Comment on Technically Correct

fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Big caveat

  The final decision rests with the TSA officer on whether an item is allowed through the checkpoint.

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  • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ah yes, the "rules only apply when I say they do" rule. Much legitimate.

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    • bss03@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Inconsistent enforcement of “the rules” is the most common form of systematic marginalization.

      It’s also easy of centrists to excuse, since it could happen to anyone, even when the statistic show to it is overwhelmingly correlated with some protected trait.

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I mean sure, but it theoretically stops people arguing and threatening to try and bring stuff they shouldn’t really be bringing through, as being able to point at that will end a lot of arguments… Equally though, it makes a lot of sense as otherwise you’d have “ah yes this bomb isn’t banned because I’ve switched out a molecule in the explosive for an analogue”

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      • Hegar@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I don't think they need to make the enforcement of rules ultimately arbitrary to prevent explosives. You already can't bring explosives. The molecules involved are not relevant.

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      • snooggums@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        If there is a list of acceptable things, then those specific things are not things they “shouldn’t be bringing on”.

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      • redisdead@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        What actually happens is that some random power tripping TSA agent decides to annoy the fuck out of people he doesn’t like, and when challenged he is protected by this rule.

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  • bradinutah@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    See, flying isn’t for people who plan. It’s for people who roll 20s and not 1s. You know, lucky people. That’s the message here.

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  • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    And it’s not the type of crowd that will take a ‘technically correct’ in good sport.

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