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 Gm,

I wonder how many terrorists we've stopped by taking our laptops out of the bag and putting bottles in a plastic bag at the airport  
 Worlds a better place since traveling with flip flops 
 Yeah I love the smell of feet in a crammed airplane 🦶 
 It's been proven many times now that the "enhanced" security at airports since 9/11 does exactly nothing for security.

It's just a racket to give billions of dollars in contracts to the cronies of the State, and to expand the powers of the State. 
 Forcing obedience has no price 
 could have been millions 
 How did we get here? 
 Tens of thousands at the very least 
 Apparently now you aren’t allowed to take mascara on planes without them being in plastic bags… that’s a new one for me. Short story I lost all my mascara on my last flight cause I didn’t have time to go back through the scanner with the little bag of mascara. That’s my story lol 
 Was it in Europe? Tik tok (sorry) taught me that they’re much more strict there, so I made sure to put anything and everything in a plastic bag.

This is not a tik tok promotion post, but rather a comment in the hopes that we have more random conversations like this on nostr 
 It was indeed in Europe and @island warned me of this and I just didn’t do it so ultimately it was my fault but I never expected the mascara! Lol. Agreed on love the random convos. It’s why I’m here 
 Mascara is extremely dangerous, all the al quiedas carry it 
 that was so dumb 
 TerroristSafetyAdmin/terroristssecurelyadvanced       (o_O) 
 All of them.  
 Or by asking 55 questions about the trinket I brought back as a souvenir 
 And if you travel a lot, observe the scanning machine queues... In a lot of airports, there is one queue that doesn't make you pull everything out. ✈️

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