Tired of waiting winning yet?
Security lines at JFK airport, NYC
Submitted 2 months ago by slaacaa@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
nasquamesse@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Pleease Mr. President, no more winning!
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Mr. President, it’s too much winning!
stumu415@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 1 month 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 2 months ago
Is there any other country on earth that stops working altogether once a year?
d00ery@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
So they get to punish others for doing the things they choose not to do.
Again.
psoul@lemmy.world 2 months 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 1 month 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 2 months ago
Your get what you voted! Enjoy your fucking war.
unnamed1@feddit.org 2 months ago
Looks like a freedom country chicken farm
fox2263@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I’d honestly just cancel my holiday instead going through that trauma.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 months ago
people who think they can go though a US airport nowadays is a form of white entitlement
flandish@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Just wait in the line like a grown up. You can do it!
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
did you mean Trump JFK Airport?
altphoto@lemmy.today 2 months 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 2 months ago
Spezi@feddit.org 2 months 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 2 months 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 months 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago
Yeah guys send the Gestappo. They fix everything
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
I can see you’ve never been to Newark
moseschrute@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
All three NY area airports are notoriously bad in every aspect lol.
danafest@infosec.pub 2 months ago
IDK after the upgrades LGA has been pretty great
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
JFC
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
No, it’s JFK
Saber_is_dead@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Jesus Fucking Khrist
MigratingApe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I deliberately searched for this comment.
lobut@lemmy.world 2 months ago
JFC it’s JFK! F dat, gonna go to KFC.
thingAmaBob@lemmy.world 2 months 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 2 months ago
Zero sympathy for USian planet incinerating jet-set crowd. They got what they voted for.
modus@lemmy.world 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months ago
Are the flights backed up to, or are they just leaving half empty all the time?
NannerBanner@literature.cafe 1 month 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 1 month 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.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And not a mask to be found as a new variant of Covid surges…
chunes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Flying is such a giant humiliation ritual, I have no idea why people even bother.
DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Because places are far away
halfapage@lemmy.world 2 months ago
[deleted]ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 months ago
But I can’t find a partner who also wants to bonk and bonking alone just isn’t as good.
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 months 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 2 months ago
That’s weighs like 25 air port hotdogs!
icelimit@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Irl pve
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Worst dungeon crawler ever
UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like I’m missing something, what’s the context?
ajikeshi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TSA (the security theater people) had been unfunded for the last 50 or so days
immutable@lemmy.zip 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago
Jesus Fucking Krist airport right now.
darthsundhaft@piefed.social 2 months 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 2 months ago
Hey MAGA, thanks for making London Heathrow a better airport.
binarytobis@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had to go through the Atlanta airport shortly after the “4 hour wait” stories started hitting. I showed up 3 hours earlier than normal to be safe, and when I got there they had every station manned and ICE was basically just waiving everyone through. Took me about 2 minutes to get through security.
Kind of illustrates how pointless TSA is in the first place, but I’d rather have had that four hour wait than have to be within 50 ft of ICE.
miked@piefed.social 2 months ago
It feels worse in real life. I was there on Sunday. Cannot recall ever being in longer lines.
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Oh yeah baby America is so back
mech@feddit.org 2 months 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 2 months ago
Can’t blow up a plane if nobody can get onto the plane!
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ComfortableRaspberry@feddit.org 2 months ago
Blows up airport instead ¯_(ツ)_/¯
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months 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 2 months 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 1 month ago
These are poor people, so the powers that be don’t care