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You can also print them at the numerous Alaska Airlines kiosks at most airports
> Alaska Airlines kiosks Those don't exist. I guess you haven't traveled with Alaska for a while. https://worldaviationfestival.com/blog/airlines/alaska-airli...
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> What do hijackings have to do with a social safety net? Many of us who are middle-aged or older clearly remember what the US was like before it created the present security apparatus > passengers now know that there is nothing to be gained by cooperating with hijackers and nothing to be lost by fighting back. Yes passengers are going to rise up and fight people with guns? How do you fight back against a terrorist w…
It would probably cost less money and man-years of life to let every once in awhile some dumb terrorist blow up the plane while fruitlessly trying to access the locked cockpit to convince them to bring it to a juicier target, than it costs to put a gazillion people in long lines, tax the shit out of them for DHS (including the murderous ICE agency), and put them through security theater while also costs many many man…
You realize before TSA private contractors were doing the same thing at airports and still are at a few airports in the US?
You realize you’re suggesting something that absolutely no country in the world does as far as I know.
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> What do hijackings have to do with a social safety net? Many of us who are middle-aged or older clearly remember what the US was like before it created the present security apparatus > passengers now know that there is nothing to be gained by cooperating with hijackers and nothing to be lost by fighting back. Yes passengers are going to rise up and fight people with guns? How do you fight back against a terrorist w…
It would probably cost less money and man-years of life to let every once in awhile some dumb terrorist blow up the plane while fruitlessly trying to access the locked cockpit to convince them to bring it to a juicier target, than it costs to put a gazillion people in long lines, tax the shit out of them for DHS (including the murderous ICE agency), and put them through security theater while also costs many many man…
Opposite anecdote. I flew out of here last year:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quepos_La_Managua_Airport
Yes that’s the entire terminal, it’s an internal flight in Costa Rica on a really tiny plane. Even they have metal detectors. Costa Rica doesn’t even have a military so they aren’t a militarized state.
I have flown in an out of many airports in the south - Atlanta, Nashville, a small regional airport in South GA, Savannah, Raleigh, Charlotte, both Houston airports, Dallas, South Carolina, etc. You can try to get a gun through if you want to
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To be fair though, that horse bolted a couple of centuries ago. What other name would you call it by? There's another "united states" on the same continent. The country to the immediate south is formally known as the "United Mexican States".
But the whole hemisphere is not "Mexico". USA and Canada are not also "North Mexico". Their harmless little reminder is more correct than any of the attempted arguments against it.
Ditch the phone. The liability, tracking and mental health problems created due to modern phones has made owning one unsustainable. Email works, at worst, voip providers exist. Do you need a map? Print one. Do you need directions? Ask someone. Does the restaurant only offer app or qr, ask someone, or go somewhere else. I have never encountered a phone-related problem that could not be solved with: 1. A print out. 2.…
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or, perhaps, they are wryly pushing back against the USA capturing a generic geographic term for themselves
To be fair though, that horse bolted a couple of centuries ago. What other name would you call it by? There's another "united states" on the same continent. The country to the immediate south is formally known as the "United Mexican States".
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> What do hijackings have to do with a social safety net? Many of us who are middle-aged or older clearly remember what the US was like before it created the present security apparatus > passengers now know that there is nothing to be gained by cooperating with hijackers and nothing to be lost by fighting back. Yes passengers are going to rise up and fight people with guns? How do you fight back against a terrorist w…
It would probably cost less money and man-years of life to let every once in awhile some dumb terrorist blow up the plane while fruitlessly trying to access the locked cockpit to convince them to bring it to a juicier target, than it costs to put a gazillion people in long lines, tax the shit out of them for DHS (including the murderous ICE agency), and put them through security theater while also costs many many man…
Don't carry them with you. I'm old and I can tell you from experience... you can live life without holding a cellphone all the time. It's not as hard as you think.
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> What do hijackings have to do with a social safety net? Many of us who are middle-aged or older clearly remember what the US was like before it created the present security apparatus > passengers now know that there is nothing to be gained by cooperating with hijackers and nothing to be lost by fighting back. Yes passengers are going to rise up and fight people with guns? How do you fight back against a terrorist w…
It would probably cost less money and man-years of life to let every once in awhile some dumb terrorist blow up the plane while fruitlessly trying to access the locked cockpit to convince them to bring it to a juicier target, than it costs to put a gazillion people in long lines, tax the shit out of them for DHS (including the murderous ICE agency), and put them through security theater while also costs many many man…
How exactly would a pilot have the gun that TSA took from him?
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Only go to good parts. Like Mexico and South America in general.
In English, "America" means the USA specifically. But you knew that already and decided to just post bait.