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I refuse to fly domestically anymore just because the TSA is all security theater, I refuse to go through their backscatter x-ray, and I'm not interested in their enhanced groping. I will ride my motorcycle 1000 miles in a single day rather than take a plane anywhere.
Is your name Dean?
It is neither Dean nor Sam.
Besides, a motorcycle is far more fuel efficient; I typically get about 40-45mpg, v. 12mpg for a '67 Impala.
Road trip is more eco friendly anyways.
Same. Flying has become such a terrible experience that I refuse to take part in it anymore. With the overbooking resulting in people getting kicked off planes, price-gouging customers, constantly late flights, stranding people without compensation, people packed in so tight that no one is comfortable, lack of cleanliness, constitutional rights violations, stealing luggage and items in luggage, violations of people's bodies...I don't think it's an exaggeration to call it cruelty to the passengers.
Also the planes sometimes fall apart now
Same.
I will road trip or take a train instead of flying. I'd rather be on the road twelve hours than in a plane for one.
They phased out back scatter x-ray like a decade ago. They only use millimeter wave, which doesn't have ionizing radiation.
Regardless; the TSA was caught lying about the capabilities of the machines, and I'm just not willing to step foot through one. The ionizing radiation doesn't worry me, because I was never flying frequently enough for it to be an issue.
I will ALWAYS get the grope if I avoid the cancer box.
I have a deep-seated fear of the cancer box. I was okay with it - I get x-rays a bit for ongoing Achilles issues - until I learned that when Boston TSA asked the FAA what the risks are of standing nearby it for hours at a time, the response was
That's when I decided I'd like to avoid it.
What I've learned:
So there.
I used to work in a job that involved handling radioactive materials. We had dosimeter badges to track long term exposure to radiation. One pass through the full body scanner at a TSA checkpoint would make the dosimeter badge come back from the lab at greater than monthly allowable exposure. I'll take the grope.
"why are cancer rates increasing?"
It's very hard for me to care if cancer rates for TSA agents go through the roof; they willingly signed up for that shit, so fuck 'em.
Let's be fair.
They signed up to be the lowest of the overly-entitled rentacops out there. that's on them.
They didn't sign up to get irradiated by some shady shit that the FCC is all "no. Fuck off" about when asked about safety concerns.
So let's render unto Caesar on this one. The FCC (FAA? I may have that wrong) are huge dinks for knowingly subjecting their people to rads way in excess of what's cool -- worse if you look at the TSA people and realize they aren't pasty-whites and then it's mean to minorities.
And Logan intl are dinks, just like whatever union the TSA people are in, for not supporting and protecting the staff. That lawsuit is gonna be like Erin Brockovich II .
And this just reminds you that if they could get other jobs then they will. The people who can't dead-sea-effect out of there are gonna be absolutely unemployable elsewhere. And that fills me with a warm and fuzzy feeling about the mental capacity and happiness of TSA agents and their international emulants.
Exactly my point.
I'm pretty sure that the TSA falls under the Dept. of Homeland Security, as does Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
You see that makes it worse, right? You've got a lot of non-white people signing up for the job of a rent-a-cop so that they can abuse the same kind of authority that is leveled against the populations that the job attracts. It's like a black kid on the south side of Chicago looking at the ways that CPD abuses suspects and say, goddamn, how do I get into that gig?
Eh. Maybe some of them. Maybe. But policing attracts a specific kind of person that wants that job; sometimes it's people that are genuinely white knights, but they generally get run out pretty fast. More often it's people that want authority. Given that TSA pay ain't great, and that we're in an era--temporarily, if Trump wins--of historic high employment, I don't think that too many of the people in the TSA are really stuck there.