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Spirit Airlines goes out of business after 34 years, ending operations immediately (apnews.com)
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[–] 97 points 5 months ago (13 children)

Maybe we could all chip in? I'd like a Fediverse A320.

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  • [–] 100 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    I'm not so sure.

    The right wing would be instantly defederated from the rest while the left wing builds three identical versions that all say they wanna go forward while pulling the plane in different directions.

    Everybody hates the huge central fuselage but can't disconnect from it without falling from the sky.

    Most of the discussion focuses on snide comments between the slightly different wing designs while all the critical tail components are held together by 3 single selfhosting admins. Then one of them goes on holiday and the tail fin just disappears.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago

    The two wings entirely forgetting that the point of their existence is to support the massive population in the centre of the airplane just trying to get where they're going is pretty peak political commentary

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    And then the flight attendant gets on the speaker and is like:

    HI IT’S ME NICOLE, I’M THE FEDIVERSE CHICK

    Then the plane erupts in a giant argument over if the flight attendants are being scammed, trafficked, or if they are the scammers or the traffickers.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    I could imagine us mounting a huge effort to get the fediverse jet and even have an instance based on the thing. We would always have a bird in the air, so that the fediverse would belong to no nation and would survive any conflicts.

    But then somebody would mention how bad flying the plane is for the environment, and calculate that it breaks down to multiple kg of CO2 per post, and we'd all be like "shit, you're right" and shut it down.

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