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- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 2 weeks ago:
No, if you find a flight you like and, instead of putting your credit card information right there, you drive to the airport, pay for parking, wait in line at the ticket counter, tell the agent you want to buy that itinerary you just found online, argue with them when they say they can’t/won’t so it because it’s freaking Frontier, pay for your ticket, walk 10 minutes back to your car in the parking ramp, pay for your hour of parking, and drive home.
Probably not worth it for a single person/purchase, but if it’s charged per person, per direction (I think it is but not sure) and you’re paying for your whole family it may be worth it.
- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 2 weeks ago:
That’s only really done now for nonrevenue (employee) travel and changes in existing itineraries (trying to get an earlier flight, getting rebooked to a full flight because you missed your connection and that’s the next one, etc)
Some flights during certain seasons (spring break in Florida, for example) are so full that you hardly stand a chance of getting on, and of course that’s the airlines’ fault
- Comment on The price breakdown of my flight is kinda funny, 80% taxes and fees 2 weeks ago:
Well, half of it is a “carrier interface charge” - basically, you’re playing to buy online. Fees are taxed differently, but they have to be optional. If you buy at an airport, they don’t charge it.
That Frontier for ya. The Ryanair of the US
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This sounds like the work of a developer. If you want to take a plot of land and sell it for $2x/m², it’s entirely possible… But it may take $3x/m² worth of improvements if you’re not careful.
Frankly, if you have to ask these kinds of questions Lemmy is not the place to get the answers. You can get a college degree in this kind of thing, and it seems like you’d need to start at the very basic level.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
That’s a basic economics thing that doesn’t have an easy answer. But basically, at lower prices, people generally demand a higher quantity of something. Raise the price, and people start to think twice and consider other options. Supply is the opposite: at a higher price, more of a product will be produced (or in the case of pre-owned land, landowners are more likely to cash out). At lower prices, people won’t bother.
So in the case of land, price is affected by what people want, but also what’s available. If there is a lot of open space and that’s what everyone wants, groovy! But if people want limited amounts of tree land, prices are going to skyrocket for that and people will look at open land as an alternative.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
You’re putting your priority of beauty on others, who seem to prioritize function if they do hobby farming (in which case, trees could get in the way of whatever they’re trying to do with the land)
Neither preference is wrong. In theory prices should reflect supply and demand.
- Comment on Doordash deserves it's fate 3 weeks ago:
I don’t mind driving, and I’m such a weirdo about paying/tipping when I can do something myself. I can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve had food delivered in the last decade
- Comment on what are “female jocks” called? 3 weeks ago:
Very similar time frame for me… I always thought that preps were more of an upper-class group. Maybe there’s a little overlap between those two groups though.
- Comment on Is the Nintendo Switch 2 the end of innovative consoles? 4 weeks ago:
Every other Nintendo console shakes things up pretty massively, the next one is mostly a horsepower upgrade with no major innovation
NES / SNES (home console gaming in general)
N64 / GameCube (viable 3D graphics)
Wii / Wii U (much different control. I have to admit I never really touched the Wii U but it follows the pattern of missing the major hype)
Switch / Switch 2 (mixing an honest console with honest portability)
- Comment on How alarmed should I be to see stool in my blood? 4 weeks ago:
I ate beets a few days ago. Wife and I each had a brief panic in our respective morning poops the next day. Hasn’t been an issue since
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
We did it!
Such a difficult accomplishment 🥹
- Comment on [Elon Musk] January hasn't even ended and we already have the Photo of the Year. 5 weeks ago:
Also like… That’s probably the only time you’ll see sympathy over neurodivergency from the people saying that
- Comment on Has any child who was separated from parents because of Trump's immigration policies ever said something about it directly to Trump? 5 weeks ago:
How far away is the Mar a Lago kitchen? That could at least put him close to one
- Comment on Hulu quizzing about the ads played 1 month ago:
What country and what law?
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 1 month ago:
I’ve never worked at a coffee shop, but I know our taste sensitivities are different at different temperatures. I’d be surprised if they were exactly identical products to account both for that, and the fact that your product is about to be diluted when it gets combined with ice (depending on the temperature before that happens). The ingredients may be more or less the same, but the proportions and concentrations may not be.
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 1 month ago:
Again, part of the overall drink is supposed to be made of the water from melted ice. It’s hard to compare sizes perfectly with that in mind, but it’s a less-extreme similarity to comparing a jug of orange juice with a can of concentrate (the kind you mix with water in a pitcher at home). Different products, but also different sizes for a reason.
- Comment on Ordering coffee in the USA triggers me 1 month ago:
Did you expect them to offset the less ice with more coffee?
In my experience, many iced coffee drinks are made a bit warm and more concentrated. The ice melts a bit, diluting the drink and giving more liquid overall.
Do they do that to an extreme? Probably. But there’s also more to it than “I got a drink with less ice and it wasn’t very full”
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 month ago:
Note to self: If I ever need to push @M137@lemmy.world 's buttons, food packaging typography misunderstandings is a great option.
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 month ago:
(Lantina isn’t a word, that was the joke)
- Comment on "Family Size" has no meaning anymore 1 month ago:
Could be Lantina
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Some people are workaholics, especially people who think like that.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
“how do you plan to counter the inevitable contraction of your workforce to achieve your expansion goals?”
Also, he’s probably a shit person. If he actually implements this plan I’d start inviting him to stuff on his extra work day (maybe pull in other mutual friends). Bonus points if you can make the first extra day such an awesome thing that it either eats him up inside on that day, or if you manage to get him to accept all of his employees revolt over it
- Comment on Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space? 1 month ago:
That’s… What I said?
- Comment on Can astronauts jerk off or toss the troff in space? Would their heart monitors would show it to be elevated? Or can or has any two astronauts ever had sex in space? 1 month ago:
The ISS is in space.
Then again, so is planet earth so I can answer from that perspective: yeah, it’s pretty easy. We have gravity and don’t usually have monitors on so just whip it out and have fun
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 1 month ago:
That Uber driver was not amused
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 1 month ago:
That would be a problem… If it were a thing. At least here in the US, it’s not. Can you tell me where you’re not allowed to fix your own car, assuming no specialty tools are needed?
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 1 month ago:
I mean, I’m pretty sure cars’ lifespans have generally increased over the years, despite not being able to easily tweak valves or what have you. So many older cars don’t have a 6th digit on the odometer because it was so common for a car to die after about 100,000 miles anyway. Now you might hit some issues, but that kind of mileage is basically your car’s 40th birthday.
- Comment on Not to get into a whole DEI debate. But my brother and I wanted to troll a little bit Elon Musk. We found a job opening we both applied for it I got the job. Because I said I was from africa can i sue 1 month ago:
It’s not exactly difficult to fire employees who are citizens either
- Comment on what floor lamp would you recommend to play a grand piano? 1 month ago:
Wouldn’t a desk lamp make more sense?
For things that could use some decorative flair, I love looking at Facebook Marketplace and such to see what you can find used. There’s probably plenty of “not made like they used to” stuff around you, but honestly a lamp is just a bulb socket, connected to a cord, held in place by a body. The “reliable” stuff can be replaced with parts from Home Depot. Heck, I did that with a lamp I bought in Turkey (I’m in US) that had a European plug/socket on it just for compatibility reasons. Easy peasy.
- Comment on Do people still call each other at midnight on NYE? 1 month ago:
Does 5G handle regular voice calls, or are you talking about calling over a data line with an app?