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Don’t fly: use a video conference, or just forego contact altogether. Travel by other means: drive, or take a train—-certainly viable in the Northeast. Use anot
by massysett 8y ago
Don’t fly: use a video conference, or just forego contact altogether. Travel by other means: drive, or take a train—-certainly viable in the Northeast. Use another airport: you said Newark, there are (at least) two other major airports in the New York area alone.
People usually have multiple choices available. Certainly they have alternatives to flying United Airlines out of Newark. That someone does not like these other choices does not mean they do not exist.
- tlrobinson 8y agoCool, I'll just video conference in to my next vacation in Hawaii.
- harryh 8y agoLuckily you live in SF where you can find a direct flight to Hawaii from half a dozen different airlines so this theoretical monopoly problem will never happen to you for this particular problem.
- massysett 8y agoOr, don’t vacation in Hawaii. You have choices whether you like them or not.
- DoreenMichele 8y agoAnd those choices include choosing to protest the crappy state of things and suggesting it needs to change rather than happily working around all the crappiness and accepting it as inevitable.
- djsumdog 8y agoI really hate flying in airplanes in America. I avoid them whenever possible. You cannot go through a line without being molested by the TSA. I really hate being touched, and really really hate it when people touch me below the belt and then try to touch me above the belt (serious OCD). When I do get the additional pat down (which is almost every time because those scanners are useless and have a false positive rate so high that they should just be replaced with a random number generator) I give the TSA person specific instructions to replace their gloves for each part of the pat down. They do ... now ... but haven't in the past (public outrage has made them a lot nicer ... but their jobs should still go away and we should just go back to metal detectors like in the 90s). Also America is the only country I've flow through which still makes you take off your shoes. Fuck that nonsense.
- s73v3r_ 8y agoWhy do you want them to change gloves? "Also America is the only country I've flow through which still makes you take off your shoes. Fuck that nonsense." Agreed. That is the dumbest thing ever, especially because the elderly and children can get out of it, and so can people who pay more. I wonder if I ran on a platform of "You can keep your shoes on when you fly!" how many votes I'd get.
- gesman 8y agoTSA precheck can help if you US resident.
- djsumdog 8y agoI shouldn't have to pay $80 just to fly without getting felt up.