News and notes from around the interweb:
- TSA bins are more crudded up than the monkey from Outbreak. There’s been self-cleaning technology for years but TSA is too complacent to adopt it. One screener breaks it down for you.
“These trays are dirty. You may not see it because I cleaned it, but there was [expletive] in a tray,” Kenney said.
“So you put your vapes in a tray? Just know someone has probably stepped in dog [expletive]. Someone stepped on the ground and put their shoes in a tray,” he added.
@patchouli_julio - Your text messages can be used by airline crash investigators
- Jealous of his hotel game, honestly. And dude is clearly just redeeming his GHA Discovery Dollars. Maybe he was one of the winners of $200,000 in stay credit for being one of the loyalty program’s most frequent guests.
For 14 days, Slovakia has had no official information about PM Robert Fico's whereabouts. However, @dennikN confirmed his location through OSINT research. The hotel even transferred their call without hesitation to Fico's suite—though he didn’t answer. 2/3https://t.co/s4ZPGpas3c
— Szabolcs Panyi (@panyiszabolcs) January 4, 2025
- Europe is different, but never rent from Sixt in the U.S…
my jaw just kept dropping LMFAOOO pic.twitter.com/QcdeyjqTkQ
— (@beyoncegarden) January 5, 2025
- Only company-approved pins are permitted under American’s uniform standards. This employee is subject to discipline under the airline’s rules. Will those be enforced..?
Imagine it’s a growing trend on flights to MIA. I flew today on @AmericanAir from San Juan to Miami and had to deal with the same issue.Thank you @SkyNewsAust and @nypost for creating awareness about this matter.
I wasn’t aware airline staff had the right to advocate this way! https://t.co/uCgW1iUtHT pic.twitter.com/76kT6woeFk— Josephdabbah (@JosephDabbah) January 6, 2025
On crash investigators getting access to victims’ phone data: What’s the old trope, “if you have nothing to hide, you nothing to fear”? Yeah, that logical fallacy often fails. Anyone who cares about freedom and privacy, should not be pleased; yet, does the public good outweigh the harm here? Maybe. We, in the US, or at least our lawmakers, decided after 9/11 that the Patriot Act was worth it, because ‘terrorism,’ but how much of our private data is really used for benevolent purposes. Hmm.
Only thing nastier than the bins are the humans working TSA. What kind of person willingly gropes innocent children and elderly all day for a living?
Happy jan 6th everyone, America’s Bastille day.
The only thing more filthy than TSA bins, is currency. Back in the day when cash was king, I worked at a bank and handled money all day. My fingers would be black by the end of my shift.
I like the way at most airports, if one has Precheck, one does not have to put anything in the dirty bins and can just put everything on the belt directly. It bothers me that at airports, such as ABQ, they made the change to make Precheck passengers put everything in bins.
How does a watermelon became a symbol of solidarity with Palestinians? In the day, that would have nasty racist implications.
I like watermelon but I cut the watermelon, eat the flesh of the watermelon, spit out the seeds on the ground and throw the rinds in the trash with the other garbage. If watermelon is kept too long, it becomes soft, spoiled and rotten.
@jack the lad. “Palestinians and their supporters would carry watermelon slices as a sign of protest. Tamara Taha, a Palestinian American activist in Washington, D.C., shared with NPR that beyond representing the flag’s colors, the watermelon has long symbolized Palestinian resistance to occupation.” NPR