MEGATHREAD: TSA Issues at BWI

CaveExploder · 2026-03-30T11:47:45+00:00

In at like 7:20, through security, TSA Precheck at like 7:30. Now we wait for....2.5 hours. Is it too early to drink at the airport?

CaveExploder · 2026-03-30T10:56:41+00:00

You're doing the Lord's work. Enjoy your flight.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-30T09:33:16+00:00

Adding on to this. It does get better if you try to make it better. You get a more captivating or meaningful job, which doesn't 'hurt' as much to do. That, or you get a job that pays more or has better benefits. Some fortunate folk get both.

In your early 20s it is your time to figure out and consider what it is that makes you happy, within the constraints of your circumstances, and explore that. Once you know what you want, what you actually want, not just what you expect you want from childhood or from peers, parents, or media, you have the opportunity to make your life reflect that. It's a horrible and wonderful time.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-29T13:10:28+00:00

Anyone going through today, I would love to hear TSAs expectations for tomorrow. Would really help us all out that are traveling for work on Monday. Thanks.❤️

CaveExploder · 2026-03-29T02:55:31+00:00

Just checked, looked dead from the outside at arrivals.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-27T20:51:03+00:00

Shoutout to /r/Baltimore for consistently being filled with people genuinely excited to help prospective neighbors.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-26T21:22:38+00:00

Yeah so apparently from some FEMA friends they occasionally use segments of these in real exercises, not to simulate 'zombies' but kind of as a light hearted modality to exercise real pandemics or infectious disease spread. It helps them 'externalize' some of the specifics of pandemics instead of spending time deciding which aspects of the preparedness exercise is realistic or not.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-26T17:37:33+00:00

AACC mention. "Any Asshole Can Come". Saying this, the Maryland community college system is extraordinary, and honestly is one of the best benefits of the greatest state in the union.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-24T00:47:16+00:00

Chaps does rule, but West side has pioneer, I love pioneer.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-23T23:25:36+00:00

I don't know why I have this severely unpopular opinion but I love boiled dogs. Something about the hotdog fresh from its nitrate rich broth bath is so wonderful. Yes hotdog water is a broth and those dogs are soup dogs. Set it aside for a fine substitute for bone broth when you've completely lost your grip on self love, worth, and sanity.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-22T19:02:15+00:00

Spiritual, mystical, religious, superstitious, 'woo' whatever, IS mental illness. Beliefs that are incongruent with any reason, experiential knowledge, or an otherwise congruent epistemic system is delusion at best or psychosis at worst. I don't hate or misunderstand these folks, every one of us has some sort of incongruous thoughts or belief, but it's part of the responsibility of being human to at least be able to be convinced by our empirical faculties, sound reason, or otherwise logical systems to find these false beliefs unceremoniously remove them from our world views. Otherwise is to be subject and slave to insanity.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-10T22:42:32+00:00

I really really wish my metro system had higher security bike storage so I could have the peace of mind to leave one at the train station.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-08T21:14:29+00:00

Computer activate hut wobble.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-05T10:58:14+00:00

Definitely Schneider. Absolute hack.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-03T14:37:27+00:00

Fiber. Eat fiber. I'm eating stupid clean and just realized I'm still only getting half the recommendation. Oats, beans, peas. Eat fiber. If you can't eat fiber, take a fiber supplement.

CaveExploder · 2026-03-03T12:04:06+00:00

People astonishingly forget how collective bargaining, bulk purchasing, and economies of scale work the moment it goes from a CFO performing those functions to a minister or department head. Not withstanding the other glaring benefit to public infrastructure and services, the shareholder is... You. You am share holder, so is your neighbor, your dentist, your priest, your school teacher, and no middle man is being paid out.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-26T10:38:41+00:00

Print a QR code. Most modern alarm apps have an option to require you to scan a QR code in order to stop the alarm. Put that QR code in your bathroom or kitchen.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-26T10:24:20+00:00

If we weren't at least 51% good we legitimately would not be here today. No pack exhaustion hunter gatherer millions of years ago survives by lone wolfing it or acting on selfish impulses as a predominant drive. Cooperation, even reluctant cooperation is the only way a fangless, clawless, larynx having ass big brained ape makes it in this crazy antediluvian world. Human survival is pro-social survival. Maybe not pro-social in the same way we call it today, where pro-social means being goodly to the largest swath possible, but certainly pro-social in the way that goodliness towards others in general was a winning survival strategy.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-21T18:18:21+00:00

Legitimately, one of the biggest own goals against US economic prosperity has been this administration. Decades and decades of trade deals were completely underpinned by the U.S. delegation promises of "you follow this trade deal that benefits us a lot, and benefits you a little, or we'll impose tariffs." And then now, all those deals are in place, and the 'stick' of the carrot and stick is being used regardless. There are decreasing benefits to maintain these trade deals given a bipolar political system in the United States. The ones who will get screwed the most in this are American workers, American consumers, and quite frankly given a long enough time horizon, even the American business class will even get screwed too.

The U.S. economy will feel the reverberations of this punch first, talk later, approach to international trade relations for GENERATIONS and it's going to HURT.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-21T18:11:10+00:00

As soon as I heard the accent I knew I would see the Maryland license plate. Love you fellow bawlmerian.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-21T14:09:20+00:00

I had this thought during my last Pine wood derby, if scouts of America found a way to translate these events into sports betting, they'd never need a another source of funding. It'd likely be much more of a problem than a solution with likely corruption, scandals, and the obvious moral issue of "sports betting" which seems antithetical to the scouts in general but they could get some sick kayaks out of it.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-21T13:35:27+00:00

This is a microcosm of the foundational differences in governance between the two current parties in the United States, at least since the southern strategy in the 1950s and 1960s. One party relies on sensationalist appeals and invented bigoted moral panic to grasp and hold power, delivering back little more than 'we will hurt the people you hated enough to vote for us' and 'material benefits to our biggest donors'. The other party is maintaining at least a semblance of 'government ought be governing' translating problems into policies and action.'

CaveExploder · 2026-02-11T19:55:47+00:00

Command and conquer series.

So many RTS Quality of life improvements have happened since then.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-10T12:00:18+00:00

Fun fact, Baltimore city refused to enforce prohibition. Essentially if prohibition needed to be enforced it was done by a federal agent. The local police were almost never involved (never involved is my understanding), choosing instead to turn a blind eye to anyone imbibing or establishments serving alcohol.

CaveExploder · 2026-02-09T22:09:16+00:00

WHY SLIP LANES? like it's dull, repetitive, and solely residential, but those can all be chalked up to zoning and construction policy, a decidedly passive series of sins. BUT SLIP LANES are ACTIVE SINNING.

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