5 ms·
Or just get pre check and 90+% of the time you’ll be quickly shuffled through a metal detector. Then opt out the rest.
by dawnerd 6y ago
Or just get pre check and 90+% of the time you’ll be quickly shuffled through a metal detector. Then opt out the rest.
- clairity 6y agoyes, opt-out other than for a metal detector. but no, shun pre-check, another form of surveillance-conditioning.
- flatiron 6y agoCan you expand on that? I got precheck and was pretty happy with the process. They genuinely seemed to be making sure i wasn’t up to something strange before granting me the status.
- dkdk8283 6y agoYou give up biometrics and background information. The interview is designed to be intimidating.
- User23 6y agoThat wasn't my experience. I sat in a waiting area for about 5 minutes, then I sat down at a desk with an "interviewer" who pulled up a screen with the information I'd already entered when I applied. She asked me if it was true, I said yes, and then she said there'd be a background check and I'd get the result in a bit. It was less intrusive than a credit application.
- deleted 6y ago[deleted]
- clairity 6y agoexactly. it conditioned you to accept that submitting to and answering a bunch of invasive questions is totally acceptable, even happiness-inducing, in exchange for "safety", where safety is actually systemically guaranteed simply because very, very few are malevolent enough to attempt mass murder, or even just one murder. it plays on mental biases that more easily extrapolate imminent and colossal danger from rare incidents than vice versa. sure, the invasiveness seems minor on an individual scale, but it's massive on a population one. power is more easily amassed in little morsels across grand scales than taken by force in large chunks.
- vkou 6y agoPre-check isn't surveillance conditioning, it's just a cynical cash grab, where you pay to solve a problem that the person you are paying is forcing onto you.
- clairity 6y agothat's true too, but it's not either-or, it's both.
- dawnerd 6y agoIt's included with Global Entry which is a HUGE time saver. Don't hate on it just because you have to pay. I have my disagreements with TSA like everyone but my time is valuable and if it costs 110ish bucks for four years that's more than worth it to me.
- cosmotic 6y agoDuring my first trip through $100 precheck (via global entry) I was directed through millimeter wave machine. I opted out. Precheck was not prepared for opt out. In the end, it took longer to get through pre-check than the normal+optout.