• ditty@lemm.ee
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      1 month ago

      In the recent context of air travel, it refers to sitting idly for your entire flight. No books, movies, music, nothing.

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        1 month ago

        That sounds… horrible, flying sucks enough as-is I have no idea why anyone would subject themselves to even more torture lol

        I could see an argument for a waiting room or being in the bathroom with nothing but your own thoughts…but a potentially multi-hour flight?

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          1 month ago

          As long as the plane is quiet, it’s not too bad. I usually drift in and out of sleep. Then again most of my flights are around two hours.

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          I think the argument is, that you will only remember activities, but not idling. So if you’re busy during the flight, then you will remember that. But if you do nothing at all, then you won’t remember anything. If you don’t like flying, that’s an advantage, because you won’t remember the flight.

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            29 days ago

            I remember when I waste my time. An experience so extremely boring would stay with me long after the fact.

            And I am someone who don’t sit on my phone on the toilet, because I like being alone with my thoughts.

            So that argument really would only work with people who don’t think much anyway.

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        1 month ago

        Sugma kids stealing another one of my hobbies 😾😾 (srs tho how can you do any of those, I get so nauseous)