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I read that airports grate on people because there's an omnipresent chance of something occuring that's completely outside of their control, and that possibilit

by ethbr0 3y ago

I read that airports grate on people because there's an omnipresent chance of something occuring that's completely outside of their control, and that possibility is therefore always in their mind. Nature, for me, is the antithesis of that -- things move and happen in the physical rather than the potential. And that's relaxing!

bombolo 3y ago
Ah yes plane crashes are out of control. While earthquakes instead are completely under control!
- jimbokun 3y ago
  Changing gates, changing flight times, longer than expected security lines, flight cancellations. All fairly regular occurrences in an airport that travelers have no control over but must adapt to. Earthquakes are much more rare, so not worth constantly worrying about.
  - ethbr0 3y ago
    ... security policies changing (shoes on or off?), repeated "ATTENTION, BY IMMEDIATE ORDER OF THE TSA" announcements, people doing dumb things, people being rude, baggage getting lost, flights being overbooked... There's a lot. Most of the time it works out, but that was the point of the observation: most can still be pretty stressful.
    - ilovecurl 3y ago
      > baggage getting lost One way to make the airlines care more about your luggage and make it highly unlikely for them to lose it is to check a firearm as described in Deviant Ollam's famous talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw
stickfigure 3y ago
One of our patio chairs was recently crushed by a falling tree limb, shortly after someone vacated the seat. Not so different!
CRConrad 3y ago
>...an omnipresent chance of something occuring that's completely outside of their control, and that possibility is therefore always in their mind. Nature, for me, is the antithesis of that -- things move and happen in the physical rather than the potential. Whether that angry grizzly bear is going to attack you or not is just as much out of your control as anything that happens in an airport.

by ethbr0 3y ago

bombolo 3y ago

Ah yes plane crashes are out of control. While earthquakes instead are completely under control!

jimbokun 3y ago
Changing gates, changing flight times, longer than expected security lines, flight cancellations. All fairly regular occurrences in an airport that travelers have no control over but must adapt to. Earthquakes are much more rare, so not worth constantly worrying about.
- ethbr0 3y ago
  ... security policies changing (shoes on or off?), repeated "ATTENTION, BY IMMEDIATE ORDER OF THE TSA" announcements, people doing dumb things, people being rude, baggage getting lost, flights being overbooked... There's a lot. Most of the time it works out, but that was the point of the observation: most can still be pretty stressful.
  - ilovecurl 3y ago
    > baggage getting lost One way to make the airlines care more about your luggage and make it highly unlikely for them to lose it is to check a firearm as described in Deviant Ollam's famous talk on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfqtYfaILHw

stickfigure 3y ago

One of our patio chairs was recently crushed by a falling tree limb, shortly after someone vacated the seat. Not so different!

CRConrad 3y ago

>...an omnipresent chance of something occuring that's completely outside of their control, and that possibility is therefore always in their mind. Nature, for me, is the antithesis of that -- things move and happen in the physical rather than the potential. Whether that angry grizzly bear is going to attack you or not is just as much out of your control as anything that happens in an airport.