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Sadly if you want to travel these days face scans are unavoidable. I still avoid them for commercial services, but yeah. Fly to europe or any major US city and you are going to be made to submit to a face scan to get through security.
Tell me you're from the US without telling me you're from the US.
I... mentioned the US in my comment?
Yeah but do it again this time without telling me first.
My school was in lockdown again this week for a possible active shooter.
It's written basically as if the reader is also expected to be American.
Which annoyed me.
But I've had a rough week. Never mind me.
Well I can't speak to what its like in places I've never been.
Tell me you can't speak to places you have never been before without telling me.