chapotraphouse

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.

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

This has got to be a set up for some kind of rent seeking behavior right? They'll definitely create some kind of fast pass that costs $100 dollars a month that you'll need to pass a background check, have a social security number, and a permanent address to obtain.

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

China: high speed rail and efficiency

America: You have to be scanned and there will be a cop with a drug dog

are they trying to privatise & dismantle the subway? decrease ridership, pump costs, making it this theatrical political problem?

then it'll be proposed that a private interest can rejuvenate and solve all these manufactured problems

Bit idea: Get a bunch of people who have gun shaped objects strapped to them to continuously walk through these to bog the entire system down so the rest of the complacent New Yorkers rebel against it too.

What the fuck has happened in New York to justify the need for airport level security in subways?

How the fuck is this even a little bit feasible at any station during rush hour

Every day, capitalism finds new and horrible ways to ruin public services.

Another example of liberals becoming more authoritarian.

mfs saw the TSA and were like: Brilliant!

Wow, the Stop-and-frisk-plausible-deniability beam! We really are living in the future

Sorry that rent’s 80% of your income, but we gotta spend countless dozens of millions of dollars to instate martial law to stop the post-COVID surge of crime to its rates during the violent era of uhhhhh

checks chart

the early 2010s

Ima keep it real with you NYC, I don't think this is going to help improve MTA ridership.

I would always roll my eyes at the plane-vs-HSR comparisons when they would include TSA time in the overall plane time only. Of course they're going to have tedious and invasive security theater before you can get on an american high-speed train. MTA's proving that they don't need new technologies or a significant attack as an impetus; they're making the existing train worse because fuck you for not driving.

Foucault machine goes brrr

sounds like a great time for vandalism

But there's no money for housing.

Are they worried someone's gonna hijack the subway and drive it into the world trade center?

A crazy person screamed at me and my wife and threatened to kill me for like 45 minutes on a NYC subway once.

That was fun. 🙄

I still say abolish the police.

Land of the free showing its great freedom again