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So all a terrorist organization needs to do is have some of its members who have yet to commit any crimes sign up for this program. There is no way the screening is 100% perfect - there will be some false negatives, and they can be exploited.

This type of program is par for the course for the TSA: introducing yet another layer of theatrics for no meaningful security benefit. The US civil air system is still no safer than it was in 2001, and that's a crying shame.

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Why go through all the trouble and risk a connection to the organization showing up on a background check when they could just go after the hundreds of far less secure systems around the world, causing far more damage (economic or people) and terror? Oh wait they're incompetent.

I was only a kid in the 90s but I still remember the stark differences of flying back then compared to now. These days the only joy I get from flying is asking specifically for a can of soda and receiving a can instead of a cup that only holds about a third of a can.

I always get tonic water. Nobody else gets tonic water, so once the steward offered me the entire can. Now I get tonic water and ask for the entire can. They always give it to me.

Here I thought it was because I was so clever for drinking tonic water, and they're giving out entire cans of Coke.

On my flight last week, I asked for two cans of Coke, and I got them. It was part of my rejection therapy, and I failed.

Why would they do that? Precheck flyers have to go through a metal detector, which is actually harder to smuggle stuff through.

You're right, it's not like there's ceramic alternatives to most metal weapons or anything. Hell, I have a ceramic knife in my kitchen.

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