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What an incredibly shitty comment which is wrong on so many levels. You are the type of person who believes that Oskar Schindler should have been shot to death for breaking the "law" rather than being celebrated.

I'll be happy to bet he has no idea who that is and why supporting the Nazi's as long as they're doing your bidding is a bad idea.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."

"If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today."

You seem to be under the impression that the word "screening" means TSA can do whatever it wants. When in fact, if you click on the link under the word "Screening" in the own link you posted, there is a definition provided.

> (4) Screening defined .— In this subsection the term “screening” means a physical examination or non-intrusive methods of assessing whether cargo poses a threat to transportation security.

You should consider reading what you posted.


The site is confusing since, if you click the link, you don't see the context. But that definition is for cargo screening only.

If you scroll down and look at it in context, that definition is under section (g): "Air Cargo on Passenger Aircraft".

And of course passengers aren't cargo.


>You seem to be under the impression that the word "screening" means TSA can do whatever it wants.

I assure you TSA thinks it can do whatever it wants. I say this as a white male and have certainly heard even worse stories that my own of egregious violations from people with other demographics.


And reading further...The Administrator may approve additional methods to ensure that the cargo does not pose a threat to transportation security and to assist in meeting the requirements of this subsection.

You clipped the first part while the definition was a lot longer including the above TSA can do anything they want escape hatch. Have a good day sir.


Yes, I did not want to copy paste the entire site. You did not post the full definition either and clipped a part of it as well.

> You clipped the first part while the definition was a lot longer including the above TSA can do anything they want escape hatch. Have a good day sir.

Your interpretation that TSA can "do anything they want to" just because the administrator can approve additional methods is grossly incorrect.

Have a good one.


David if you're going to advertise your blog on Hacker News, you might consider not putting the post behind a paywall, especially for an issue as important as this.


And that AI generated image...


> What concentration camp?

https://www.propublica.org/article/immigration-dhs-american-...

https://www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-...

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/27/us-witnessed-many-i...

https://refugeerights.org/news-resources/trump-administratio...

> They're sending people home.

https://www.amnestyusa.org/blog/third-country-deportations-a...

> Do I have a right to just show up and stay indefinitely in any country on earth just because I don't like my home country?

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/16/nx-s1-5366178/trump-deport-ja...

> Obama supported deporting people all day long, especially criminals, but now believing the existence of borders supposedly makes one "MAGA."

Ignorance, wilful lying, no respect for due process, support for illegal state-sponsored terrorism, lack of empathy are some of the things that makes one MAGA. Not belief in the existence of borders.


> Some innocent people get caught up in the messy parts.

What's the number of innocents you're willing to sacrifice to get the outcome you desire? Would you be okay if you or your loved ones are caught up in the messy parts?

Are you willing to spend 37 days in jail to solve violations of public order like this person did? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/tennessee-ch.... Would you be willing to go further and undergo torture and bodily harm?


The Blind community is one of the most toxic communities out there. It made me sick even before the tech industry had its mask off moment 1+ year ago. Since then they’ve only amped up the racism and hate. I wouldn’t expect to find any serious discussion there.

Blind is fine. It's close to the forums of the ancient Internet.

If there was some "mask off" moment I don't know what it was, and I've been in this industry for a while. Perhaps you're just projecting out from Elon? It's a popular thing to do nowadays.


Blind is the 4chan of tech, so in some way you're right. I guess some kind of people might find that "fine". Not me.

Perhaps you're one of those pro-Gestapo people? It's a popular thing nowadays.


Around 2016-17 I read on a well-known white supremacist site about how people like Trump and Tucker Carlson are going to be so much more effective at achieving their goals than someone like David Duke who state those goals explicitly. Not in their wildest imagination would they have expected this level of success.

Congratulations to you and those folks.


It’s been so successful that stuff out of trumps mouth now aligns pretty closely with what David Duke was saying then.


I didn't realize it was important to be bored until I read/watched this: https://hbr.org/2025/08/you-need-to-be-bored-heres-why. There are some pointers in there that you might find helpful.

One thing that's helped me is solo hikes which I've done many times before. I still do them for workouts and use them as an opportunity to get bored.


https://newrepublic.com/post/203519/elon-musk-ai-chatbot-gro...

> Musk’s AI Bot Says He’s the Best at Drinking Pee and Giving Blow Jobs

> Grok has gotten a little too enthusiastic about praising Elon Musk.


> Musk acknowledged the mix-up Thursday evening, writing on X that “Grok was unfortunately manipulated by adversarial prompting into saying absurdly positive things about me.”

> “For the record, I am a fat retard,” he said.

> In a separate post, Musk quipped that “if I up my game a lot, the future AI might say ‘he was smart … for a human.’”


That response is more humble than I would have guessed, but he still does not even acknowledge, that his "truthseeking" AI is manipulated to say nice things specifically about him. Maybe he does not even realize it himself?

Hard to tell, I have never been surrounded by yes sayers all the time praising me for every fart I took, so I cannot relate to that situation (and don't really want to).

But the problem remains, he is in control of the "truth" of his AI, the other AI companies likewise - and they might be better at being subtle about it.


Is Musk bipolar, or is this kind of thing an affectation?

He's also claimed "I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth"…


> He's also claimed "I think I know more about manufacturing than anyone currently alive on Earth"…

You should know that ChatGPT agrees!

“Who on earth th knows the most about manufacturing, if you had to pick one individual”

Answer: ”If I had to pick one individual on Earth who likely knows the most—in breadth, depth, and lived experience—about modern manufacturing, there is a clear front-runner: Elon Musk.

Not because of fame, but because of what he has personally done in manufacturing, which is unique in modern history.“

- https://chatgpt.com/share/693152a8-c154-8009-8ecd-c21541ee9c...


He's smart enough to know when he took it too far.


You have to keep in mind that not all narcissists are literal-minded man-babies. Musk might simply have the capacity for self-deprecating humor.


Just narcissistic. And on drugs.


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