It’s nice to be able to call your parents when you’re bleeding out in the school atrium.

Latest version of Anubis has a JavaScript-free verification system. It isn’t as accurate, so I allow js-free visits only if the site isn’t being hammered. Which, tbf, prior to Anubis no one was getting in, JS or no JS.

Yay! I won’t edit my comment (so your comment will make sense) but I checked and they also list they/them on their github profile

I’ll say the developer is also very responsive. They’re (ambiguous ‘they’, not sure of pronouns) active in a libraries-fighting-bots slack channel I’m on. Libraries have been hit hard by the bots: we have hoards of tasty archives and we don’t have money to throw resources at the problem.

I’ll cry all the way to the bank and doctor, what with my retroactive pay raise, my pretty awesome health insurance, and my liberal time off. We even got hazard pay during the early pandemic (if we were in a position where we had to see people in person).

My union (AFSCME) bargains alongside the state cops. You might say it’s a union of unions. ACAB, but they get good benefits and never have a pay reduction. You can’t say that about most librarians.

Edit: oops, just noticed which community I’m in. I’m in the USA and I’m not happy about our politics. Sorry to be an ugly American and assume that if your coworkers were anti-union you must be USAian.

That’s a shame. I love my union and see real benefit in being a member.

Do you mean Massachusetts? Or am I missing something?

I just turned 40. My dad died of COVID 5 years ago.

Fuck my mom.

Older millennial, and ditto. It’s mostly older, with a smattering of 30-somethings with their kids

You’d think that, but I’ve had the command “get a tan for God’s sake you’re transparent” used as an insult against me. You can be too white for white supremacists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

It’s that second part that’s tricky.

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.

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.

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

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.