kreskin
@kreskin@lemmy.world
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 1 day ago:
Any chance? Why, are you thinking we’ve tried everything? or anything at all?
I’ll assume good intent for a minute that your question is an honest one.
Lets start with people having rights in airports. Maybe you miss your plane if you assert those rights but tsa agents with a few days of training should not wield the absolute authority they wield. They are trained little better than rent a cops and their authority should be commensurate with that. They should be accountable for the experience they provide to the public. They should accept feedback, on a curve of course, and the bad TSA personnel should be fired. They need to be accountable for some level of professionalism when interacting with the public.
TSA should be trained in deescalation skills. Police should as well. This absolutist thuggery cops and tsa agents like to leverage should not be permitted in a civilized society, and there should be real avenues for the public to cite abuse. If we are honest with ourselves, there arent even handed ways to cite and act on abuse, and thats a reflection of abject effing failure of law enforcement and tsa’s leadership. Yes, there are bad travelers, but theres bad authority figures as well, and the thoroughly planned lack of oversight shows that pretty amply. Where is the accountability with these little tyrants?
From there lets talk about their budget. Its bloated. They have ai programs for detecting threats that are completely unproven. Their equipment deployments are expensive and poorly managed. They should be given barebones security guard level funding because thats exactly what they are. Lets not pretend these are crime fighting heros. They are overpaid mallcops.
Cargo containers are not thoroughly searched-- we trust senders to be honest about whats in them. TSA’s budget bloat can be redirected to beef up cargo security.
There are redundancies and inadequacies in the current process. Why not have some new process flows for bag scanning? Bag scanning is a chokepoint for people that should be distributed. The airport layout should optimize for this. Its not.
Why has TSA allowed Clear and other companies to sell a nicer version for the rich, that literally closes the walkway to allow their clients to saunter through the queue in a privelaged manner? That should never have been allowed. My time is not theirs to sell. That needs to be ended and the people who approved it fired.
Why am I not allowed to say anything that a TSA agent doesnt like? This is America, and free speech applies even in airports. They have taken this “terrorism” to an absurd degree and they need adult supervision. There should be no such thing as “contempt of TSA agent” that ejects you from your flight. I can consent to security, but I do not consent to mallcops being empowered to cancel my travel on their whim if they are having a bad day and feel bad about their life choices. I dont care if they dont like my tone or a joke of mine. Does it threaten anyone? No.
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 6 days ago:
Itd be easier for everyone if we instead brought all the people to a central place, some big building or walled camp where they could live and be searched constantly.
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 6 days ago:
TSA never did work properly. Testers were ablke to get weapons and explosives through tsa 95% of the time. TSA is purely security theater.
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 1 week ago:
If they want to bring him back for a few seconds and the instantly eliminate him in some painful way, I’d pay for that. But lets keep the Shatner acting to an absolute minimum, please.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 2 weeks ago:
Designated Douchebag Dumbass Dingeberry Disappointing Dipshit
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 2 weeks ago:
imprisoning dissidents will be a big step. That will mean its time to stop posting on reddit and lemmy.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
So If I am as vehemntly against murderers as they are about murdering, I’m as bad as the murderer?
You’ve nicely summed up centrism.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 3 weeks ago:
Your calling genocide a “single issue” as if it were equally as important as school vouchers is an unserious approach to politics.
- Comment on The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high 4 weeks ago:
I had a particularly bad ingrown toenail removed once and my whole body suddenly relaxed. It felt like even my scalp was relaxing. I think chronic pain must be very stressful for your entire body.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
“pulling out all the stops” probably means removing the minorities and anti-fascists from the tesla payroll.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
Its awfully close to a dumpster on wheels. Just needs some flames coming out of it and a bigger ‘tesla’ logo and it’ll be perfect.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 4 weeks ago:
cybertruck is barely even a truck at all. its a truck shaped car for rich assholes to look rugged.
- Comment on Potentially habitable planet TRAPPIST-1b may have a carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere, The innermost Earth-like planet in the famous TRAPPIST-1 system might be capable of supporting a thick atmosphere 2 months ago:
Maybe oceans of beer.