• take_five_seconds [he/him, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    8 months ago

    and you could smoke on the plane back then!!! but now if i hit my menthol-watermelon-mango freezie pop Juicy Vape on a flight they arrest me and put me on the “no-fly” list, whatever that is. 🙄 typical.

  • DragonBallZinn [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    14·
    8 months ago

    I just know that all the normies are going to blame “wokeness” for this.

    frothingfash: “KILL THE GAYS AND EVERYTHING WILL MAGICALLY BE BETTER!”

    Thanks internet for turning gen Z and gen alpha into a bunch of annoying little shits.

    • SkingradGuard [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      4·
      8 months ago

      I just know that all the normies are going to blame “wokeness” for this.

      They literally are, they say that muh “dEI” is the reason why it’s happening, and not greed

    • TheaJo [she/her,comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      8 months ago

      I’m not liking this site’s use of normie lately. We’re supposed to connect with the people, not scoff at them. (Of course, rabid anti-“woke” types aren’t anything close to the people and most individuals are above that line of thinking.)

  • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    8 months ago

    Not shown: hijackings. 78 in 1970 alone. Single digits per year since 2003.

    But fuck planes, anyway. Preventing hijackings doesn’t mean it has to be so unpleasant.

    • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
      22·
      8 months ago

      Hijackings back then were also not the same as what we think of as hijackings. Nowadays our idea of what happens is coloured by 9/11 whereas most of those highjackings before, while unpleasant, weren’t deadly for most of the people involved. When the majority of highjackings just lead to the plane being diverted to Cuba it isn’t such a big deal, but after the idea of using them as weapons got out people decided it was time to clamp down.

      Also fuck planes, high speed rail can and should replace overland routes

      • GrouchyGrouse [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        8 months ago

        But I saw a documentary about train hijacking called Under Siege 2. Luckily the day was saved when a whispery voiced man grabbed the hijackers by the wrist and they breakdanced into unconsciousness.