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Do global entry. You can do your interview when you return from overseas through customs in a lot of major airports.
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Yeah you should get GE if you are considering precheck. And lol at the dude up there thinking insane security lines are a uniquely American phenomenon. Other countries just don’t let you pay to skip em.
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May 23, 2023 16:48
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:Yeah you should get GE if you are considering precheck. Most airports I've flown out of Europe are setup like the US, but one of them, I forget where (maybe , had the security lines at each gate separately. This was great because it meant you could show up shortly before the time posted on the flight and get on, you didn't have to account for a random length security line because once you were in the security line you were getting on the flight. When trying to look up which airport it was and I found other countries sell the equivalent of precheck/clear. The Netherlands has Privium.
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May 23, 2023 16:58
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I though they killed that off because no one was using it.
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May 23, 2023 17:02
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This is probably worse than EVE. On the Manifold prediction market you don't bet with real money, just play money. I don't see the point of this, because if people aren't using real money they're not as likely to make honest predictions, but anyway, people do it. And there's a lot of silly markets people create, so it's betting on fake poo poo with fake money which seems doubly useless. You can use your real money to buy fake money, but there's no reason to do so because you can't turn the fake money back into real money. And I don't mean it's like a cryptocoin that's theoretically convertible but will get stolen from the exchange who holds it before you can find someone to give you cash for it, I mean it's strictly a play money. Like you can buy more copies of the Monopoly board game to get Monopoly money but nobody's ever going to pay you for your Monopoly money and it's worthless in any other context than Monopoly. Anyway, this guy created a betting market he called "Whales vs. Minnows." The question to be answered was "At some particular point of time, will traders hold at least 10,000 times as many YES shares as there are traders holding NO shares?" https://manifold.markets/IsaacKing/will-the-whales-win-this-market So all kinds of ways to cheat. If you want the NO position to win, you can try to recruit a lot of new participants to just buy a single NO share and wait to win. But if you're of the YES position you just buy a lot of YES shares with your fake money. The people with NO positions did just that, even to the extent of paying people in real money to join in. And then people holding YES, specifically the guy who started the market in the first place, started using real money to but more fake money to buy more YES shares so he could win this dumb bet that he started with his fake money. He spent 29,000 real dollars doing this. And he didn't even win his dumb bet.
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May 23, 2023 17:13
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:.....the government selling a shortcut to a process they have mismanaged rubs me the wrong way. Big time (I did buckle and get global entry though). Last time I did the interview, the guy next to me got questioned about his assault conviction. I figured a loving angry felon was exactly who should not be getting a fast pass through security. But nah, they just got the quick "I see you have xxx" and were rubber stamped through, just like everyone else. Because it really is all about collecting the money. Baddog fucked around with this message at 17:41 on May 23, 2023 |
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May 23, 2023 17:22
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On one hand I do think the European airport security is a much better experience than the US security, in the other hand I accidently brought a 3" knife on a flight from Belgium because i forgot it was on my carryon. In summary it takes all kinds.
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May 23, 2023 17:32
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You can make a decent argument that edged weapons aren't really high threat. Cockpit doors are locked and crew and passengers alike will now line up to beat the poo poo out of anyone who starts getting stabby so the 2001 stunt would only ever work once.
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May 23, 2023 17:36
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ranbo das posted:On one hand I do think the European airport security is a much better experience than the US security, in the other hand I accidently brought a 3" knife on a flight from Belgium because i forgot it was on my carryon. Spoiler: a 3 inch knife isn’t a threat to an airplane at all in a post-locking-cabin-doors world. I mean I get the air crew not wanting to deal with the possibility of a drunk passenger pulling a shiv on them, but no one is going to do another 9/11 with a machete, much less a pocket knife.
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May 23, 2023 17:37
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Midjack posted:You can make a decent argument that edged weapons aren't really high threat. Cockpit doors are locked and crew and passengers alike will now line up to beat the poo poo out of anyone who starts getting stabby so the 2001 stunt would only ever work once. yeah but you can't really make a decent argument that someone who misses a three-inch knife on the scanner is catching the more subtle but more dangerous stuff
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May 23, 2023 17:38
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poo poo even in some bizarro crazy edge case where literally every passenger was ISIS and they all had knives I don’t think they could get through the cabin door. It would just be two very freaked out pilots looking for a nearby airfield to land at ASAP.
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May 23, 2023 17:39
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Cyrano4747 posted:Spoiler: a 3 inch knife isn’t a threat to an airplane at all in a post-locking-cabin-doors world. They still hand out steak knives in first class. We still have to take our shoes off because one FAS-haver tried and failed to light his shoes on fire over 20 years ago. Cyrano4747 posted:It would just be two very freaked out pilots looking for a nearby airfield to land at ASAP. Also flying as many aerobatics as a commercial airliner can handle.
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May 23, 2023 17:41
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:In which OP thinks his $415 per month car payment is too expensive and searches out a cheaper solution. I like him tagging /calebhammer
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May 23, 2023 17:50
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ranbo das posted:On one hand I do think the European airport security is a much better experience than the US security, in the other hand I accidently brought a 3" knife on a flight from Belgium because i forgot it was on my carryon. I was sitting at the gate in a US airport, and a woman across from me pulls out her sewing kit. As she's rummaging around in there she realizes she forgot a 3-4" folding knife, she turns to her friend and they both laugh about the oopsie. So it's not like the extra hassle is getting us anything anyway.
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Midjack posted:You can make a decent argument that edged weapons aren't really high threat. Cockpit doors are locked and crew and passengers alike will now line up to beat the poo poo out of anyone who starts getting stabby so the 2001 stunt would only ever work once. I'm reminded of that photo of the shoe bomber guy that were taken when the FBI picked him up from the airport, and it was clear that he'd experienced a significant rear end-whoopin'. Also, while looking for that photo, I was kinda shocked to be reminded that the shoe-bombing thing happened in freaking December of 2001. For some reason I thought it was a year or so after 9/11. I wonder if the shoe ban would have happened if the attempted bombing had been later.
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May 23, 2023 17:51
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Brain Curry posted:I like him tagging /calebhammer Caleb Hammer salivating at the idea of people volunteering to go on his show for free instead of having to pay them (and having to pay for advertising to try and get people to come on his show)... LanceHunter posted:Oh hey, found a "casting call" ad out in the wild on FB for occasional thread topic Caleb Hammer...
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May 23, 2023 17:58
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SpartanIvy posted:In actuality, people with lots of disposable income tend to not be murderers because it's easier to not be miserable when you're rich. This is incorrect. Rich people are often quite miserable.
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May 23, 2023 18:05
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Machai posted:This is incorrect. Rich people are often quite miserable. Everyone is quite miserable. Rich people get miserable about not being as rich as their neighbors. Poor people are miserable about not being able to afford rent and food. It's easier to not be miserable when you're rich.
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May 23, 2023 18:12
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been said before, but there's a wealth to happiness ratio and it kinda starts levelling out around the point where your basic needs are met, you have a little safety nest egg and you generally don't need to check your bank account to go for a few beers and some food. after that it flattens out and really your average millionaire isn't considerably happier than a couple of DINKy middle managers at tech-co
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May 23, 2023 18:34
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SpartanIvy posted:Everyone is quite miserable. Rich people get miserable about not being as rich as their neighbors. Poor people are miserable about not being able to afford rent and food. On the one hand, the hedonic treadmill is very real, and there is no material situation one might find themselves in that will result in permanent satisfaction. But the ability to not be miserable is separate skill and it is entirely achievable for many people.
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May 23, 2023 18:37
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AceClown posted:your average millionaire isn't considerably happier than a couple of DINKy middle managers at tech-co if those dinks aren’t millionaires they are loving up bigly but yes your point is still correct money isn’t everything, but not having it is
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May 23, 2023 19:04
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Mo money mo problems. Biggie answered this year's ago
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May 23, 2023 19:06
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Phanatic posted:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQRb7VT3q2g
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SpartanIvy posted:So you're agreeing with me then? People with money may be sociopaths but they tend not to express it as murder. buffalo all day posted:I love having my priors confirmed as much as the next guy but feels like a [citation needed] situation here
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May 23, 2023 19:26
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AmiYumi posted:Not getting caught/having the money and connections to make the problem go away or get off on a technicality are confounding factors here, which make this a problem we literally don’t have stats on. Maybe they are satisfied hurting people in other ways afforded to them by their status, maybe that’s not enough and they take the Epstein plane to a private island and kill trafficked child slaves and all the evidence is cleaned up. Okay, you had some points there originally but then you kinda veered off into (((lizard people))) territory at the end. We know what happened on Epstein's island and while it was extremely gross, wildly immoral, and completely criminal, it wasn't something out of the movie Hostel.
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May 23, 2023 19:36
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Chainclaw posted:Costco used to sell annual passes to jets Paying 20,000 a year to not own a jet is fantastically GWM compared to buying one.
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May 23, 2023 19:39
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LanceHunter posted:(((lizard people)))
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May 23, 2023 21:23
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Baddog posted:Big time (I did buckle and get global entry though). I was waiting for a traveling companion to finish his interview, and this dude walks up to the office and is being really lovely to the officer escorting him, and he's saying "I don't know why it didn't go through, it worked fine last time!" The officer asked him if he'd had any legal problems since the last time, and he said "just a DUI!" Dude deserved to get decked.
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May 23, 2023 22:56
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AreWeDrunkYet posted:I was sitting at the gate in a US airport, and a woman across from me pulls out her sewing kit. As she's rummaging around in there she realizes she forgot a 3-4" folding knife, she turns to her friend and they both laugh about the oopsie. The TSA confiscated 6,542 guns at airport security checkpoints in 2022. They miss stuff but they don't do nothing.
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May 23, 2023 23:47
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I'm baffled that attempting to take a gun through airport security is not a megafelony
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May 23, 2023 23:53
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Cerekk posted:The TSA confiscated 6,542 guns at airport security checkpoints in 2022. They miss stuff but they don't do nothing. Nah, they do nothing. Literally zero of the people carrying 6542 guns were going to use them to hijack the plane. cum jabbar posted:I'm baffled that attempting to take a gun through airport security is not a megafelony There's a potential 10 year penalty for it but to secure a felony conviction generally establishing intent, and mens rea is a really important legal principle.
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May 24, 2023 00:11
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Wait wait wait. The US doesn't let you take your guns on the plane?! What kind of despotic commie tyranny is that? What happens if there's a bad guy on the plane?
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Chainclaw posted:The only problem is getting an appointment for Nexus, it's a ~2 hour drive to the appointment location and they're nearly impossible to book, they fill up the day they become available months in advance. There's an iOS app, Global Interview, that pings the TSA servers and pushes an alert to you if times open up at your preferred interview site, which they do with some regularity as people cancel or reschedule. (I'm not sure if it's your phone doing the scanning or their server but either way I assume it's not a lot of data usage.) I think it's $5 but arguably GWM/GWL to avoid f5'ing the TSA's website in vain hopes of finding a time on your own. I'm sure there's similar for Android as well.
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May 24, 2023 00:38
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Weatherman posted:Wait wait wait. The US doesn't let you take your guns on the plane?! What kind of despotic commie tyranny is that? What happens if there's a bad guy on the plane? You can take guns on a plane in America, they just have to be checked not carryon.
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AceClown posted:been said before, but there's a wealth to happiness ratio and it kinda starts levelling out around the point where your basic needs are met, you have a little safety nest egg and you generally don't need to check your bank account to go for a few beers and some food. Oh oh one of my favorite themes: the disproven 2010 study that said that happiness doesn’t increase after a certain income level! There was a study that measures peoples “happiness” that found that yes, after like $70k (in 2010 dollars), how much “happiness” felt day to day leveled off. However, when asked how satisfied people were with their life, that never leveled off, it just kept increasing with $$$$. More money equaled more life satisfaction. This idea that more moneyed people aren’t happier is nice to dream about when you don’t make a lot, but the truth is more money makes life better in SO many ways. So many problems can, in fact, be solved by throwing money at them! Also happiness is a temporary, fleeting feeling that comes and goes and is not a sufficient benchmark for your life. People will always feel times of stress, sorrow, anxiety, anger, etc and that doesn’t negate the overall picture of whether someone is content in their life. “Happy” is a dumb metric. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexledsom/2021/02/07/new-study-shows-that-more-money-buys-more-happiness/amp/ quote:2010 study: money doesn’t buy happiness after $75,000
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I’ve flown through a lot of airports and the only place worse than the USA is Moscow
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May 24, 2023 11:24
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I get the feeling that “season tickets to the Jets” is just another signifier these people like to display to show how they’re both rich enough to afford season tickets for a pro sports team but also quirky enough that they feel it further illustrates just how interesting they are. You can almost imagine them writing their memoirs, wistful smiles on their faces, working in how devoted they were to their “beloved Jets”, a real underdog of a team… just like them, if you think about it
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May 24, 2023 12:09
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it is possible for people to actually like a thing. even if that thing is the jets.
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May 24, 2023 12:13
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Yes I know. My grandmother who lived in Orange County NY was a diehard fan. But that wasn’t the point I was making. The fact that the tickets were listed as an accessory to their vision of their perfect lifestyle along side the multimillion dollar brownstone, extended exotic vacations, and private school for their kids struck me as very deliberate in a specific way
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When you ask someone about their dreams for the future and set it up as "what would a nice life look like" I feel you're gonna get random nice to haves thrown in. eg Tarek's dream of a habitrail system of tubes for a cat.
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