The first shooting I remember was the Heath High School shooting in 1997. Things haven’t been ok for a long time

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

The second. John 3:16 is a very popular verse in the Baptist crowd I grew up around in the 90s. I don’t think it’s any more a fascist dog whistle than a Jesus fish. YMMV on how christofascist that is.

Like, I never went to church and it’s ingrained in my brain from my classmates and reading bumper stickers.

Do you mean Massachusetts? Or am I missing something?

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.

But do you know the trucker’s hitch?

Bad joke. I have distant elderly relatives (my aunts’ cousins) in Fall River. Now I’m worried I’ll get bad news at tomorrow’s family stitch 'n bitch.

Give Hey Japan a look. I’m a noob, but it seems friendly.

Thank-you for your info dump :)

And the Wii can be Linuxed, if you get creative enough. Source: former roommate did it