> FWIW your bags may still occasionally travel without you (but you still have to board A flight)

This is false.

If you check into the airport early (4+ hours) your bag may go on an earlier flight without you.

And you can decide not to board your original flight.

I wouldn't say false especially when quoting the whole sentence. What you suggest is so rare (worldwide) it might as well be false. It's such a bad idea for the airline to ship your bags before the passenger makes it onto the plane.

> Someone is paying for it, which is what we're arguing about.

Yeah, passengers without TSA Precheck are paying for it.

Your flight ticket already includes the TSA and airport fees.

> In the San Francisco Bay Area, the locals refer to SF proper as “The City” (not “Frisco”.)

Eh, they also say “I’m going to SF”

But agreed definitely not “Frisco”

Soft power is _literally_ what pays your rent and mortgage.

Switzerland has much more soft power than the US, due to Switzerland avoiding military entanglements.

Only because of his stupidity:

https://www.axios.com/2017/12/15/trumps-north-korean-armada-...

“ As President Trump publicly declared last week that he was "sending an armada" to the Sea of Japan in an attempt to send a message to North Korea, the carrier group was actually sailing thousands of miles in the other direction to war game with the Australian Navy, per the NYT, which reported that the mixup was due to "a glitch-ridden sequence of events."”

What’s funny is he started an UNE essay war with Iran, strengthened the Iranian regime and gave them a guaranteed income source from a toll Trump can’t get rid of. And this is your argument? You’re funny.