kreskin
@kreskin@lemmy.world
- Comment on I'm leaving the US for good, anything I should do before I leave? 5 days ago:
So many graves to piss on, who has that kind of time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Of all the ways to quantify stupidity you could have chosen… and thats what you went with huh.
- Comment on Be honest and tell us what you see 1 week ago:
Ive been staring at it for a while to see if it could possibly be anything else. Got nothing.
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 3 weeks ago:
Any chance? Why, are you thinking we’ve tried everything? or anything at all?
I’ll assume good intent for a minute that your question is an honest one.
Lets start with people having rights in airports. Maybe you miss your plane if you assert those rights but tsa agents with a few days of training should not wield the absolute authority they wield. They are trained little better than rent a cops and their authority should be commensurate with that. They should be accountable for the experience they provide to the public. They should accept feedback, on a curve of course, and the bad TSA personnel should be fired. They need to be accountable for some level of professionalism when interacting with the public.
TSA should be trained in deescalation skills. Police should as well. This absolutist thuggery cops and tsa agents like to leverage should not be permitted in a civilized society, and there should be real avenues for the public to cite abuse. If we are honest with ourselves, there arent even handed ways to cite and act on abuse, and thats a reflection of abject effing failure of law enforcement and tsa’s leadership. Yes, there are bad travelers, but theres bad authority figures as well, and the thoroughly planned lack of oversight shows that pretty amply. Where is the accountability with these little tyrants?
From there lets talk about their budget. Its bloated. They have ai programs for detecting threats that are completely unproven. Their equipment deployments are expensive and poorly managed. They should be given barebones security guard level funding because thats exactly what they are. Lets not pretend these are crime fighting heros. They are overpaid mallcops.
Cargo containers are not thoroughly searched-- we trust senders to be honest about whats in them. TSA’s budget bloat can be redirected to beef up cargo security.
There are redundancies and inadequacies in the current process. Why not have some new process flows for bag scanning? Bag scanning is a chokepoint for people that should be distributed. The airport layout should optimize for this. Its not.
Why has TSA allowed Clear and other companies to sell a nicer version for the rich, that literally closes the walkway to allow their clients to saunter through the queue in a privelaged manner? That should never have been allowed. My time is not theirs to sell. That needs to be ended and the people who approved it fired.
Why am I not allowed to say anything that a TSA agent doesnt like? This is America, and free speech applies even in airports. They have taken this “terrorism” to an absurd degree and they need adult supervision. There should be no such thing as “contempt of TSA agent” that ejects you from your flight. I can consent to security, but I do not consent to mallcops being empowered to cancel my travel on their whim if they are having a bad day and feel bad about their life choices. I dont care if they dont like my tone or a joke of mine. Does it threaten anyone? No.
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 4 weeks ago:
Itd be easier for everyone if we instead brought all the people to a central place, some big building or walled camp where they could live and be searched constantly.
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 4 weeks ago:
TSA never did work properly. Testers were ablke to get weapons and explosives through tsa 95% of the time. TSA is purely security theater.
- Comment on William Shatner Confirms Talks for Star Trek Return at 93 Years Old 5 weeks ago:
If they want to bring him back for a few seconds and the instantly eliminate him in some painful way, I’d pay for that. But lets keep the Shatner acting to an absolute minimum, please.
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 weeks ago:
Designated Douchebag Dumbass Dingeberry Disappointing Dipshit
- Comment on nuked from orbit 5 weeks ago:
I named one of our work projects ‘project seppeku’ once. Boss was not amused when someone told him what it meant, but it went undiscovered for longer than I would have imagined, which simultaneosly made me happy and hurt my feelings.
- Comment on So, is the USA screwed? 1 month ago:
imprisoning dissidents will be a big step. That will mean its time to stop posting on reddit and lemmy.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
So If I am as vehemntly against murderers as they are about murdering, I’m as bad as the murderer?
You’ve nicely summed up centrism.
- Comment on Yeah, let's stop with this "don't judge people for their poiltics" bullshit 1 month ago:
Your calling genocide a “single issue” as if it were equally as important as school vouchers is an unserious approach to politics.
- Comment on The key is to match the 4/10 pain with a 8/10 high 1 month ago:
I had a particularly bad ingrown toenail removed once and my whole body suddenly relaxed. It felt like even my scalp was relaxing. I think chronic pain must be very stressful for your entire body.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 1 month ago:
Well they decided that Bidens entire problem was that he didnt message his good deeds enough. Like …the uh… infrastructrure bills. “more than a trillion dollars in spending on roads, bridges, airports, railroads, ports and more.”
The Dems thought that would be enough.
- Comment on ‘We Have No Coherent Message’: Democrats Struggle to Oppose Trump 1 month ago:
They are all in to support a law going after illegal streaming services: …slashdot.org/…/democrat-teams-up-with-movie-indu…
If blocking websites to help industry make more money doesnt help the people, I dont know what will.
- Comment on Europeans watching US/CA relations implode 1 month ago:
It furthers Putins goals.
- Comment on Anon watches The Terminator 1 month ago:
Except for state laws-- usually california, no limits on ammo purchases. Purchase 5 million rounds if thats what you need for um, deer hunting. Nothing over 50 cal, but 50 cal is fine. Mount it on your pickup truck I guess. 50 cal ammo is 3 bucks per round for the cheap stuff so that adds up. Not a gun for the poors to own. You can own a tank if you want to also, but theres a lot of laws around making it street legal, depending on the tank’s weight.
Operating a tank is a paperwork nightmare, which is another reason why Americans are so cynical about their government.
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- Comment on Should have seen it coming 2 months ago:
thats capitalisms dark secret. Its only innovative when it has to be.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 2 months ago:
I have to forfeit. just went to 3 stores, no eggs to be had till wednesday I heard. I guess you win, and you get all my leftover eggs.
- Comment on Putting the die in diet 2 months ago:
When is it “neccessary” to poach an egg instead of hard boil? I guess the 70s was a strange time. It was half a century ago and no one had computers or cell phones back then. I think people sat around and played monopoly.
One bottle a day per person. Boooo. Maybe get the double sized bottle then. The cheap ones they sell at the drugstore. And drinking water and coffee in the same meal, nice. Maybe mix them together.
OK damnit, I’m in with you OP. First one to -5 pounds (or death) wins. Shall we bet?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
So my wanting to punch nazis and genociders in the face makes me a nazi? Thats a cute theory. Id say people defending nazis and genociders – like you are doing here, are more likely to be nazis.
- Comment on guys... :( 2 months ago:
Those beans were promised that desk in the beans holy book.
- Comment on Is there any way our of the US political spiral? 2 months ago:
Is it though? we all claim to hate nazis (largely because of their genocide), but talk about halting a different genocide and suddenly the dems have all wandered off or are staring intently at their shoes.
- Comment on guys... :( 2 months ago:
telling anyone would be a red line.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Agreed. Same with genociders.
- Comment on There was a time when everyone had common sense 2 months ago:
Ive been voting giant meteor for a while now and it has not showed up.
- Comment on american culture 2 months ago:
If you are going to delve into that, you could also try the book “Circe” by Madelleine Miller. Loved it.
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 3 months ago:
A good glue job takes skill, its true. Well …ok. Sainthood.
- Comment on "Images of 'Saint Luigi Mangione, The patron saint of health care justice' have been making rounds on social media" 3 months ago:
He’s more sainty than most christian saints. St Benedicts “miracle”:
Book 2 of the Dialogues of Pope Gregory is about St. Benedict, and chapter 1 is titled “How he made a broken sieve whole and sound”:
It fell so out that his nurse borrowed of the neighbors a sieve to make clean wheat, which being left negligently on the table, by chance it was broken in two pieces, Whereupon she fell pitifully weeping, because she had borrowed it. The devout and religious youth Benedict, seeing his nurse so lamenting, moved with compassion, took away with him both the pieces of the sieve, and with tears fell to his prayers; and after he had done, rising up he found it so whole, that the place could not be seen where before it was broken.
blog.plover.com/religion/st-benedict.html#:~:text….
So Benedict fixed a collander and earned sainthood for it. Clearly none of us is worthy to behold such holiness as that. You couldnt make this flaming garbage up if you tried.
- Comment on GET REKT 3 months ago:
I hadnt heard “murder gays”. Not sure that one is very dangerous sounding. Statistically speaking, dangerous gay people must exist, I just have never met one personally. Odd.