• doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I can’t imagine wearing that shirt but seriously their security theater deserves continuous berated and the whole thing needs to be eliminated. I want 1980s airports back and a government that vhas to have a specific court order to spy on any given citizen.

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      1 year ago

      yes.

      Airplanes are secure enough already, they all have the front area locked off so hijackings are now basically a non-issue. So then the only reason to sneak something onto a plane would be to kill a lot of people, which you can do easily enough without going on an airplane. See: US schools

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      I’d like to be able to bring my 3.8 oz, half-used gel deodorant on an airplane with me. Apparently TSA isn’t smart enough to figure out that if it’s originally 3.8 oz, and half of it’s gone, then it’s somewhere under the max 3.4 oz size limit. Also, I’m probably not planning on causing damage to anyone with my deodorant, quite the opposite actually, I’m protecting them from my stank.

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      You don’t even take off your shoes anymore

      That depends if you get precheck screening, no? And what airport you are flying in/out?

      I flew in to JFK last year and I didn’t need to remove my shoes when flying in, but needed to when flying back. And then this year, I flew in through PHL and needed to do that. And I had to be scanned in the spinning tube machine 3 different times before they gave up and groped me instead.

      Compared to most places in Europe: basically just throw your stuff up on the belt and go through a metal detector.