I think I’d be pretty distracted if they also declared the anti-trans rhetoric was all a mistake and actually we love and support LGBTQ+ of all stripes and here’s a big pile of money as an apology for earlier. Also we removed the sex and/or gender markings from all American passports.

That would help distract me.

… even less if you also use a condom.

That is more clever than I was thinking: hop on VR chat and ask my friend to do it for me.

I imagine it’s like the urge to lick a 9-volt battery or touch the plate after the waitperson says “careful, it’s hot”. It’s unpleasant, they know it’s unpleasant, but they have to check for themselves.

My library, you have to check out books on reserve from the circulation desk. They’re for in-library use only, 3 or 6 hours at a time, and if you take it into a study room and scan the whole thing with your phone we saw nothing.

We don’t like the constant churn of textbooks, either. They eat into our budget. We really appreciate when a professor lends us their personal copies of a textbook for us to keep on reserve. We also try and steer instructions to Open Educational Resources (OER), which are available for free.

Wealth disparity sucks and shouldn’t result in different access to education.

So, what’s the latest topic you want to info-dump about? I’m curious and invite an info-dump.

Fair enough. I’m a tad prickly about it because folks assume sometimes and it gets tiring.

There was no “she” in my story.

Edit: and we just had a test of the system. I got home bubbling about updating Anubis and the new config options, then asked “would you like to hear more?” and he was like “sounds like you had a good day, no thank you” then flopped face-first onto the couch.

Yep! I even use that tone of voice with him.

My partner has taught/trained me to ask “would you like to hear more?” before I info-dump on him.

Example: Me: “at work today I’ve been playing around with configuration settings for Primo VE, specifically the search scopes… Um… would you like to hear more?”

Response: “I’m glad you have an interesting problem at work and no, no thank you.”

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I’ve thought for a while that happiness is the removal of major stressors.

No, you can look up what property someone owns, generally in the town or county records. It’s just if you own a property there’s a good chance it’s also your home.

I didn’t get these mailings back when I rented. Confounding factor: I was in a different union. Same employer, though.

So, you can look up the private address of most homeowners in the states I’ve lived. Usually these records are online, sometimes not. If you want to obfuscate your ownership of a property there’s some weird stuff you can do with having your home owned by a corporation and then you own the corporation or something. I don’t think that’s commonly done.

I’m a public employee, so my name is a public record. I own a home, so my address is a public record.

I’m not sure how they know which union I’m a member of, though. There’s at least 3 on campus.

I work at a state school and from what I see we’re mostly worried about maintaining enrollment, student retention, and what to do if ICE visits (official campus guidance is call campus police, say nothing, and you don’t know anyone’s immigration status and even if you did that’s private student information.)

Maybe fancier schools are different.

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

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.

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

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.