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[-] henfredemars@infosec.pub 96 points 2 months ago

Don’t worry. If they’re a pilot, they’re gonna tell you.

[-] TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip 57 points 2 months ago

Pilots, vegans, and polyamorous couples.

[-] lena@gregtech.eu 70 points 2 months ago

Don't forget about Linux users!

[-] calliope@retrolemmy.com 37 points 2 months ago

For a while, people who did CrossFit too

[-] ratel@mander.xyz 16 points 2 months ago

They're all suffering from injuries now.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Yay kipping pull ups

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

They still exist, but it's not the cultural phenomenon it once was.

[-] chunes@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

If someone is a vegan, polyamorous linux user who's a pilot, which one would they mention first?

[-] Eheran@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They give you a card.

[-] janus2@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

i would carry around a cardboard spinner wheel as a joke at that point

[-] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 2 months ago
[-] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago
[-] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

And marathon runners

[-] Mora@pawb.social 28 points 2 months ago

polyamorous couples

I mean how else would we recruit more people for our D&D sessions?

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago

with a pineapple

[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Just taking a break from Crossfit to have a vape and read this comment. Very true! ( I use arch btw)

[-] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Damn, as a polyamorous vegan with a pilot’s cert, I feel called out. But I wasn’t going to say anything about any of that until your comment performed a hat-trick and summoned me from the depths.

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[-] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

They’ve kind of earned it. Just watching an airline pilot put 200 people down safely in a crosswind is all the convincing one needs.

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago

then we clap

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[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 60 points 2 months ago

It's a cultivated status. You have to have a lot of money to become one, you get paid a lot of money, and then you don't get to have a domestic life once you become one. So a lot goes into selling they lifestyle of being a pilot, which is what aura really is but don't tell the kids that.

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 49 points 2 months ago

But also nobody wants to see a pilot rushing through the airport, because they’re supposed to be calm, levelheaded people. And you definitely don’t want them rushing through takeoff procedures.

[-] No1@aussie.zone 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, they should be nice and relaxed. Maybe a few drinks at the bar would help

[-] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Aeroflot pilot has entered chat.

[-] ByteJunk@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

You mean the bar

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

The first two lines weren’t true until more recently. Becoming a pilot was expensive, but not out of reach. You could literally do it by earning money fueling planes up until ~20 years ago. Also, you didn’t get paid shit up until 10 years ago and they started desperately throwing money at new pilots to hire and keep them. Even some larger airlines paid like shit for newer pilots depending on aircraft for a really long while.

The dream was to make it to a major and put enough years in to make the big money.

But in the last decade things have really changed. Pay is decent even for a lot of the smaller aircraft (but not great, depending). But training costs are outrageous compared to 25-35 years ago.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Good to know. Thanks for the fact check

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Not trying to contradict, just add a little updating and nuance.

[-] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

No, I got you 👍

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 months ago

What about the guys that pump the go-juice into the wing tanks?

[-] rook@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago
[-] Feyr@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

Pulped, digested, and fed back into the engine as fuel

[-] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago
[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

That's the red variant.

[-] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

I'm always surprised they don't have their own proprietary underground tunnel system to get around the airports. But no, they just walk through all the concourses with all the rest of us plebians.

[-] Dremor@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

How else would they flaunt their big pilot energy?

[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 17 points 2 months ago
[-] rook@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago

He probably practised his whole life for this moment, I bet he has other lines too

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

The last line is in regular rotation.

[-] the_mighty_kracken@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The escalator thing? He definitely wanted to look at her butt.

[-] golden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

No thanks. I don't simp for job positions.

[-] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

This is a weird take to me. Why should we not idolize and revere workers who do critical labor on which our society depends? I understand objecting to the lack of idolization for other forms of labor. But to say that you dont afford respect and admiration to workers performing any labor is odd.

[-] golden@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I respect workers by wanting them to get their fair share of the labor.

I don't need to start rating people based on their profession and denigrating most workers for not having these auraful jobs.

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[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 1 points 2 months ago

For pulluting the shit out of the skies, and bringing the end upon us, with their own two hands.

[-] grindemup@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why would you idolize anyone? To err is human; we all have flaws and just because you have a fancy profession does not mean you are a good person.

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[-] espentan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

The (air)bus drivers of the sky.

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