• Furbag@pawb.social
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    1 day ago

    Crackpot tinfoil hat time: TSA telling you to be there so early when it almost never takes that long to get through security is a conspiracy by the airport stores to get you to eat, drink, and shop more than you otherwise would if you timed it better.

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      17 hours ago

      The most boring yet most common type of conspiracy: Nobody planned this situation, but now that it exists and somebody is making money from it, we are going to drag our feet “fixing” the “problem.”

    • TrackenDaKracken@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      I mean, maybe? Big corpo business certainly has the ear of our government agencies. I wouldn’t be surprised if the request was made, and granted for an extra, generally unnecessary hour added to the recommendation.