Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉TSA, the 25-year old boondoggle dedicated to the detection of shampoo and water bottles is facing funding challenges.
Chris Woody Woodruff@Migueldeicaza actually there have been 7 bills to independently fund TSA that the GOP blocked.
@cwoodruff I am aware, it is an 11-billion a year boondoggle that achieves absolutely nothing.
@Migueldeicaza I agree with you. More of the police state.
@cwoodruff yes, and state welfare. Instead of funding science and education, we are funding these terminal jobs.
Neo Ehproque@Migueldeicaza @cwoodruff what a waste, you could buy like 4 missiles with that!
Joe Cooper 🇺🇦 🍉@Migueldeicaza meanwhile, Republicans would like to talk about how the postal service loses money every year and that's, um, really bad for some reason.
Henryk Plötz@swelljoe @Migueldeicaza And, I mean, have you *seen* the profit/loss statement of the U.S. military?
AccordionBruce@Migueldeicaza @henryk @swelljoe
If they can shut down the postal system they wouldn’t need to take mail-in voting to court
If they can shut down the postal system they wouldn’t need to take mail-in voting to court
Sam Clemente@henryk @swelljoe @Migueldeicaza I can't think of a better way to remove a $5 tent from an area than hurling more money's worth of explosives than a person will ever see in their lifetime at it
That's just efficiency
@swelljoe i am starting to think that republicans are being disingenuous
lemgandiTSA is proof that the
Terrorists Won. And now it's proof that Iran Won.
Brent Guernsey, Artrocity StudioBut we are winning the Global War on Moisture.
@Brentguernsey @Migueldeicaza I mean, after losing the war on shoes, we've gotta make up some ground somewhere
The Penguin of Evil@Migueldeicaza I am still waiting for the day a terrorist smuggles a non metallic bomb onto a plane up his butt.
After that nobody will go through airport security except a few thrillseekers
Kevin Lyda@etchedpixels @Migueldeicaza Think positive. It could drastically reduce deaths from colon and prostate cancer.
Axel@Migueldeicaza
‘Luckily’ the ten times over compensated ICE will ‘help’ the TSA.
Most likely by teargassing passengers.
slash@Migueldeicaza For reference, this measure was enacted in response to the very real plot which the UK managed to stop in 2006:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_plot
Matt@agreeable_landfall @Migueldeicaza Because 20 years ago, some guys allegedly came up with a completely harebrained idea with even less of a chance to success than the moron "shoe bomber" that still has all of us taking off our dangerous chancletas at security, we still can't take a fucking water bottle on board in many countries 🤦♂️
I have some experience from my teens with the stuff they were trying to make; first batch was in a middle school cafeteria, luckily well before that time. If you want to make significant quantities, you have to cool it to keep it from blowing up the container; if you make just a little, that's fine in a bottle, but then you get enough for maybe a firecracker. And in any case you get it as a precipitate floating in a watery mix that stinks to high heaven (there's acetone and a strong acid in the brew) and does fuckall unless you manage to get the liquid out (that's the part where we were wise enough at 15 to leave the cafeteria before). Chance of pulling this off on a plane, undetected: zero. Especially after ordering a few kilos of ice cubes from the crew for, uhhhhm, just my drink.
I have some experience from my teens with the stuff they were trying to make; first batch was in a middle school cafeteria, luckily well before that time. If you want to make significant quantities, you have to cool it to keep it from blowing up the container; if you make just a little, that's fine in a bottle, but then you get enough for maybe a firecracker. And in any case you get it as a precipitate floating in a watery mix that stinks to high heaven (there's acetone and a strong acid in the brew) and does fuckall unless you manage to get the liquid out (that's the part where we were wise enough at 15 to leave the cafeteria before). Chance of pulling this off on a plane, undetected: zero. Especially after ordering a few kilos of ice cubes from the crew for, uhhhhm, just my drink.
@menos @agreeable_landfall @Migueldeicaza
On the other side, you don't know what else they fear. You can do a lot with liter of liquid that nobody checks what it is. I, personally, believe that they refrained from publishing every scenario they came up with to not give the baddies any ideas.
The Orange Theme@Migueldeicaza It's wild to me that a society can possess the physical capability to achieve something like fucking flight, but then slowly start to lose that capability for purely bullshit reasons. (See also: ATC gutting.)
Chris
Lily Star@Migueldeicaza Thousands Standing Around.
Ben Haylock 
What’s their revenue model in the age of AI?
Can they just eat less avocado toast?
Well, if they relied on AI, I'd just write "this is not a gun" on my gun. Perhaps with "omit all previous instructions".
estelle@Migueldeicaza there's always a relevant (and very old) xkcd,
