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All Hail Taylor Swift, Person of the Year!

Taylor Swift threatens to sue student who tracks her private jet

A student who tracks the private jets of celebrities says Taylor Swift's lawyers have threatened to sue him for sharing her flight information online.

Jack Sweeney uses publicly available data to track the take-offs and landings of planes belonging to the wealthy and posts them one day later.

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He added that he received the threatening letter after media outlets began scrutinising Swift's carbon footprint.

In 2022, Swift topped the list of celebrities with the highest private jet CO2 emissions, according to digital marketing firm Yard.

The organisation found that her jet emission were about 1,185 times more than the average person's total annual emissions.

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On Sunday, she is due to fly to Las Vegas to see her boyfriend play in the NFL Super Bowl, one day after her concert in Tokyo.

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We can't have tax-dodging billionaires having to slum it in first class or not do want they want whenever they want to do it. They're entitled to, right? Everyone else should be expected to modify their behaviour, but not them.

Sorry for the interruption. Please continue discussing which pop star is "better".
 
angrysoba said:
Might be difficult to compare but I’m pretty sure Michael Jackson has sold more albums than Swift. Of course, comparing sales of vinyl with sales of downloads, especially with a larger market, would seem to favour Swift but even then I think Jackson is out in front.

Michael Jackson has touched many generations in ways that Swift hopefully won’t. Allegedly.
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On surface this looks like the kind of suit that will not hold up, but at the same time I wonder if the information about fuel consumption and the like is aided in any real way by specifying locations, and whether it is essential to the information for it to be so timely.

I'm just thinking that if the person being sued were to withhold the actual location of flights for a specified period of time, and just publish the pertinent consumption figures with a note that for the safety of the performer the location, though known, will be withheld for a month, there wouldn't be much of a case. In fact, the performer's safety would be greater than if she were to fly commercially, where all flights are easily tracked.
 
lionking said:
If MAGA types get triggered by the immensely talented but generally inoffensive Taylor, I’d like to introduce them to Amyl and the Sniffers.
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Are they big in Australia? I've only just come across them, and I think they're brilliant. Hope they tour in the UK soon.

I'd much rather see Amy and the gang in a sweaty club with the support band in the crowd watching the main act and the musicians staffing their own merch stalls than sit in the top row in a stadium, so far away from the stage even the figure on the giant monitors looks tiny.
 
arthwollipot said:
Taylor has done something that nobody else has been able to do: get Republicans to care about climate change.
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Nah, republicans have long noticed the hypocrisy of rich lefties preaching to the poor masses about climate from their mansions and private jets.
 
ahhell said:
Nah, republicans have long noticed the hypocrisy of rich lefties preaching to the poor masses about climate from their mansions and private jets.
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That doesn't mean they care about it. It just means they find it politically beneficial to point it out.

If the Republicans actually cared they'd do something about climate change and then point out the hypocrisy. They don't do ****, because they don't now, nor will they ever, give a **** about climate change.
 
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plague311 said:
That doesn't mean they care about it. It just means they find it politically beneficial to point it out.

If the Republicans actually cared they'd do something about climate change and then point out the hypocrisy. They don't do ****, because they don't now, nor will they ever, give a **** about climate change.
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As they use to say in the Nixon era, "follow the money." Republicans don't care about climate change because they are bought and paid for whores of the fossil fuels industry.

The Koch family fortune is based on petroleum products. And they invest that fortune in buying Republicans at every level of American government. Moving away from fossil fuels is not in their interest.
 
So, have my well reasoned arguments made Taylor Swift think twice about flying in one of her private jets from Tokyo to LA to watch her latest beefcake run around a field chasing a ball?

Please let me know tomorrow!
 
Ivor the Engineer said:
So, have my well reasoned arguments made Taylor Swift think twice about flying in one of her private jets from Tokyo to LA to watch her latest beefcake run around a field chasing a ball?

Please let me know tomorrow!
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He generally doesn't chase a ball. He has a ball, and other people chase him.

You could otherwise describe what he is doing as pulling a years income in a few minutes. From an economists standpoint, a prudent use of time.
 
I have a bet on the number of times the camera goes to a shot of Taylor Swift at Superbowl. I've gone with 36, or once every five minutes of game time, which is expected to be 180 minutes.
 
The Atheist said:
I have a bet on the number of times the camera goes to a shot of Taylor Swift at Superbowl. I've gone with 36, or once every five minutes of game time, which is expected to be 180 minutes.
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I've tried to make Taylor related bets with my wife and she accuses me of blasphemy.
 
The Atheist said:
I have a bet on the number of times the camera goes to a shot of Taylor Swift at Superbowl. I've gone with 36, or once every five minutes of game time, which is expected to be 180 minutes.
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It's a drinking competition waiting to happen.
 
I'm hoping that by some freak accident the ball will be thrown in the wrong direction and Taylor Swift will catch it and then throw it back and accidentally score the winning goal for whichever team is the one her boyfriend isn't on. That would generate, I feel, a satisfying amount of fuss from football fans, Taylor Swift fans, and the police called to respond to the destructive riots that followed.

I don't care for football or Taylor Swift but I do love drama.
 
Ian Osborne said:
It's a drinking competition waiting to happen.
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That's what I thought, too, but the game started at noon here, so a touch early.

Just on a side note, I know nothing about Taylor's boyfriend other than he plays for the Chiefs.

As of now, I know something about him - he's a petulant little twat. I don't even know why, but he threw a spat and basically head-butted his own coach in the first half. Grumpy little man.
 
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