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Do We Need To Be This Scared?

I was with a friend a few days ago. She is planning a trip from Seattle to Chicago by train in July. She's 'old'; she's 76 or so. The train trip sounds fun to me and to her! Some of her other friends have advised her to get a burner phone (Gjohnsit posted a comment about these a few days ago) and a burner laptop, with nothing on them but maybe games, in case she's stopped by the police or TSA (really, on an in-country train trip?) and she's detained and her phone and laptop are confiscated and searched because she is 'suspicious'. Do they actually do this kind of searching of people on trains as well as airplanes? Any passenger? I've not heard of it happening on trains, I have to admit.

Daffodils in the garden, because, SPRING!!!

It is good to have an end to the journey towards; but it is the journey that matters,
in the end.

I'm trying to figure out what the purpose of the all female suborbital space shot was all about.
They had no control and were just passengers in an automatous rocket that basically went up and came back down.

Once again we've arrived at the point where that MAGA crowd said that Trump would never dare go.

Here's Richard Wolff, describing the predicted effect of Donald Trump's erratic tariff policies upon the American economy. The whole thing is three hours but it's broken up into sections and don't worry, you won't have to watch for long past my bookmark to get the point:

You can't have stupidity without intelligence to compare it to. And our received intellectual culture firmly believes in the wisdom of, and the need for, the measurement and ranking of smartness. This paradigm first affected me when I was five years old and the Dallas Independent School District tested me along with all the other kids about to start the first grade. Based on that event, I was assigned to a normal (i.e. ungifted) class.