• vrek@programming.dev
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    Look… We don’t allow liquids cause they may be explosive, so put your possible explosive with all these other potential explosives in the busiest and most congested and concentrated area of this airport…i think I may of found a flaw in this plan

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      If there ever was proof the TSA is a clown show security theater it’s in this bin. Too bad it’s never going away because the average citizen simply doesn’t care and no administration wants to be responsible for making a bunch of poorly educated government employees lose their jobs.

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        Well I wouldn’t say no administration is above the responsibility of making a bunch of government employees lose their jobs.

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      Presumably the liquid explosives aren’t going to explode when diluted with loads of water and energy drink

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      The liquids are not allowed because they mess with explosive detectors. Not because anyone thinks they are dangerous.

      It’s not “we don’t allow liquids cause they may be explosive”. It’s “we don’t allow liquids cause if you have any in your luggage, we won’t be able to correctly detect explosives you might also have”.

      That’s why some airports now allow liquids. Newer scanners can detect explosives even in luggages that also contain liquids.

      Nobody thinks your bottle of water is dangerous. But your bottle of water will prevent the explosives detector from working.

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        Why does the bottle of water have to be scanned with the rest of your luggage? Could it not simply be separated from the rest of your luggage?

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      I feel like their job is to stop people from blowing up terminals and planes. They literally can’t stop terrorism on the public side of the gate. They have no means.

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    Too dangerous to allow a liter of liquid on a plane.

    Let’s mix them all together in an airport where nothing bad can happen.

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      what if terrorists brought actual bomb juice and poured in in there and then just flicked a match into there and the whole fuckin airport blew up? things to think about when youre on your way to the airport.

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        Every time I’m at an airport I’m just struck at how much it’s changed since I was young.

        In the olden days, it was like a big, clean bus station, people were free and happy and kids were running around, no barriers or guardrails anywhere. Now it feels like a funeral procession getting on a plane with the amount of searching and scanning and poking and prodding and massive walls of rules being posted about what you can’t do or say and one-way labyrinths of security hell.

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        Or something which acts like a catalyst to make all kinds of soda explosives! (I’m not a chemist, so please don’t judge me for this ridiculous statement)

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      The liquids are not allowed because they mess with explosive detectors. Not because anyone thinks they are dangerous.

      It’s not “too dangerous to allow liquid on a plane”. It’s “we can’t detect explosives in your luggage if there are also liquids in it”.

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        That doesn’t make sense. If that was the only reason, it would be easier and safer to just get people to take their liquid, in its container, out of the bag at scanning time

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        Why can’t the liquid be allowed on the plane after the rest of your luggage is scanned then?

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        I thought that somebody could sneak a explosive liquid into a plane via cup or bottle, and that the liquid could look so much like coffee or water or fuckin diet Pepsi that the security people were like “nah bro we aren’t gonna test it”.

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    Lot of dead people in an airport after someone with an ammonia based cleaner they have to dump out right after someone else had some bleach they had to pour out.

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    anybody wonder what they do with that jungle juice…? cause the soda machines are tastin’ kinda funky…