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  3. Have US airports always been a concentrated dose of American dystopia or has it just been O'Hare and everything post-9/11?

Have US airports always been a concentrated dose of American dystopia or has it just been O'Hare and everything post-9/11?

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  • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

    Apparently "Beats, Bites, & Flights" is the new "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"

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    @arclight
    🐼 🔫 🥬 🚪

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    • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

      Apparently "Beats, Bites, & Flights" is the new "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"

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      Encounter a wild techbro in the airport? Don't worry - contact one of Austin Bergstrom Airport's Techbro Control Specialists who will bait one of our specially constructed techbro live traps with Claude tokens, capture, and harmlessly release the techbro at one of our server farms upstate

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      • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

        Have US airports always been a concentrated dose of American dystopia or has it just been O'Hare and everything post-9/11? Somehow Security was not the most disturbing source of decay and horror. Or maybe it was and I'm just numb to it.

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        @arclight from everything I've heard, O'Hare was always dystopian, but yes, post-9/11 security theatre made every airport into an O'Hare zone.

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        • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

          Encounter a wild techbro in the airport? Don't worry - contact one of Austin Bergstrom Airport's Techbro Control Specialists who will bait one of our specially constructed techbro live traps with Claude tokens, capture, and harmlessly release the techbro at one of our server farms upstate

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          Away from your sterile metallic Skinner Box condo? Need coffee but can't bear the thought of "interacting" with other "people" who might have a "personality" and subject you to "conversation"? Obtain coffee from one of our emotionless robot baristas - just like Wire Mom used to make!

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          • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

            Away from your sterile metallic Skinner Box condo? Need coffee but can't bear the thought of "interacting" with other "people" who might have a "personality" and subject you to "conversation"? Obtain coffee from one of our emotionless robot baristas - just like Wire Mom used to make!

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            @arclight Yeesh

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            • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

              Have US airports always been a concentrated dose of American dystopia or has it just been O'Hare and everything post-9/11? Somehow Security was not the most disturbing source of decay and horror. Or maybe it was and I'm just numb to it.

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              @arclight O'Hare has always felt like a prison to me--that terminal design is absolutely oppressive--but pre-9/11 plane travel was mostly just a tedious affair. Like going to get on a bus that just happened to fly.

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              • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                Away from your sterile metallic Skinner Box condo? Need coffee but can't bear the thought of "interacting" with other "people" who might have a "personality" and subject you to "conversation"? Obtain coffee from one of our emotionless robot baristas - just like Wire Mom used to make!

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                Denver Airport, presented without comment.

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                • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                  Away from your sterile metallic Skinner Box condo? Need coffee but can't bear the thought of "interacting" with other "people" who might have a "personality" and subject you to "conversation"? Obtain coffee from one of our emotionless robot baristas - just like Wire Mom used to make!

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                  @arclight My favorite pointless airport luxury are those little robotic glasses washers. Like you pop them in a little thing on a stand and watch a machine spray and dry them. It legitimately feels nice to put some sparkly fresh glasses on my face and I will use those things every time I see them.

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                  • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                    Denver Airport, presented without comment.

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                    I feel like I've woken up in an Idiocracy LARP.

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                    • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                      I feel like I've woken up in an Idiocracy LARP.

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                      @arclight Brawndo. It's what plants need.

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                      • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                        Encounter a wild techbro in the airport? Don't worry - contact one of Austin Bergstrom Airport's Techbro Control Specialists who will bait one of our specially constructed techbro live traps with Claude tokens, capture, and harmlessly release the techbro at one of our server farms upstate

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                        @arclight Ha! I wonder how often people get locked in those boxes. That would be funny.

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                        • ai6yr@m.ai6yr.orgA ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                          @arclight Ha! I wonder how often people get locked in those boxes. That would be funny.

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                          @arclight I CAN'T WORK UNLESS I AM IN A TINY STERILE CUBICLE, LIKE MY OLD JOB

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                          • ai6yr@m.ai6yr.orgA ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                            @arclight Yeesh

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                            @ai6yr Techbros have (re)invented the coffee vending machine, now with extra DSM-IV!

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                            • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                              Denver Airport, presented without comment.

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                              @arclight The incel magazine isn't supposed to outright say that it's an incel magazine.

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                              • complexmath@hachyderm.ioC complexmath@hachyderm.io

                                @arclight My favorite pointless airport luxury are those little robotic glasses washers. Like you pop them in a little thing on a stand and watch a machine spray and dry them. It legitimately feels nice to put some sparkly fresh glasses on my face and I will use those things every time I see them.

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                                @complexmath It's like a shoeshine for your glasses - so fancy!

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                                • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                                  Denver Airport, presented without comment.

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                                  @arclight

                                  This is why men are idiots.

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                                  • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                                    Encounter a wild techbro in the airport? Don't worry - contact one of Austin Bergstrom Airport's Techbro Control Specialists who will bait one of our specially constructed techbro live traps with Claude tokens, capture, and harmlessly release the techbro at one of our server farms upstate

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                                    @arclight 🤣

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                                    • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                                      Denver Airport, presented without comment.

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                                      @arclight

                                      Putting his pecker right out there…

                                      (More #alt4you: photo shows an illuminated advert for men's underwear. The designs on the left and right leg come from the American flag. A bulge for the genitals is adorned with the head of a bird, probably (from context) an eagle, with a prominent beak. Hence my terrible pun.)

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                                      • dalias@hachyderm.ioD dalias@hachyderm.io

                                        @arclight The incel magazine isn't supposed to outright say that it's an incel magazine.

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                                        @dalias CA-CAWWWW!!!

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                                        • arclight@oldbytes.spaceA arclight@oldbytes.space

                                          I feel like I've woken up in an Idiocracy LARP.

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                                          @arclight

                                          I haven’t flown since 2019. When I miss travel, I have a little list of things I reflect on to keep from getting sad: that time on Southwest when I was in the middle seat between two 300 pound guys, the NYT story about the airline with a bedbug problem, and now this.

                                          In the past, I used to enjoy spending time in most airports, with the food and shopping and no pressure to do anything but catch my flight. But these sights you have here 😳.

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