I want to second the other commenter and also tell you directly that I love your posts and comments too. It’s always a good day when I see PugJesus

It used to be consistent for years post-9/11. Rules were enforced more or less consistently. Especially the liquids rules. Some variations but not to the degree that it is at today. This chaos is only the past few years.

Strongly suspect it has nothing to do with security and everything to do with the system breaking down due to abysmal leadership.

Also probably the paid extortion programs like CLEAR which have separate relaxed rules standards for people who pay the extortion fee.

Or jd Vance will give the pardon after they burry Trump… CONSPIRACY

Losing Gawker was a big turning point for the public not having a consistent satirical biting rag news site. Looking back, losing gawker probably contributed to the enshitification of Reddit too with the influx of Gawker commenters. We may never have been able to avoid the current reality but if Gawker was around still it would have certainly been different.