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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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.
@arclight At the office I used to work at in Florida they had stickers on the doors telling staff that this was a gun and knife free zone - and they had annual active shooter drills.
This is an engineering firm with offices and test labs and serious work being done.
So, yeah - it has been dystopic for some time ...
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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.
@arclight every US airport I've been to since 9/11 has been like this, and you probably are numb to it. Somehow O'Hare always felt worse than most other airports, but I think it's just a combination of scale and the architecture amplifies the mood.
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Apparently "Beats, Bites, & Flights" is the new "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"
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Apparently "Beats, Bites, & Flights" is the new "Eats, Shoots, and Leaves"
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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.
@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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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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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!
@arclight Yeesh
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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.
@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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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!
Denver Airport, presented without comment.
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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!
@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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Denver Airport, presented without comment.
I feel like I've woken up in an Idiocracy LARP.
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I feel like I've woken up in an Idiocracy LARP.
@arclight Brawndo. It's what plants need.
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@arclight Ha! I wonder how often people get locked in those boxes. That would be funny.
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@arclight Ha! I wonder how often people get locked in those boxes. That would be funny.
@arclight I CAN'T WORK UNLESS I AM IN A TINY STERILE CUBICLE, LIKE MY OLD JOB
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@arclight Yeesh
@ai6yr Techbros have (re)invented the coffee vending machine, now with extra DSM-IV!
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Denver Airport, presented without comment.
@arclight The incel magazine isn't supposed to outright say that it's an incel magazine.
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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.
@complexmath It's like a shoeshine for your glasses - so fancy!
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Denver Airport, presented without comment.
This is why men are idiots.
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Denver Airport, presented without comment.
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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