 51 seats. Everyone on the plane paid for a standard seat. The luxury seat is empty.

Who gets to sit in the empty seat? How do you determine fairness?

You can't. Seat stays empty.

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Rising FRIGHTy Kuuga @kuuga.bsky.social · 9h

Why should this guy be allowed to sit in an unoccupied seat as opposed to someone on the other side of the plane, or someone in the row behind him? It's the same reason we don't let kids bring candy into classrooms.

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