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Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 after passing budget evaluation (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

For what it's worth: this was apparently a concept created by an airline seat company called Aviointeriors who showed the idea off at trade shows in 2010 (as the "SkyRider") and 2018 (as the "SkyRider 2.0" pictured here.) Pretty much all the news articles about it are about Aviointeriors claiming vague unsourced "plans" for them to be adopted by some future date, steeped in Aviointeriors' corporate PR speak, but the articles mostly end up being about the intense public backlash to the idea. No airlines have announced any plans to buy and use these seats, not even those lunatics at RyanAir, and in the years since all SkyRider mentions have been quietly removed from Aviointeriors' own site.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 minutes ago

I don’t get it. Why not just have bunk beds and everyone gets to lay down like those sleeper busses in Asia. They get way more people on those busses than with just seats

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Standing still in place for a few hours is waaay more uncomfortable than pacing and walking around. Shifting the weight on our feet really helps

I can't imagine how awful these would be, especially with how cramped they'd be packed in (otherwise they're no smaller than chairs). God, you couldn't even bend down to scratch your knee.

I remember seeing pictures like this a looking time ago so I'm pretty sure they're fake bait. At best it's an idea somebody prototyped but won't use.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Cowards just need to go all in and hang us under the plane like an overhead roller coaster.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm over 40 and I usually stand up about half of my working day. But I wouldn't want to stand in an airplane because it's cramped.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago

I'd pay extra to not have to deal with the TSA as well.

[–] bucketofcandyfloss 5 points 11 hours ago

banana chair

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

That's right, girls. Start packing on those pounds because the only airline seat that poops, then lies about it doesn't have farts in the headrest anymore.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I’ve read this repeatedly without any concept of what you’re saying but goddamn is it provocative and gets me going.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Watch these cost the same as standard seats, and the cost of standard seats go up

[–] [email protected] 32 points 18 hours ago

“You’re still a premium subscriber and have full access to our premium plan, but some of our options have changed.”

[–] [email protected] 26 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Honestly, that may actually be more comfortable for me than trying to fold my legs into the tiny rows they have now.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 19 hours ago

I am super torn here because pre-back-surgery me looks at these and says "the NERVE of these fuckers" and post-back-surgery me is like "Well that WOULD be nice yes"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Why don't they do lay-down-only seats? Seems like you'd save the same amount of space or more with vastly more comfort.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

The serious non-joke answer is the same as the one for these standing seats: emergency exit speed. When an airplane crash lands you have like less than 2 minutes to get everyone out before the huge inferno happens and roasts people. So for standing seats that pack even more people into an airplane, they have to prove that they can still get everyone out before the deadline. For laying-down seats they would have to prove the same thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Not only that, but also the mess it would make. Airlines make good money off of selling food and drinks, how are you going to consume those laying down? Very messily, that's how. More mess = more time spent cleaning the plane = less time in the air = less ticket sales. Not to mention the loss in drink and food sales from people who don't want to do that laying down. It's a lose lose for the airline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

I would pay a premium ticket price to get a lay down seat at the back of the plane and have no food service in that zone. That gets rid of the food sales loss, for which I have never paid for anyway, as I'd be paying a higher ticket price. I guess at that point there is still a concern regarding a mess, since I can bring my own snacks, but it's not like I would be getting some memory foam mattress with Egyptian cotton sheets with the way airlines would implement this anyway. I'd get a long ~~pleather~~ vinyl cushion with maybe a standard pillow.

It would be worse than what I got in the Navy, slightly, but still better than any shit airplane seat I've sat in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

There is already a premium ticket price for lay down seats on large commercial passenger jets. Many of those first class seats go all the way down.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I've been on enough planes to believe 2 minutes of evacuation time will see 5% evacuated and 95% trampled before the fiery inferno.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Remarkably, it has happened. People suddenly decide to pay attention to authority when they’re in a terrifying situation they’ve never experienced.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

What I've chosen to glean from this is that I should inflict varied and new terrors upon coworkers to help keep us on track.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

excellent, the boss will be proud of the new performance numbers, therapy will no longer be covered by insurance to improve the sense of dread.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Pop me out the side with compressed air like a decoy flare

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

"Missile inbound. Deploying passengers."

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

New ultra economy just dropped. Cheap prices, but when Russian SAMs lock on, you are now chaff.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

In the contract: obligation to flail your arms and legs widely for maximum distraction.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 21 hours ago (4 children)

People too fat

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

Why don’t they do lay-down-only seats?

Bigger and older passengers would find it more difficult to get into the top bunk than to ride a standing-only seat.

But it's all shit regardless. Boeing can barely even make planes that don't fall apart on the runway. The American airline industry's fleet is increasingly defunct. The FAA is gutted. Airports are falling into disrepare due to mismanagement. You'll be lucky to get any kind of air travel in another decade.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Solution: bring a cheap plastic chair as part of your luggage

[–] [email protected] 31 points 22 hours ago

And if the plane fails, jump out of the plane with the chair and sit down/stand up as you're about to hit the ground.

You won't receive any fall damage during the animation.

(Make sure to check patch notes, this is a 2020 update exploit)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 23 hours ago

Honestly I didn't even realize until now how good the cropping is on lemmy compared to redd*t. holy shit the number of memes that came from screenshots of twitter screenshotted on insta screenshotted on whatever the fuck but this one was profile.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How people can look at (mostly) state owned rail vs private airlines and still think the free market benefits the average person is one of life's big mysteries to me.

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