I posted on this a few months ago, but with Christmas travel season coming up, it's probably worth repeating, if only to provoke a hearty — nervous? — chuckle

of course, there are drugs available to control such breakdowns

NYT publishes a new article about how a shortage of air traffic controllers is leading to dangerous mistakes. Meanwhile, some in the Federal Aviation Administration are pushing to lower standards for new controllers, like decreasing the importance of the AT-SAT standardized test… pic.twitter.com/TgdyAKSQob

— Yang (@SheluyangPeng) December 3, 2023

Blind paraplegics don’t scare me as much as the possibility that a member of that new disability class, “the neurodiverse”, has a bad day at the office while guiding in my flight.