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by relevant_thing 3680 days ago
~850 million US-based passenger * flights per year

~15 minutes in TSA waiting per passenger per flight

~80 years in a life

850,000,000 passengers per year * 15 minutes = 12,750,000,000 minutes of passenger time per year ≈ 24,241 years of passenger time per year

24,241 years of passenger time per year / 80 years per life ≈ 303 passenger lives per year.

The TSA effectively kills ~300 people per year just by wasting our time.