this post was submitted on 15 Dec 2024
1043 points (99.2% liked)

Microblog Memes

6652 readers
1188 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

  1. Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
  2. Be nice.
  3. No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
  4. Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Seriously, there's no standardization to the security theater hoops that the TSA forces you to jump through. Every airport is different, and the TSA guys always look so exasperated that you don't know the routine. I guess that's the point, that on any given day the rules might be different so that potential terrorists will have a harder time finding gaps in security, but it makes it a frustrating experience as a regular non-terrorist passenger.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago

I travel for work and it's absolutely not the TSA playing the long game to keep us on our toes, it's absolute lack of standards gear and incompetence.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago

Since its all make believe anyway and they have never stopped a single terrorist they may as well make it convenient for everyone else by making it standard.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

One of my flying tricks is to twist tie all of my cords into one big loop so that you know you have all of your cords at once and it makes them easy to pull out and put back in as needed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I work with energetic materials in a professional capacity. I have yet to loose ny items, but I am pretty diligent in keeping plane stuff separate from work stuff.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Energetic materials, you mean like red bull?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Lol. In case it's a legitimate question, Commonly it means material that has a lot of stored energy, reacts exothermic and is self sustaining. Explosives is a typical example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ahh it sounded like a fancy name for radioactive material to me. TIL!

load more comments
view more: next ›