Silver lining of depression is taking risks and having mildly entertaining stories after.

Captain Roadkill Brainworms will get right on that.

Fuel that was already being burned at a high rate because of flying down in thicker air.

Typically, the hiring decision is made by the person the position reports to. They’ll have a salary cap to adhere to, which is certainly too low, which means the employee who is willing to take the position is likely underqualified or incompetent. It may also be in the hiring manager’s interest to fill the position with someone less competent for a variety of reasons. You don’t want the candidate to be good enough to have the opportunity to job hop right out in nine months. You don’t want the candidate to be someone who would challenge your decisions and put your own job in jeopardy. Maybe you just need a warm body in a role immediately, fully intending to fire them when you find the “right” candidate, and then just never do that.

HR just does the paperwork.

The job of HR is to protect the company from its employees.

No oxygen problems that I recall. I don’t think there’s a hypoxia risk until 10K feet? Cold I’m sure because it was like flying with a window open. The heaters for the cabin air probably couldn’t keep up.

I was on a flight to Richmond, VA, many years ago. Delayed delayed, mechanical something. We finally board and depart, and right in the middle of the climb after takeoff, the plane turns real hard and heads back to the airport. People were kind of freaked out, they weren’t telling us anything.

Back in the airport, we learn that there was some issue with the cabin pressure. They thought they had fixed it, they hadn’t. Eventually, they decided, “Fuck it, we’re going to fly across the country in this 737 at 7000 feet.” Maybe a third of the passengers got back on the plane, I was one. It was cold as fuck.

Already posted over there about it! :)

fedia.io is being slow.

The mobile app for mbin is a browser

They kind of do.

Deregulate? Because there’s oh so many regulations already?

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman thinks some jobs will be ‘totally, totally gone’ thanks to cocaine, but he still wouldn’t trust cocaine with his ‘medical fate’

No, no - It’s because it’s mechahitler that this contract is now in place.

Nothing is unbreakable.

“I said I need a HAM RADIO, not a RADIAL HAM.”

Cuba does this to some extent, though I don’t think it’s internet connected. They do share contraband media smuggled in on SD cards.

You know there’s fascist instances on fediverse, right?

We’ve had discussions about this, with and without our kids. Yeah, they need to be in the loop with their friends, and being in that loop can mean being exposed to some bullshit.

That’s always been the case, though. The additional risk of modern social media, I think, is that it’s always with you. One of the rules we laid down was to plug your phone in outside your room before you go to bed. That was relatively strongly enforced when they were younger, just getting started in that arena. They’re all essentially adults now, so we don’t enforce it anymore, but they sometimes still do it anyway.

It’s important to be connected, and it’s okay to be disconnected when you want to be.

Damn kids, get out of my yard