Comment on YSK that United has significantly escalated their war against basic economy passengers

HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• candybrie@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They phased out back scatter x-ray like a decade ago. They only use millimeter wave, which doesn’t have ionizing radiation.

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Regardless; the TSA was caught lying about the capabilities of the machines, and I’m just not willing to step foot through one. The ionizing radiation doesn’t worry me, because I was never flying frequently enough for it to be an issue.

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• Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Same. Flying has become such a terrible experience that I refuse to take part in it anymore. With the overbooking, kicking people off planes, price-gouging customers, constantly late flights, stranding people without compensation, people packed in so tight that no one is comfortable, lack of cleanliness, constitutional rights violations, stealing luggage and items in luggage, violations of people’s bodies…I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to call it cruelty to the passengers.

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  • Archer@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also the planes sometimes fall apart now

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• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I will ALWAYS get the grope if I avoid the cancer box.

  I have a deep-seated fear of the cancer box. I was okay with it - I get x-rays a bit for ongoing Achilles issues - until I learned that when Boston TSA asked the FAA what the risks are of standing nearby it for hours at a time, the response was

  No.  We're not telling. STFU & GBtW. 
  

  That’s when I decided I’d like to avoid it.

  What I’ve learned:

  • sometimes they’re bored and don’t wanna do it so they’ll wave you through an arch and you’re out.
  • don’t call it a cancer box to an obvious type-a failed-cop TSA agent or you’ll have a discussion you’ll want to get out of quickly
  • sometimes they want to be dinks. If you have any shame - not me, ex-army - it may not be comfy to show a dad-bod to the other passengers. Take the hazing.
  • usually they roll their eyes and call the noob over and it’s a perfunctory process.

  So there.

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  • teuto@lemmy.teuto.icu ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I used to work in a job that involved handling radioactive materials. We had dosimeter badges to track long term exposure to radiation. One pass through the full body scanner at a TSA checkpoint would make the dosimeter badge come back from the lab at greater than monthly allowable exposure. I’ll take the grope.

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    • IMNOTCRAZYINSTITUTION@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “why are cancer rates increasing?”

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      • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It’s very hard for me to care if cancer rates for TSA agents go through the roof; they willingly signed up for that shit, so fuck 'em.

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Is your name Dean?

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  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is neither Dean nor Sam.

    Besides, a motorcycle is far more fuel efficient; I typically get about 40-45mpg, v. 12mpg for a '67 Impala.

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• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Same.

  I will road trip or take a train instead of flying. I’d rather be on the road twelve hours than in a plane for one.

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• aeharding@vger.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Road trip is more eco friendly anyways.

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