The TSA Must Go (2016)
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The TSA Must Go (2016)
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#2According to https://www.transtats.bts.gov/, there were 719 million airline passengers last year. The average human lifespan is 79 years.
Assuming each passenger wastes an hour being molested and arriving overearly due to uncertainty about how long the molestation could take, this means the TSA effectively kills over one thousand people every year.
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#3According to https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ , there were 719 million airline passengers last year. The average human lifespan is 79 years. Assuming each passenger wastes an hour being molested and arriving overearly due to uncertainty about how long the molestation could take, this means the TSA effectively kills over one thousand people every year .
It's actually worse than that. Since 9/11 and the birth of the TSA, a number of people who need to travel a moderate distance (say, a drive of a few hours) have chosen to drive when they might have chosen to fly before. Air travel is statistically safer per mile travelled than driving. I don't have the link handy, but it has been calculated that this change in travel habits has resulted in an increase of driving fatalities of over a thousand a year. More people have actually died in traffic fatalities due to the TSA than died on 9/11.
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#4According to https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ , there were 719 million airline passengers last year. The average human lifespan is 79 years. Assuming each passenger wastes an hour being molested and arriving overearly due to uncertainty about how long the molestation could take, this means the TSA effectively kills over one thousand people every year .
It's actually worse than that. Since 9/11 and the birth of the TSA, a number of people who need to travel a moderate distance (say, a drive of a few hours) have chosen to drive when they might have chosen to fly before. Air travel is statistically safer per mile travelled than driving. I don't have the link handy, but it has been calculated that this change in travel habits has resulted in an increase of driving fata…
How do you know they chose to not fly _because of the TSA_? What if it's the opposite and they chose not to fly out of (statistically ridiculous) fear of terrorism?
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#5According to https://www.transtats.bts.gov/ , there were 719 million airline passengers last year. The average human lifespan is 79 years. Assuming each passenger wastes an hour being molested and arriving overearly due to uncertainty about how long the molestation could take, this means the TSA effectively kills over one thousand people every year .
It's actually worse than that. Since 9/11 and the birth of the TSA, a number of people who need to travel a moderate distance (say, a drive of a few hours) have chosen to drive when they might have chosen to fly before. Air travel is statistically safer per mile travelled than driving. I don't have the link handy, but it has been calculated that this change in travel habits has resulted in an increase of driving fata…
I've been on Amtrak long distance routes a few times over the past five years. Every single time, I have met someone at one of my meals who has said they choose train travel specifically to avoid all the security hassle. And then are always on the older end of the age spectrum. Sure, this is anecdotal, but I think it hints at an unease by older folks about the whole screening process and so they completely avoid it when they have the travel time to spare.
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually worse than that. Since 9/11 and the birth of the TSA, a number of people who need to travel a moderate distance (say, a drive of a few hours) have chosen to drive when they might have chosen to fly before. Air travel is statistically safer per mile travelled than driving. I don't have the link handy, but it has been calculated that this change in travel habits has resulted in an increase of driving fata…
How do you know they chose to not fly _because of the TSA_? What if it's the opposite and they chose not to fly out of (statistically ridiculous) fear of terrorism?
I don't fly because of the TSA. I have zero fear of terrorism on my flight.
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#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
How do you know they chose to not fly _because of the TSA_? What if it's the opposite and they chose not to fly out of (statistically ridiculous) fear of terrorism?
I don't fly because of the TSA. I have zero fear of terrorism on my flight.
Obviously you/we don't represent the majority. GP is a valid point, in that without polling the people who are choosing to drive [0], we don't know their actual motivation.
[0] Don't give the thugs any ideas
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's actually worse than that. Since 9/11 and the birth of the TSA, a number of people who need to travel a moderate distance (say, a drive of a few hours) have chosen to drive when they might have chosen to fly before. Air travel is statistically safer per mile travelled than driving. I don't have the link handy, but it has been calculated that this change in travel habits has resulted in an increase of driving fata…
I've been on Amtrak long distance routes a few times over the past five years. Every single time, I have met someone at one of my meals who has said they choose train travel specifically to avoid all the security hassle. And then are always on the older end of the age spectrum. Sure, this is anecdotal, but I think it hints at an unease by older folks about the whole screening process and so they completely avoid it w…
IMHO the dining car skews towards older people, as they're more likely to have booked rooms. My sample size is 2 (trips and meals).
Re: The TSA Must Go (2016)
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't fly because of the TSA. I have zero fear of terrorism on my flight.
Obviously you/we don't represent the majority. GP is a valid point, in that without polling the people who are choosing to drive [0], we don't know their actual motivation. [0] Don't give the thugs any ideas
If the increase in driving happened at the same time as an increase in TSA, then you don't need polling.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Obviously you/we don't represent the majority. GP is a valid point, in that without polling the people who are choosing to drive [0], we don't know their actual motivation. [0] Don't give the thugs any ideas
If the increase in driving happened at the same time as an increase in TSA, then you don't need polling.
Correlation is not causation. For example (as was said), an alternative mechanism is that someone actually believes the scaremongering narrative broadcast on TV, and is choosing driving to avoid the bogeyman^Wterrorists.