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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 25 Aug 2017

    Semi regular tweet contemplating the pathology of boarding a 50 seat plane in 8 boarding groups. (American added one for extra pathology)

    11:48 AM - 25 Aug 2017
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      2. Uhlan Mask‏ @Rzhevsky 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        If I'm not worried about room for my carry-on, I sometimes place myself in the group, "final boarding!"

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Rzhevsky

        One of the reasons 8 groups is especially pathological w/a 50 seat plane is everyone uses gate check. No overhead fights.

        0 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
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      2. Ruxypin‏ @SkeddyRuxypin 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        come on future https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/11/theres-a-better-way-to-board-planes/383181/ …

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      3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SkeddyRuxypin

        That measures "better" based on real efficiency, not degree to which boarding can be used to reinforce indignities of inequality, right?

        1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
      4. Ruxypin‏ @SkeddyRuxypin 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        Yes, the issue is airlines want to let the cattle cars see the swells board and desire their streamlined life..

        2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Uhlan Mask‏ @Rzhevsky 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SkeddyRuxypin @emptywheel

        Never could understand that. If I was a swell, I'd hate the parade of peasants past my seat, and want to board last, leave first.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Ruxypin‏ @SkeddyRuxypin 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @Rzhevsky @emptywheel

        When you fly first class they seat you comfortably and then will literally hold up the poors to serve mimosas.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      7. Ruxypin‏ @SkeddyRuxypin 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SkeddyRuxypin @Rzhevsky @emptywheel

        It is spectacle on both ends. The swells get to watch the sweaty poors while they sip their alchojuice and reflect on the joys of wealth.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Uhlan Mask‏ @Rzhevsky 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @SkeddyRuxypin @emptywheel

        Nouveau riche. I swear, they will not blush from any display.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      1. Fats Durston‏ @FatsDurston 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I mean how will we know who's if plebe status if it's not reinscribed at every step?!

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      1. Elongated Huskrat‏ @dearner 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        A better system: 50 individual boarding groups, each one sold via blind auction. Didn't win any? Hope there's room on the next plane!

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      1. Richard Taylor‏ @dakine100 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I spent most of 2002 in airport/hotel hell with lot of flights on 50seat RJs. Don't think ever more than 2 groups n 1 freq flyr

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      1. BR54911‏ @BR54911007 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        from front to back

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      1. Marcos Garcia‏ @Marcos_R_Garcia 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        They do it wrong too. If they filled back to front then the whole affair would go by that much faster.

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      1. Jack Schriver‏ @JackSchriver 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        You're just lucky to be a small flyer. We BIG flyers REALLY have problems!

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      1. Yellow Jacket 🇺🇸 🐝‏ @httvern 25 Aug 2017
        Replying to @emptywheel

        I'm in group 8 at this very moment and I feel like a total failure. This is America's caste system at work

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