If the medical school put out adverts like this and specially asked "gamers" to apply then it is okay to focus on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/us/politics/air-traffic-c...

yes many of them also play video games and they were specifically focused on this recruitment drive. it wasn't a side effect that just happens to correlate

Movie watchers and food eaters, too.

100% of air traffic controllers had consumed dihydrogen monoxide prior to an aviation disaster.

So a chemist and his student walk into a bar.

The chemist says "I'll have an H2O"

Bartender says, "fine. What'll it be for you, young man?"

Student says "I'll have an H2O too"

And dies.

Yeah but do they read hacker news? Are they hackers?! Are hackers controlling our skies now?!

That's because this article is PR fluff for Sean Duffy to make it seem like they are on top of the air traffic controller problem.

When you look at what a video game is defined as it includes: mobile games that are just microtransaction driven only & gambling on any kind of electronic machine.

"US hires over 2000 people who eat tacos as Air Traffic controllers"