There’s a reason I’m avoiding airline travel chaos right now — and it’s not just one thing. It’s the compounding absurdity of an industry that’s decided customer experience is optional. Southwest Airlines is reportedly testing what amounts to a “fat tax” — charging passengers extra if they don’t fit into…
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Lunar Hotel Reservations Are Here — And They Cost More Than Your House
Recently, a startup began accepting lunar hotel reservations — not for a property that exists, but for one that might exist, orbiting the Moon sometime in the unspecified future. The deposit? A quarter of a million dollars. Galactic Resource Utilization Space (GRU Space) is the company behind this. They’re asking…
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Why Passengers Keep Grabbing Bags During Evacuations
The evacuation slide is deployed. The cabin lights are screaming red. Smoke is doing that low, theatrical crawl along the ceiling. Somewhere up front, a flight attendant is shouting words that should not require interpretation. And yet — arms go up. Not in surrender. In retrieval. This is the problem…