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Comment by bongripper | Hacker News Reader

It's unsustainable and bad for the environment.

How?

Popularizing travel to Indonesia is about as far as you can go from the US, and has similar carbon footprint to driving across north America five or six times solo.

This is like complaining about the private jets of billionaires. It’s a niche thing which doesn’t have much impact in the grand scheme of things.

But I guess it is a bit ironic for the ones who are trying to “connect with nature” by traveling from Boston to Java.

Take a sailboat. Its probably lower carbon impact than driving to your local park.

It's also prohibitively expensive and takes over a year to get the experience and skills necessary to safely do.

Do you have some evidence that it must be prohibitively expensive or was that just like the first idle thought that came to your head?

This is not Reddit. Unsubstantiated personal attacks are not welcome here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

A more constructive comment would be: “Actually, it’s not that expensive, here is evidence to back up my claim or experience…”

The burden of proof is in the one making a claim. It's not a personal attack to question whether a quip if this sort was just an idle thought especially when their claim accompanied no evidence. Please be more factually accurate next time and not so quick to slander with false rule violation claims.

>Unsubstantiated personal attacks are not welcome here.

If I'm going to burn my account with that kind of rule violations it will be a seething insult to get my money worth to the point whatever indiscretion you perceive seems utterly tame. Please.

>Reddit

Reddit style false rules violation smear campaigns (often designed as way to censor an unliked opinion) are exactly the 'contribution' your comment brings. Congrats for this message presenting what you purported to avoid!

Nah, you’re the asshole here, bud.

Cool, so this is basically reddit. Calling someone asshole is fine so long as as you feel your argument or superiority (or at least popular opinion) is sound.

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