JNL on Nostr: Sort of relatedly, this month I got retinal scanned at the airport for the first time ...

Sort of relatedly, this month I got retinal scanned at the airport for the first time (I am a stalwart 'I refuse'er), and the people who sold me to the devil were the laid-back-but-nefarious folx at Amsterdam Schiphol. You get fish-funneled into the section of departure screening that is unmanned, in which you stand finally before a locked automatic door that doesn't open until you let the screen scan your face. It was utter nonsense. I had wondered when I would simply be forced ... the very fine people who also gave us Elsevier just went ahead and did it.