https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring
hi rdrama 
I got a few pings after people shared places I posted my most recent article, and that made me remember I've been neglecting to share them here lately.
can't have that. so here's my latest Drama
you may have already seen it but now you're seeing it from me, here
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So it wasn't enough for the FAA to lower standards to hire more Blacks
The FAA rejected qualified candidates, despite being massively short-staffed, just so the ratio of Whites to Blacks was better
Jesus Christ
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!commenters Compare /r/ATC's reception from a year ago to now
A year ago: moderately receptive, many commenters are appreciative that someone is finally uncovering the scandal
Now: mass downmarseys, complete contempt, not even bothering to engage with the article (despite being much shorter)
Trump has caused the left-of-center to circle the wagons, you will never get them to admit any issues with DEI for at least four years. Sorry
@TracingWoodgrains 
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im not readinf all of that
Downmarseys
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You are the best user on this site by far
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I thought i was
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No u are bimothy
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Hi you're Bimothy!
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Wrong
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This story gives me the vibes of this
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I sent your initial writeup to a friend who is very afraid to fly and is flying to PR in August and she wasn't thrilled
Telling her it was by a gay married atheist so you know it's a major issue if he's writing about it helped things a lot I think
Thanks Trace!
yes i already tweeted this at you but this is a new platform and i still think its funny
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Look can we just finally admit that just like black people are the best at playing basketball, white straight men are the best at holding difficult jobs?
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But Reddit told me the crash was because Trump fired some people this past week. Who should I believe?
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FAA didn't seem at fault, the pilots likely were
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The gist is that it was a dangerous heavily used path with an accident waiting to happen, ATC was understaffed, and it was a pilot in training
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The fricking airspace was fricking totally gayed up after 9/11.
The fricking routes are not fricking managed by the fricking FAA like in normal places. It's an unholy alliance of DHS, DOD, FEMA (yes, really) & FAA via NCRCC. FAA still publish them but operational priorities are not fricking decided by them.
The fricking pre-9/11 approaches were fricking much more sensible but they don't want planes flying over the fricking capitol anymore.
Hopefully this causes DCA to be closed. It's easily shortlist for worst airports.
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apparently they had a near miss the day prior
I'd bet they had upped the Continuity of Operations/Doomsday missions recently and the new optempo bit them in the butt
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Reddit, obvs
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I am so glad you've figured out a way to write more economically and be less overwrought, I was nervous clicking this link remembering your previous long posts which (although very dramatic and well-researched) posed a barrier of entry due to their unnecessary density
Idk whether you've started reading the prose aloud to make it work better or hired and editor or whatever but keep doing jt
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Ok
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Nice article. I am still angry and continue to have distrust in the federal government
One complaint: Not to neg people too badly, but come the frick on- If you can direct air traffic, you should be able to take a darn screenshot properly instead of using your phone!
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Might have been at some testing center at the school
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This should be on the exam for all government positions.
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HEY EINSTEIN, I'M ON YOUR SIDE!
TRANS LIVES MATTER
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Hacker News says you're wrong and a rightoid for claiming DEI is ever a bad thing
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42944203
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that legitster dude is cringe, he's all over the thread trying to do the usual "it didnt happen and even if it did it's being exaggerated by MAGA, and it wasn't DEI because DEI is something else". hes been corrected by long comments about 10 times and still the top comment
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Who was it here that hated Trace?
Oh yeah,
@Impassionata 
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That's how you can tell Trace is a good person.
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they can see all of the individual pieces
the abuse of power
the xenophobia
the use of violence
and they tend to think that they haven't reacted prematurely, haven't overreacted.
and they go back and they check their "priors" and confirm that their preconceived notions were math feelings math strong rational
but they never could accept that leftists got it right back in 2016 on just a few vibes alone.
they never could accept that these movements are well studied, as is the moderate denialism around them.
so: puncturing that moderate denialism is a primary animating force of the wider Impassionata gang.
(Musk is just a nazi because the story told over the nazi salute doesn't obscure the fact of the salute, or what it means to the fascists who see it, who though they are low in number, nevertheless definitely believe Musk is a fascist. the attempt to rip all woke language from our society is just the kind of language game that woke-critical arguments vilify. enantiodromia! woke derangement syndrome ultimately culminates in an anti-woke purity spiral. "virtue signaling" and "vice signaling" are a sign that politics have become 'virtual': it becomes possible to assume that no one means anything by their signals, and this postmodern hogwash eats good sense and contributes to an inability to call the darn fascism what it is: fascism.)
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elon musk never did a nazi salute. and trans lives matter
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he did TWO you frickin CHUD
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No. This is a lie. a nazi salute is arm up straight out in front with no motion too the chest. That is not what elon did. It doesn't even look like it. trans lives matter
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He didn't even say "sieg heil", yet people claim it was a nazi salute. Curious.
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A PhD 19th Century historian who specializes in studying the third reich and modern radicalization told me otherwise.
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Well then they are an r-slur. Every video of someone doing a nazi salute is of a very different gesture. The description on Wikipedia is of a different gesture. Trans lives matter
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I don't know man, the screenshot of the tweet had a LOT of upmarseys on /r/whitepeopletwitter, seems like a reliable source to me
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Aevann, would it be easy to do holiday specific wordfilters, or would that require major changes to the code?
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Yup!
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#TwerkForTrace
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Did you see the HN thread, what do you think?
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I actually read the entire article and thought it was balanced and well written. Thanks for sharing bb.
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How about a FAAG article follow up?
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luv you trace
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Great write-up
!saved
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Are you the THIRD trannerino
who is into aircraft crashes? 
https://rdrama.net/post/338866/why-are-trannerinos-attracted-to-airplane
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This is validating
Plane crashes and disasters are the only thing I've noticed women have male-style neurodivergent interests in
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your writing has become excellent.
if still a bit myopic with all of the fascism. still.
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Keeping planes from crashing into each other is fascism
Not to mention the misogyny. Peepeepits? Really? Come on.
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That isn't even remotely implied.
There's a constitutional crisis going on right now because an unelected oligarch nazi is using executive power the executive branch explicitly does not have against an agency that was involved in investigating that oligarch; there's a clear conflict of interest and an obvious appearance of impropriety.
Meanwhile the FBI is in turmoil because an investigation is being launched into the investigation launched of the January 6th coup.
Trace writes well from within the moderate framework of evenhanded politics, but his use of evenhanded politics at a time of crisis is woefully blind to the reality we are facing.
I don't have a problem with giving some credit to Vance but without the acknowledgment of the present reality, Trace is on the record as one who has yet to meet or even understand the moment.
The plot update has hit, and Trace is writing about soviet era politics the day after 9/11. yes soviet era politics matter, but 9/11 just happened and the war on terror is beginning, what are you even doing?
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This was more blatantly fricked up than I expected it to be. More shit like this needs to be brought to light because I am certain it has been happening in every field in the last ten years.
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Next we need to get Michael Tracey on this website
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you're too high calibre for this site dude
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My takeaway is that it's all just a bunch of crazy kids on (community) college campuses
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Good article, but a side-note. Is that guy from The Real World now the Secretary of Transport?
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Spot on
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So why publicly identify as a furry?
Is it cub or feral that you're into?
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Did this retired control allege any sort of obvious categorical disparities in those that were allowed to not wash out but then shifted to management?
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It's r-slurred socialism/communism that the government operates ATC services in the US. Even most Europoors use private ATC, it generates revenue and doesn't need to be publicly run.
It's like the airports being government owned. US communism at it's finest.
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Enthralling.
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Good read Tracy! Keep up the w work!
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cliffs?
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Jimmy
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Don't fall off 'em.
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Solid article.
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Where can I find the pdf for the "Controller Hiring by the Numbers" document?
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Writing articles is for legacy media plebs. The numedia where you slap a pic and 2-3 sentences and post it on X and you'll get more likes. Another strategy is stealing articles like yours and putting into ChatGPT and asking to spit out 280 chars or less of ragebait
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Snapshots:
https://www.tracingwoodgrains.com/p/the-full-story-of-the-faas-hiring:
ghostarchive.org
archive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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