some dude arrives in my mentions to reply to a post about suggesting that private jets should be abolished with the most Milquetoast neoliberal bullshit

you will be shocked to hear that the open source software his startup is working on is vibecoded slop, I'm sure

@ariadne I'll never recover from the amount of shock I have been shook by.

@ariadne my blocklist hungers for new flesh and there is never a shortage in the replies to non-men

@ariadne Whee, your post on vibe coded slop reminds me of how I am so disorganized in thought now that I easily fall into the trap of vibe coding my way out of a paper bag instead of trying to do anything manually any more.

And then the constant disorganized thinking and leaps of logic lead me to believe that this gradual decline has been a long running sign that I'm no longer on an effective medical regimen, and should talk to my doctor about changing my medicine again, and making my visits more frequent than every 3 months.

founder (derogatory)

@ariadne

> all you need is a billion dollar. You know, a reasonable amount of money.
- Jensen Huang (CEO Nvidia)

not all founders to be clear, I've met quite a few who, like me, went on that journey so they could be in the show on their own terms

and I respect that

@ariadne Let‘s say it like this: if your primary motivation is money, you are not a ‚founder‘.

@icing I don't necessarily think the founder I am criticizing is in it for the money, but I think he's bought into the propaganda

@ariadne we can extend it to ‚money/fame‘ maybe?

Edit: nvm, I am too fed up with the world rn to think about this. peace out.✌️

anyway the particular founder I am criticizing mentions the use of private jets and chartered jets as a way to bypass TSA. and, sure, that sounds good in theory because the TSA are awful

but consider

maybe the reason why the TSA hasn't found anything ever is because the security theater provides sufficient psychological deterrence to make adversaries choose a different strategy, in which case it is actually achieving its purpose (deterrence)

and also

the whole point is moot anyway because private jets do not actually bypass TSA screening

as someone who has been a passenger on a private jet before, the security screening is handled at the FBO

(though I will concede FBO security screenings are typically done by the private sector rather than TSA directly but they have to meet the same standards)

@ariadne "founder" in the sense horses do.

@lanodan @ariadne The Eurostar between Europe and UK got security theater. Spain does, which is why using the train to Portugal is also not fun. I think that's it for Europe.

There is not even space available to do that in most cases. Just look at the relative size of e.g. Berlin Hbf (120M/a) and Los Angeles International (80M/a).

@wouter @waldi @lanodan @ariadne passport control was always needed because the UK has never been part of Schengen

I'm not entirely sure what security there are looking for. On a plane you have two options for luggage, one of which you can't access mid-flight, so more dangerous things get put there. On a train you have all of it with you at all time, so they can only really be checking for things that are actually illegal

@turmoni @wouter @lanodan @ariadne And they can check for too much or large luggage. Because Spain is also really great in such restrictions.

@ariadne “you should only be allowed to have corporate private turboprops, enjoy”

@kouhai that the CEO has to fly themselves