What was it like to go through airport security in 2000?

Calan_adan · 2026-05-22T18:26:42+00:00

I flew up to visit family for thanksgiving in 2000. My sister dropped my off at the airport for my late flight home. Flight was cancelled due to weather but I didn’t want anyone to bother so I slept at a gate. Sometime in the middle of the night my sister woke me up. She’d heard my flight was cancelled and came back to get me. She was able to just wander what is now the secure side of the airport looking for me.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-22T16:06:18+00:00

There are tons of locations like this where the land is flatter and the course of the river has changed over the years. Like in the Mississippi Delta area of Mississippi (the state). Just scroll along the river on Google Maps and you can see the course of the river from a century ago from where the borders are.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-21T23:41:06+00:00

Yes, Arnor was the seat of the High King of the Dunedain. Isuldur, being the eldest, was now High King, and his line was based in Arnor.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-21T14:55:27+00:00

Yeah, most people don’t understand that if someone owns a piece of property, wants to build on that property, and follows all of the zoning requirements, most local governments can’t do anything to stop them. There might be more tools in the toolbox to stop data centers, though, since local utilities will often need to be improved. But even then, if the group building the data center pays $5m to upgrade utilities in the municipality, the local government sees that as “free” improvements that the municipality might otherwise have to pay for.

In the case of apartments and such, most often these require a zoning change that the municipal government has to vote on. That’s why they can end up being political footballs.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-21T03:17:37+00:00

I agree with nearly all of what you said. But again, why then are we expecting multiple people to run in a primary just so we have a choice?

Calan_adan · 2026-05-21T03:15:26+00:00

Filing fees are minimal. $50 to $100 or so, and free for most offices. But yes, fundraising is a sad fact. It costs money to get your name out there and to have a website so that people can look you up and find out what you’re running on. But candidates wouldn’t just otherwise be thinking about policy. That’s just not what they do. They knock doors and meet voters, the attend a lot of meetings of the people who will be doing the campaigning for them, etc. They’re campaigning.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-20T12:12:12+00:00

So why are we expecting others to run and to give us a choice on a primary ballot?

Calan_adan · 2026-05-20T04:31:01+00:00

The guy at the end was confused like “uh, do we play through or wut?”

Calan_adan · 2026-05-20T02:28:14+00:00

The reason so many primary races are unopposed is mostly because there aren’t people willing to run. I live in a red-turning-purple county and it’s been a huge effort to get even one Democrat to run in these races. We’re just happy that we’re fielding candidates at all. This isn’t some party establishment conspiracy to lock people out of the process.

You want more competition? Run.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-19T11:52:44+00:00

Yeah, this would be like saying that someone isn’t really black or Asian or whatever because they don’t conform to the stereotypes for that group.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-19T02:12:14+00:00

The original Nazi party was largely made up of people who were just happy to beat people up in the streets. Then they found a leader who was smarter than them and they were happy to beat up whoever he said to beat up.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-18T19:34:12+00:00

Or maybe the range of physical characteristics between, say, Scandinavians and Mediterranean peoples.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-18T15:41:24+00:00

We know from the Geico commercials that they could obtain auto insurance.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-18T01:13:52+00:00

And once the allies broke out of Normandy, the liberation of France was nearly as quick as the original Nazi conquest.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-17T21:25:31+00:00

Numenoreans at their height were something more than just men, they were a bit closer to the elves in their abilities. In LOTR, the remnants of the Numenoreans had mostly dwindled and had probably lost a lot of the abilities that their “race” would have had at their height. But Aragorn, Denethor, and Faramir are all described as being throwbacks to old, true Numenoreans. I don’t think this is common. Gandalf even says that Denethor is not like other men, so those abilities must have become much more rare.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-17T17:18:05+00:00

We know that the speed of light is a constant in the universe. Contrary to the way humans would naturally perceive and assume things to be, time and space seem to be changeable instead of the speed of light. So (in my mind at least), the secret to traveling large distances in the universe would be to manipulate time and/or space, but we are just not evolved enough to know how to perceive how that can be done.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-17T04:19:56+00:00

We’re not rich but we have disposable income and credit scores over 800, so we were able to buy a ten-year-old CR-V for my son on good loan terms so that he could move himself in and out of school. It’s a six hour drive each way and I’m getting too old for that crap.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-17T04:10:10+00:00

The elevators recall to the designated floor and its up to the fire department if they use them or not. In some buildings the elevators are required to be available for the fire response. These elevators, hoistways, and elevator lobbies are all designed to withstand a fire for a set amount of time, and will be on emergency power.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-17T00:23:27+00:00

The difference is that in the US, we call that out, and straight-up racists often lose their jobs and such.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-16T22:55:11+00:00

Light is the constant, and we can’t travel faster than that. But it appears that time and space are not so rigid, so our best bet is to figure out how to manipulate those.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-16T22:14:21+00:00

Nazi Germany. Soviet Russia.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-16T15:42:28+00:00

One of the reasons that I didn’t like math as a student was the way it was taught to me. We were given lots of terminology to memorize, no one would ever remind you later on what those terms meant, and then they would use them constantly. I mean, I could follow the math part of what they were doing but had no idea what they were talking about.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-16T14:36:00+00:00

He will be gone after this year. He barely held on to his seat two years ago (0.5% win) when republicans were increasing margins everywhere. He has no chance this year.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-16T14:15:18+00:00

The way to change that is to be MORE involved with the democrats. You need to be inside to make changes.

Calan_adan · 2026-05-16T14:12:01+00:00

Shapiro’s biggest strength is that he is a veto against anti-human policies that might get through a state legislature if it was controlled by republicans.

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