
#688: They Don’t Want You Flying
The flying experience has been dreadful since the passage of the right-stripping PATRIOT ACT, and the surveillance state has become embedded throughout airports in a variety of ways. The TSA is committed to making the flying experience memorable for all the wrong reasons, all while they manage to never catch an actual terrorist.
Once a traveler clears the gauntlet of privacy-shredding airport requirements, they still have to hope that the air traffic controllers do their jobs with Soviet-era hardware and copper phone lines, all while being dangerously overworked with no end in sight. How much…
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