Tired of waiting winning yet?
Security lines at JFK airport, NYC
Submitted 3 weeks ago by slaacaa@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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slaacaa@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
nasquamesse@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Pleease Mr. President, no more winning!
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Mr. President, it’s too much winning!
stumu415@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Good thing the US has a high speed railway network like China, Japan, Europe or Morocco, so you don’t need to get on a plane. Oh… wait…
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I hear Elon Musk is getting right on that. These conservatives are so efficient and successful! Good thing we keep finding new tax breaks for them.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why don’t they just let people take their assault rifles onto the plane such that they can defend themselves? Are they stupid?
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You dont give up your right to free speech when you get on a plane, why around you give up the right to bear arms?
- line from an old prairie home companion when I was a kid.
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Is there any other country on earth that stops working altogether once a year?
d00ery@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Lol I was looking into this the other day. From what I understand it’s to prevent too much power being with any one group in US govt …
Short answer is no, most countries have rules that see public servants (govt. employees) paid even when a departments budget has not been agreed - for example Belgium en.wikipedia.org/…/2010–2011_Belgian_government_f…
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Thank you. To give another example, in Italy it is necessary to approve the budget by 31st of December. If this doesn’t happen the budget is controlled by the government but with limitations and only one month at a time. I think it’s a good compromise not to let the country collapse.
Rothe@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Only once a year? Are you talking about the US, because it seems to have stopped working quite some time ago.
xSikes@feddit.online 3 weeks ago
The sad thing about this is that most Trump supporters probably don’t fly because either they’re always in their own bubble and/or can’t afford to. So they can’t relate to this, so it’s a non-issue sadly.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So they get to punish others for doing the things they choose not to do.
Again.
psoul@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They don’t fly because God invented the car, Jesus built the highways and St Peter gave republicans the car keys.
Why share a plane with other Americans when you can just drive around, as god intended ?
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
To be fair, road trips ARE a thing, and it’s not just because of cost and random religious factors. Sometimes seeing the countryside is really cool in addition to the destination’s reason.
roserose56@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
unnamed1@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Looks like a freedom country chicken farm
fox2263@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
people who think they can go though a US airport nowadays is a form of white entitlement
flandish@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wife and i have to fly out of LGA in may to go to daughter’s wedding. not looking forward to the travel. sigh.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Just wait in the line like a grown up. You can do it!
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
did you mean Trump JFK Airport?
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
I wish he got an airport award!
I just created the “Me, I think he deserves an airport award” award and I’m honored to…
Anyway, squirrel!
timestatic@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Spezi@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I’d much rather have Camacho as the president. At least he knew that he should trust people smarter than him.
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Camacho was a great president. I submit the following:
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When faced with a problem he didn’t know how to solve, he appointed the best person he could find and listened to their advice.
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Upon realizing that he made a mistake, he reversed course and corrected.
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I don’t think he ever raped a minor.
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RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There are several terminals with security checkpoints, this does not represent “JFK Airport” as a whole. This shown terminal is T5, JetBlue’s terminal.
axexrx@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Have you visited the other terminals as well? Are they significantly better and this is an outlier, or is this typical peak hours for jfk right now?
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes. Though I obviously didn’t tour the airport looking for problems. Delta’s was long but not awful. AA’s was relatively short. Didn’t see the international terminal. No idea what constitutes “peak”, but NY is heading into NY school’s spring break season, so things will get busy for the airports.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Yeah guys send the Gestappo. They fix everything
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I avoid JFK at all cost, but I get the sense that the lines there always look like this. Not saying all the other stuff isn’t an issue, but don’t give JFK any credit. Hands down the worst airport I’ve been to.
Skanky@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I can see you’ve never been to Newark
moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mostly fly out of Newark. I’m not saying Newark is good, but nothing like what I saw at JFK. JFK was so bad, they had a staff member split the security line in half and escort us to another level of the airport. I have never seen Newark do anything like that.
__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I flew put of newark yesterday and we waited longer to check our bag than to get through security. Maybe 10 minutes at the most
kossa@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
JFK is shit, yeah. But LAX is worse. They don’t have any designated area for overlay. You have to go through immigration, only to go through security again to get your connecting flight. And immigration is rude, like, I don’t want to enter your shitty country, you make me do it, because you apparently don’t know how to build airports.
And security takes ages, so you wait in line, while you’re called out already to board the flight. Like I DON’T WANT TO BE IN THAT LINE! I did not want to go through immigration or security or anything. I just wanted to get my connecting flight.
Ghost@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I flew out of JFK terminal 1 recently (not sure how much the terminals matter/differ as it was my first time flying from JFK) about 2 weeks ago and didn’t spend more than maybe 20-30 minutes in the TSA line? It really wasn’t long at all.
mlg@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
All three NY area airports are notoriously bad in every aspect lol.
danafest@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
IDK after the upgrades LGA has been pretty great
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
JFC
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
No, it’s JFK
Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jesus Fucking Khrist
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I deliberately searched for this comment.
lobut@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
JFC it’s JFK! F dat, gonna go to KFC.
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My coworker noped out of a trip across country because they’d have a grandchild with them, and didn’t want any issues with missing flights, long waits, or ICE shenanigans.
asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Zero sympathy for USian planet incinerating jet-set crowd. They got what they voted for.
modus@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The racist, hillbilly morons who voted for this are not “jet-setters.” They’ve probably never even been on a jet.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
You underestimate the number of half-wit yuppies who are MAGA. The number of them in my home city is absurd and theyre the exact fucking reason the area is even urbanizing while they bitch about urbanizing factors is absurd, sorry Janice but the light industry is an expected economic factor for a city population. Sincerely a SoCal Hick.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
The flights are probably a mixed bag. There are also cases where they just open up the lines and let everyone through without passing through security screening. It’s happened a few times, though I’ve never gotten so lucky.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Could you imagine if you were on hour 10 of waiting through the line, just managed to get to the front and then they told everyone to just go through? I’d cuss someone out hard.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Flying is such a giant humiliation ritual, I have no idea why people even bother.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Because places are far away
halfapage@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
[deleted]ivanafterall@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But I can’t find a partner who also wants to bonk and bonking alone just isn’t as good.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I had to sleep in JFL Airport once. I don’t recommend it. The rats that come out at night are the size of a ~25 pound dog.
altphoto@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
That’s weighs like 25 air port hotdogs!
icelimit@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Irl pve
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Worst dungeon crawler ever
UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I feel like I’m missing something, what’s the context?
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
TSA (the security theater people) had been unfunded for the last 50 or so days
immutable@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Additional context:
TSA is part of DHS (Department of Homeland Security). ICE and border patrol are also a part of DHS.
After ICE started shooting citizens, the democrats said “no additional funding without some reforms.” In trumps Big Beautiful Bill ICE was already given a huge chunk of funding for the next few years, but they would like more.
Democrats have been trying to fund TSA but want a separate vote for ICE. This arrangement recently passed the senate but republicans in the house voted it down because they think they can pin the blame on the democrats and force them to give ICE more funding along with the TSA.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This is what happens when you’re state/city doesn’t upgrade your airport either. I just flew through SFO and DIA this past week and security was under 5 minutes because they dont rely on TSA staff for the majority of their functions.
Randelung@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Jesus Fucking Krist airport right now.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Where are people even going? I know we’re all kind of on that bandwagon where we just disassociate with the bad events happening everywhere right now as a defense mechanism but how does traveling make any sense right now? I just can’t
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hey MAGA, thanks for making London Heathrow a better airport.
miked@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It feels worse in real life. I was there on Sunday. Cannot recall ever being in longer lines.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oh yeah baby America is so back
coverupyourface@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
The greatest country on earth
mech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Boy am I glad they’re making sure a terrorist with a bomb can’t get onto a plane to kill a lot of people packed together in a crowded place.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Can’t blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!
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ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Blows up airport instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Let’s concentrate all the people in one place so that they can’t bring weapons onto a plane. Nothing could go wrong…
Just a half dozen bags dropped off in the course of 10 minutes.
Lemming6969@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Terror is so easy to accomplish via random crowds and isolated unprotected infrastructure that it makes one wonder if any of it was really terror.
huquad@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
These are poor people, so the powers that be don’t care