• @Strawberry
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    546 months ago

    As a post 9/11 adult, moving to a place with really good and smooth flowing train infrastructure made me so frustrated with the stressful and unnecessary security theatre of airports worldwide

      • Queen HawlSera
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        166 months ago

        I am legitimately surprised that the TSA has not been quietly disbanded by now

        • Lev_Astov
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          136 months ago

          Too many opportunities for skimming off the top to let go.

        • Alien Nathan Edward
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          106 months ago

          people won’t fly if they don’t go through the security theater beforehand. they wildly overestimate the likelihood of terrorism because the impact is very high, so if you don’t make them take their shoes off, throw out their water and do a little security dance they’ll assume they’re going to be murdered.

          • @Jtotheb@lemmy.world
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            6 months ago

            I have yet to meet someone saying thank you while being asked to walk through the metal detector a second time. I think it’s more along the lines of “this decision was never up to us.”

            • Alien Nathan Edward
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              36 months ago

              Eh, maybe you’re right. It’s been a while. Still, hard to overstate the raw terror in the first couple years, maybe now it’s just entrenched bureaucracy

        • BolexForSoup
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          16 months ago

          Well, they can’t do that. Otherwise the private company (Clear) that gets way too much information about you in exchange for allowing you to skip the unpleasantness of the TSA wouldn’t have justification!

            • BolexForSoup
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              6 months ago

              Oh yeah my friend. They are posted up at most major airports now. It’s TSA pre-check but in private form.

      • BolexForSoup
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        6 months ago

        I was traveling around for a documentary shoot and got a little snippy with an agent once - I followed exact protocol for Li-Ion batteries for my drone and they didn’t know the policy. No I’m not throwing $100+ batteries away.

        I swear they put me on a list because the next 3 flights in a row I got “random searched.” So 4 random in a row total, and I only believe the first one was maybe actually random (I get grabbed a lot when I bring a pelican case).

        Yes, it’s my fault for getting snippy blah blah whatever.

    • @limelight79@lemm.ee
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      46 months ago

      I traveled via airline before and after 9/11, and taking trains still amazes me: I can just walk up to it with my bag and get on??? I don’t even have to go into the station if it’s not between the parking and the platform! (The station I usually use is like that.) Plus the comfortable seat with legroom…