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Soccer. Rants. Whatnot. 🇺🇸🇪🇸
I think it’s more than there’s so many people doing pro-installed lights now that the guys who do them are booked solid, so they’re doing them earlier and earlier for new clients.
November 16, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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For posterity, here's what is still my favorite MLS goal ever.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 AM
But we only had two people on the mid shift (graveyard, overnight).

Anyway there’s a bunch of places where they don’t have enough people so there’s various restrictions on the flights.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
If you’re short-handed for whatever reason, you gotta cut back on the traffic.

The flip side is also true; the FAA tries to “staff to traffic”, meaning the slow shifts don’t get as many controllers assigned.

In my old area, B-area in ZSE, regular dayshift number was 14 controllers. Afternoon, 12.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
There’s been solid answers. Basically, it’s a list of all the various airspaces and/or facilities that are short-handed.

The FAA now uses various things to trigger certain reductions in the amount of traffic allowed into an airspace.

Staffing is one. You can only work so many planes at a time.
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I paused it at the moment Marty McFly realizes all this and explained to D and G that this persona was based on Trump.

And D said “so basically we’re living in this timeline?”

I said yeah, that’s why we all feel like making the same face (as Marty when he realizes it) all the time:
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
100% into it by halfway through.

So much so that tonight we’re watching Back To The Future 2.

In Ep 2, of course, in alternate 1985, Biff Tannen is the richest man in the US, owns casinos and businesses, plasters his own name on everything, has paintings of himself… generally a huge narcissist.
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM