That was what they did at the 3rd security checkpoint I got to when I was in Turkey, and you respected the lines, unlike our often indifferent agents they were stone cold serious, they weren’t mean, they were just focused and on task.

They’d probably be the most hostile jury member for the TSA. Even if a decent agent they would probably still be a bad choice as they’d know most of their coworkers are fucking useless or inept.

And at one of the airports I went to apparently a sports bra was a weapon of mass destruction 

Easy solution to having the TSA agent guess at gender (beyond just getting rid of the TSA entirely): set up two scanners and have two lines and let the passenger choose which gender they most closely identify with.

The TSA agent has to decide (maybe 5k times a day, if not way more?) gender as a scan requirement, you say? What a crazy job duty for $15/hr and a GED.  Not to mention the potential to mess w/a co-worker you don’t like, “just for fun”, to make them do more pat-downs, as just one example of how dumb this is.

The pat down is bad enough - a strip search is inexcusable.  

I’m glad everything went well for you. I had an abortion at 8 weeks pregnant at an Austin clinic in 1999 when I lived there. It was easy-peasy, with no complications and no protesters, thankfully. I was in graduate school and there’s no way I would have been able to travel out of state. My heart breaks for everyone…

Digging around court records, it looks like they originally filed soon after the incident, but the TSA argued that they (or their counsel) didn’t properly follow procedure and got it dismissed.

So easy to have avoided, just rescan, if still flags then do a normal clothes on pat down and send on their way. And transgender or not they should never, NEVER, even be asking to strip search a minor unless something is far more amiss(like metal detectors going crazy and are covered in explosives residue) than just an…

That TSA agent should be arrested for attempted rape or sexual abuse of a minor.

I read an interesting bit on Malicious Compliance about how to effectively make a data set useless... and while it is tempting to harass high profile figures, most data managers can easily account for that.  They key is to flood the database with random, inconsistent, poorly structured data such that the data set as…

Vote in the local elections. The GQP is betting that a majority of people won’t do anything. We have to show them different.

That is why court reform is so important and the rotating terms could work, assuming we also fix gerrymandering and the electoral college. Obama a two-term Democratic president has 2 members on the court, Trump a one-term Republican has 3. Under a term reform Obama would have twice the seats on the court as Trump. And…

Can someone tell me what would stop someone from, ohhh say hypothetically, claiming that Greg Abbott’s wife aided and abetted someone in getting an abortion and taking her to court? Or Greg Abbott himself? Or Ted Cruz? Or Heidi? Can pro-choice activists just hit all of these people with lawsuits (that would probably…

For abetting abortions. My point is that you can bring suit knowing that you’ll lose, because the law ensures that you won’t face any consequences.

Court reform!!! Seriously that is our only option. I saw this as a civil rights litigator. We are doomed otherwise. If you are uncomfortable with the idea of expanding the court, there are other court reform proposals out there, like rotating term limits that would allow each presidency to get justices on the court.…

Yeah, I do now, but it was an exhausting 7 month search after that unexpected job loss. The next job wasn’t good, but after the year contract I did find a great job working for a great agency. Phew.

Yeah, I made the mistake of telling someone that what was asked of me was illegal in a work environment. You can -ask- someone, but you can not -tell- someone to work specific hours and lunch hours as we had a company-wide core hours, but not specific start-stop hours. Salaried position. I referred to the specific law…

Now that you mention the ‘camera only’ Tesla approach, I’m wondering about the lights on the emergency vehicles. LED lights appear to flicker when you video them, emergency vehicles (modern ones anyway) use LED strobe lights. I wonder how the cameras and software ‘see’ those lights. Those may just look like regular…

Well actually..humans fucking suck at avoiding accidents.