Recently traveled abroad and was shocked at how dystopian moving through borders is anymore. Scans after scans of passports, fingerprinting, face scans, questions about intentions for visiting, paperwork, cameras throughout airports that are surely doing untold amounts of biometric analysis with some bullshit AI…in some of these places you get laughed at if you ask about opting out. It almost isn’t worth it.
According to my dad, 9/11 pretty much changed air travel for good. Everything afterwards became extremely strict.
Yep, I flew regularly in the 90’s, it was much easier and relaxed.