BTW these things also scan the genital area. If an unoperated trans woman passes through, it flags her for having a hidden weapon in her crotch. This has been a source of forced outings, public humiliation and in some cases outright sexual harassment by flight security staff ever since these machines where introduced at airports, i find the idea that somebody could be forced to endure that before every subway ride absolutely nightmarish.
Yeah I was gonna make the trashfuture joke about it being a t-slur detector but honestly its not even funny, this is horrible
btw a common way to confirm the victim’s claim that the alarm was set off by girldick and not by a firearm is to do a patdown in the crotch area, with the gender of the person doing the patdown depending on the airport’s levels of transphobia.
How would a metal detector sense the shape of your flesh? And how would it know your legal gender?
i don’t even have words for this one. this is completely deranged even by US standards. they’re going to make you go through the TSA experience every single day. it won’t do anything to stop crime or terrorism or anything that it says on its face. they’re going to do this, it’s going to stay, and the only people who are for it are people who don’t use the subway
god damn america
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or redbubble or one of those sites that just algorithmically generates custom merchandise that it can dropship
I love how the NYC subway is quite literally falling apart, by far the most decrepit unsafe looking metro system ive ever been on, and this is where they decide to spend money
The NYC subway is comically loud and bad and dirty, I cringe to think what visitors from places like Tokyo or Hong Kong think when they see it in person for the first time
Not to say there isn’t tons of work to be done but “dingy looking” and ancient =/= unsafe and falling apart. Shit’s still safer than driving a car, for example, and it’s certainly falling apart less than the T in boston
Very true just giving my worthless outsider’s perspective I guess. Almost anything anyone does is safer than driving a car, isn’t it ?
Now compare it to other countries not other US cities.
Lmao. Collapsing fucking empire with good PR.
There’s tons of work to be done to make it a modern system competitive with other nations in terms of technology, cleanliness, speed, etc., but it’s not to the level of unsafe and falling apart. I’m just a little defensive because this is exactly how people who want to gut transit describe it, and its over-sensationalized.
That sucks to hear as someone who’s never been on a subway other than in GTA4. Being able to go from one end of my city to the other without driving sounds nice.
China: high speed rail and efficiency
America: You have to be scanned and there will be a cop with a drug dog
At least true in SZ where I live, yes. And they have a special scanner for drinks. But the process is very quick, you go through the whole thing in a few seconds, and I’ve never had to be groped by the agents for having both 🍆 and 🍈. I don’t think the device is a metal detector, because you go through it before putting stuff in the x-ray. Idk what it is 😅 your guess is as good as mine
Never been through any security in any public transit or trains in the EU. Wondering what the materialist analysis of this is.
Uh… wtf
“This is our Sputnik moment,” Adams said at a news conference at Fulton Transit Center in Lower Manhattan. “Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon. … Let’s bring on the scanners.”
https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-to-test-scanners-with-ai-tech-to-crack-down-on-guns-in-nyc-subway
Let’s bring on the scanners
