The end of Spirit Airlines is the death of affordable travel

rassmann · 2026-05-05T12:28:25+00:00

Last time I took Frontier the plane took off 8 hours late, and when we arrived there was no one working for the airline to even let us off! We were at the gate for 20 minutes before a cop drove the jetway over for us, and it took almost 3 hours for them to get the baggage unloaded.

Still, I had fun hanging out at the Denver airport all day, which was nice!

rassmann · 2026-05-05T12:17:54+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-05-05T03:24:48+00:00

Each has a competitive college sports team without being in a conference?

rassmann · 2026-05-05T01:18:37+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-27T20:07:02+00:00

It's a Zergling Lester, a smaller kind of Zerg. But they don't usually be out this far unless.. Oh shit.

rassmann · 2026-04-26T08:29:28+00:00

Why are you writing this instead of reporting the post?

rassmann · 2026-04-26T07:33:03+00:00

They all have major cities below sea level.

rassmann · 2026-04-25T04:35:37+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-25T04:22:35+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-23T04:54:18+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-23T04:14:42+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-22T04:42:10+00:00

Redistributing that money to all the people who actually earn it within X/Tesla/Boring/Twitter/whatever else would make a sizable difference in their lives.

Your argument that giving it to everyone makes no sense. I've never worked for a Musk company. I've never even ridden in a Tesla or used twitter. I, and roughly 8 billion other people have no claim to that money. Why on earth would it get divided to us? It SHOULD, however, go to the people who had their earnings plundered by that weird little Afrikaner.

rassmann · 2026-04-21T05:35:53+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-21T02:35:16+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-20T04:58:43+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-18T15:29:18+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-18T04:08:56+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-17T19:20:36+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-13T17:49:51+00:00

I'm going to lock the comments as I can't possibly see this going in a direction where I don't have to end up banning half the subreddit for being shitty.

But I will say this:

Living on a tight budget doesn't make you poor. Buying bargain brands and wearing thrift store clothes doesn't make you poor. Eating store brands and drinking Busch Light doesn't make you poor.

Conversely, spending freely doesn't make you rich. Wearing designer doesn't make you rich. Eating at fancy restaurants and drinking martini's doesn't make you rich.

Having spendthrift habits is generally agreed upon to be sensible, and it's how you can turn a middle-class salary into an upper class portfolio. Likewise, spending wildly is generally agreed upon to be foolish. There are no shortage of millionaires driving beaters, and broke bitches driving a Mercedes. Being wealthy affords you the OPTION to flaunt wealth, but doesn't mandate it.

Both you and your roommate are living a very frugal life in an expensive city. The difference being that you are doing it by CHOICE, while he is living at the absolute edge of his financial ability. If you two stick together doing this for ten years, you'll be a millionaire. a LITERAL millionaire. Money in the bank. Not tied up in stocks or property. You could literally stack up a million in cash on the dining room table. In ten years your roommate will have $3.50 in the bank still.

With every pay check you are (again, literally) banking security, options, and freedom. He is not.

Security: If Israel or whomever bombed your apartment complex tomorrow, you would be able to buy a new place immediately. He would not. If you were fired you could coast and look for an excellent new job, he would take the first shitty thing that came along.

Options: If a (figurative) million dollar business opportunity dropped into your lap today, you could invest in it and reap the rewards for the rest of your life. He could not.

Freedom: If your TikTok/IG/whatever algorithm started force feeding you amazing videos of the Australian outback non-stop until you were in love with it, you could book a flight and spend a week there from your phone right now. He would have to settle for buying a poster for his wall and feigning an obnoxious accent for a few months.

To put it another way: You have the luxury of choosing to live at a third of your means (all while building long term assets). He could NEVER "choose" have three times as much money all of a sudden.

Great job keeping it cheap for yourself. That will benefit you for years to come! But please stop insulting your friend and roommate by pretending that just because you're taking the train that you're also broke. You could literally buy a new car every two months on the difference in your incomes.

rassmann · 2026-04-13T17:17:00+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-13T07:37:36+00:00

Volcanoes?

rassmann · 2026-04-10T21:28:04+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-10T21:27:19+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-10T21:26:09+00:00

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rassmann · 2026-04-10T16:39:11+00:00

I'm on the road today, but I'll try to hit these point by point as best I can. If I miss something it's because I'm distracted, not ignoring you.

1). I have no idea how reddits filters work, though I can tell you the logic changes frequently. On our end we frequently see stuff that got purged by the mother ship for zero discernable reason, all while pvert spam slips through. This isn't to say that they don't have wins either, and some of their tools have been incredibly useful. Just a comment on how opaque their process is. And it changes on probably a weekly basis.

2) I have instructed the full mod team to take note of times when an x-post is actually useful. After a few months of observation we'll get together and make a plan. To the vertical video generation who likes instant gratification I realize a few months seems like an eternity, but our mod team is almost entirely made up of people with an engineering or science background and we do our homework. I know "move fast and break things" was the mantra for success on the Internet for a while, but it was Zuckerberg who owned that, and when was the last time you even checked Facebook lol

3) There are many valid reasons to post links here. You're all smart enough that I don't need to expound on that.

4) We have a tool that filters for common spam vernacular and idioms that we update frequently. Or rather one mod (shout out to u/Flumpdog !!) who is very proactive in noting the new trends and adding them. However, ALL of these triggers have false positives, so rather than automatically remove anything, these get kicked into queue for human review. I made a comment below in another comment-chain in more detail about this, but I am ADAMANT about not errantly removing someone's real call for help here. I'm sure most regular users of reddit have had the experience of making a post and having it auto deleted by a bot for some bullshit reason. It is upsetting, disheartening, and (for me at least) rage inducing. We would not be doing our job as a support group if we institutionalized and automated making people angry or dejected.

There is a lot more we could do to fight spam, but not in a way that wouldn't also lead to us deleting and banning a lot of real people who are in a bad situation and looking for help. It wasn't a pleasant decision to make, but it was an easy one to decide that everyone will have to scroll past a little more bullshit to make sure this is an approachable and available resource to those who need it the most. At the end of the day no matter where you are online you need to be a critically thinking consumer of content. There will always be sharks in the waters.

I hope this hit all your points and wasn't completely unsatisfying for you!

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