"This welcome change reinforces both our security posture and our commitment to hospitality by having these officers on their feet and alert," a TSA spokesperson said.
Every time it comes up I have to remind people TSA has never caught a terrorist.
Some were caught before getting to TSA, or after passing the TSA screening, but never by TSA itself.
Some say we need security screening at airports. Yes! We had it before TSA. Usually run by the airport itself; An x-ray for bags, and a metal detector for people. It’ wasn’t limited to people with tickets, everyone could go through. It was basically just a gun check. Much faster and less invasive than what TSA does. And this is the important part: It was at least as effective at catching terrorists!
The most effective check on airplane nonsense aside from the simple X-ray/metal detector for guns are the passengers. Back when hijackings were in fashion and again today it’s not the TSA strip searching kids and wiping down grandmas for bomb residue. It’s the agreement between a bunch of strangers that if someone acts a fool they get their teeth kicked in and duck taped to a chair.
The reinforced door on airplanes is also probably the only thing really needed. It’s now nearly impossible to actually hijack a plane without tools that are hard to smuggle on to a plane.
I remember that. When hijackings were common, everyone knew to sit tight, follow directions, and it would be fine in the end. Then 9/11 changed that calculus. Now every passenger will immediately fight for/with their lives to stop it.
That, and the hardened cockpit door you can’t even shoot your way into anymore.
“MetaCops aren’t allowed to lean against their Unit—makes them look lazy and weak. They can almost lean, look like they’re leaning, they can even brandish a big leaning-against-the-car 'tude like this particular individual, but they can’t lean.”
TSA should be abolished.
Every time it comes up I have to remind people TSA has never caught a terrorist. Some were caught before getting to TSA, or after passing the TSA screening, but never by TSA itself.
Some say we need security screening at airports. Yes! We had it before TSA. Usually run by the airport itself; An x-ray for bags, and a metal detector for people. It’ wasn’t limited to people with tickets, everyone could go through. It was basically just a gun check. Much faster and less invasive than what TSA does. And this is the important part: It was at least as effective at catching terrorists!
The most effective check on airplane nonsense aside from the simple X-ray/metal detector for guns are the passengers. Back when hijackings were in fashion and again today it’s not the TSA strip searching kids and wiping down grandmas for bomb residue. It’s the agreement between a bunch of strangers that if someone acts a fool they get their teeth kicked in and duck taped to a chair.
The reinforced door on airplanes is also probably the only thing really needed. It’s now nearly impossible to actually hijack a plane without tools that are hard to smuggle on to a plane.
I remember that. When hijackings were common, everyone knew to sit tight, follow directions, and it would be fine in the end. Then 9/11 changed that calculus. Now every passenger will immediately fight for/with their lives to stop it.
That, and the hardened cockpit door you can’t even shoot your way into anymore.
“MetaCops aren’t allowed to lean against their Unit—makes them look lazy and weak. They can almost lean, look like they’re leaning, they can even brandish a big leaning-against-the-car 'tude like this particular individual, but they can’t lean.”
Snow Crash
Been meaning to read that book.
It’s pretty good but there’s one particular scene late in the book I legitimately questioned
Mark Zuckerbergs favorite book, guy must have absolutely dogshit reading comprehension