Whenever Americans talk about "fighting for freedoms" I remember that one time some dude who got thwarted by his own flopsweat tried to blow up his shoes and twenty years later anyone who goes through an American airport has to shuffle around in their socks hoping their pants don't fall down while they get millimeter-radared for a security pageant and the whole country just rolled over and decided that's totally reasonable.
@sidereal
Risk assessment is something that the public is absolutely horrible at.
The money and time spent on bullshit security stuff could save countless thousands of lives by just getting people to improve their diet slightly
@asbestos@mhoye@sidereal i would not feel comfortable with a society where everyone gets free gym membership, fitness/diet counseling, and obesity has been cut by 10%, but anyone can walk onto a plane with a giant bag filled with anything whenever they want no questions asked. that is, I believe in the concept of airport security if not specific methodologies
@asbestos@zzzeek@mhoye@sidereal I'm not saying it's foolproof or anything, but cannot accurately measure the amount of bombs or whatever have been stopped due to the fact that these endanced security measures, an silly as many of them are, have likely stopped peopl from even attempting certain things.
@zzzeek@mhoye@sidereal
They have stopped a lot of idiots who forgot their gun or knives and shit. Probably a lot of other stuff that would inadvertently be a hazard
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