• Queen HawlSera
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    167 months ago

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

    • Lev_Astov
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      137 months ago

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

    • Alien Nathan Edward
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      107 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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        7 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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          37 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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      17 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!

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          7 months ago

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