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US airlines are pushing to remove protections for passengers and add more fees

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663 points duxup | 4 comments | 24 Sep 25 12:30 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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doodaddy ◴[24 Sep 25 13:12 UTC] No.45359838[source]▶
> Instead of the clear, itemized pricing system that passengers currently rely on, airlines could hide fees until later in the booking process…

They call what we have now “clear”? Where when looking at a page of flights I don’t know how much the multitude of economy/economy+/economy++/premium economy/business/business++ seats will cost until I click on each flight? Where every carrier offers slightly different variations of these seats such that I can’t cross-shop on Google Flights?

Is that the clear and transparent system the airlines are complaining about?

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code_for_monkey ◴[24 Sep 25 13:21 UTC] No.45359952[source]▶
yeah, now imagine when its even worse
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Mistletoe ◴[24 Sep 25 13:30 UTC] No.45360072[source]▶
I’ve seen the movie Brazil and I wish more people had so they would have voted better.
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smt88 ◴[24 Sep 25 13:53 UTC] No.45360421[source]▶
I'm not sure why you think that would've helped. A lot of the people who won't shut up about 1984 and Ayn Rand still vote for the closest thing to monarchy they can find on their ballots.
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ReptileMan ◴[24 Sep 25 15:46 UTC] No.45361984[source]▶
Okay - democrats will push us in 1984 dystopia where they force you to accept that reality is what they tell you, and republicans will push us in low life high tech Cyberpunk dystopia where corporations reign supreme. Choose your poison.
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buellerbueller ◴[24 Sep 25 15:57 UTC] No.45362164{3}[source]▶
oh, like that classic Democrat line "tylenol causes autism"?
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1. ReptileMan ◴[24 Sep 25 16:36 UTC] No.45362764{4}[source]▶
We are talking about the same hepatotoxic compound that is absurdly easy to OD on but it gives negligible relief on stuff you should just power trough? That anecdotal - is barely better than a pacebo?

Personally - I think that the two main drivers of autism are people having kids later and too high rates of smart people intermarriage.

Of course Trump should not have said Tylenol, but paracetamol.

And there are some very mild hints in the data that they are correlated, but not enough sigmas.

And of course it could be Tylenol and something else with which ot interacts. And autism is so hard to be linked to anything because of how big the umbrella is and that we have such high delay to diagnosis that we will never know. Not taking medications when not really necessary is probably a good precaution principle

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2. troyvit ◴[24 Sep 25 17:19 UTC] No.45363310[source]▶
But if he can't say "acetaminophen" how can he say "paracetamol"?
3. buellerbueller ◴[24 Sep 25 17:33 UTC] No.45363478[source]▶
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

My point is merely that the lie against reality is being perpetrated by Republicans. You never really addressed that.

4. lupusreal ◴[24 Sep 25 18:02 UTC] No.45363854[source]▶
Nobody in America says paracetamol. The generic drug is called acetaminophen in America.

Anyway, it works very well for the aches and pains that come from manual labor.