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grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • Would you rather unionize or buy some videogames?

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  • I'm a public employee in a union and we get these types of anti-union propaganda mailed to us from the creeps at the Freedom Foundation.

    Save money and celebrate your rights! Public employees save an average of $900!

    There's an "I want to leave the union" postcard filled out and attached, addressed to my union leaders.

    That one was St. Patrick's Day themed.

    Not posting an image because it has all my personal details already filled out

  • kingdom come

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  • Virtual Divine Intervention

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  • Maybe to feel some sort of connection? I made a Mii for my recently dead grandma in Tomodachi Life on the DS. It helped a bit with the grieving.

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  • To quote myself

    I’m not sure why it is like that nowadays. I guess in the beginning of ATC in the US it made sense for air bases to control the nearby airspace, and it probably just went from there, with maybe consolidation of towers as a cost-cutting measure along the way.

    Also,

    IIRC, the Army and Navy also operate their own ATC Yes, there is also Marine-run ATC.

    Spitballing:

    • institutions don't like losing control
    • Many towers are located on military bases
    • military air traffic controllers need to learn the ropes someplace that isn't an aircraft carrier or active deployment
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  • No, like I said, they're using the same systems, the same software, the same hardware. People at different towers talk to each other on the phone and on the radio, especially during handoffs between airspaces. The computers talk to each other. IIRC the information from one tower's radar is shared with other towers. They're not parallel systems, it's all the same system.

    edit: I've been using "airspace" to mean "volume controlled by a tower". There's many airspaces.

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  • Why would they sit in the same room? They're managing different airspace. There's over 250 towers, they can't all sit in the same room.

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  • It's a pun/joke. Abroad/a broad. OP is a woman, aka "a broad", and she's overseas, aka "abroad".

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  • It's that second part that's tricky.

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  • I've not read the report, but there'd only be one tower responsible for the airspace. Iirc, it was an FAA tower. What I heard happened was that the helicopter didn't follow the tower's instructions. But, again, I'm months out of date on that incident.

    Imagine airspace like a tray of cookies baked too-close together. Some are bigger than others, some are weird shapes, some are sugar cookies, some are chocolate. But it's a tray full of cookie. There's only one cookie at each spot.

    To stretch the metaphor further, imagine an ant walking across the tray. It's still only on one cookie at a time and it doesn't care if it's chocolate or sugar. At the edge of a cookie there's a handoff between cookies, where cookie A says "hey, cookie B, an Ant X is about to walk on you. Don't let them crash into any other ants, k? They're your responsibility now."

    Anyways, I'm going to go let my caffeine kick in.

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  • Kind of. It is more the same system, just some towers are operated by the military and some by the FAA. Each has their own airspace they are responsible for, but civilian aircraft can fly through airspace managed by military ATC and vice versa.

    I'm not sure why it is like that nowadays. I guess in the beginning of ATC in the US it made sense for air bases to control the nearby airspace, and it probably just went from there, with maybe consolidation of towers as a cost-cutting measure along the way.

    Caveat: it's been years since I've had to know any of this, so this might be outdated or misremembered.

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  • They use the same ATC systems and protocols, so handoffs between airspace should be the same whether it's a military or FAA tower.

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  • My guess is the Air Force. Iirc, the Army and Navy also operate their own ATC. I didn't know they did approach control for civilian aircraft, but that seems to be the case.

  • A vehicle drove into a crowd in Los Angeles, injuring 30 people, including at least 3 critically

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  • The driver was shot and it's unclear if they were shot before or after hitting the people with the vehicle.

  • Underwear

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  • Only alternative is to become a music teacher or Discworld Assassin. I don't make the rules.

  • Underwear

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  • They're space corgis, I'll have you know.

    And I'm the one with the boring underwear. The cuts I like tend to come in solid colors, maybe sometimes with flowers.

  • Underwear

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  • I knew a music teacher that only owned black underwear, on the in theory that if her underwear showed during a student's recital it wouldn't be obvious. (Her recital uniform was all black.)

    Are your a music teacher?

  • Alberta's measles outbreaks surpass case counts reported for entire U.S.

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  • I got my measles booster this year and it was no worse than a COVID shot. Scheduling at my local pharmacy it was easy and I got no pushback. (CT, USA)

    I'm from the era where we only got 1 shot and now the recommendation is 2 shots for best coverage. I may have gotten a second shot as a kid but I have no record or recollection of it. I figured it's better to be sure.

  • Employability

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  • Maybe, if something speaks to me. Downside of face tattoos is wrinkles. I'm middle-aged, and wrinkles are right around the corner for me.

    Right now a cute critter on my wrist would make me happy (and, side-benefit, keep me from biting my wrist when I get super stressed--no biting wrist friend! [I've tested this with temporary tattoos and it works for me.])

  • The FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut Out

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  • Employability

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  • Come to academia. At least 25% of my coworkers have visible tattoos (generally ankle or forearm).

    I'm strongly considering a wrist tattoo, on the side facing me but not the underside.