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US hires over 2,000 video gamers as air traffic controllers (www.fox21online.com)

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[–] Siegehammer85@lemmy.world 66 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Please at let be the ones that are the hardcore MS flight sim nerds, they do have many who take it super serious at least.

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[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

teabagging their coworker/teammates that they just betrayed for the lols

"and they pay me for this shit lmao FUCK YOU MOM I TOLD YOU MY SKILLS WOULD PAY OFF"

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[–] tal@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

---The Far Side, October 15, 1990

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[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 9 points 2 days ago

sitting in the cabin

"this is your captain, brb nerds, going afk"

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[–] knuk@piefed.ca 7 points 2 days ago (1 child)

The recruitment video from April showed scenes from games including Fortnite and an American football title, and proclaimed: "You've been training for this..."

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[–] Siegehammer85@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Fortnite..... Yeah, fuck, we dead... That'll be like eleven 9/11s💀

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 days ago* (2 children)

are you sure about that

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[–] Balldowern@lemmy.world 1 point 2 days ago

Hey Bossman!

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[–] Siegehammer85@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

You just reassured me, 100% without copyright infringements to boot!

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[–] AzuranAurora@piefed.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Best we can spare are the ones flying a hot air balloon into the control tower at unreasonable speeds.

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