I fucking hate that every couple of years we just backpedal on everything. So god damn exhausting.
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It takes so long to fix everything, too!
Yeah well, clearly it wasn't fixed fast enough so we should vote back in the people that break everything. Or decide that we shouldn't vote at all like the lazy sacks of shit we are.
Propaganda is a hell of a drug
This is the part that bothers me so much about everything that is being dismantled right now. It took forever to get it to where it is, and it still needed a lot of improvement. And it was just smashed seemingly overnight.
It's like a sandcastle. Takes forever to build a good one, and it takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.
takes some asshole one second to step on it and destroy the whole thing.
Absolutely. The last one to just go "lol nah" and demolish the working class this hard was Reagan, and we were still reaping the fallout from those asinine policies when 2016 hit!
We had never actually fixed any of the shit that Reagan broke. They kept doing more of the same stuff he had started
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If only we could chart that and see which political party is in charge at which points, and then never vote for the one that puts us here ever again... Oh well
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10 years from now USA is gonna be a 3rd world country with all these cuts.
Trump was always obsessed with "shit hole countries". Now he's turning the US into one of them.
He wants us to be exactly like Russia. Complete shithole company run by the oligarchy, who live lavish luxury lives.
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Not even gonna take 10 years. By the end of Spray Tan's term the country is gonna be a complete toilet.
Assuming he doesn't find a way to stay in office indefinitely.
It's already a 3rd world country, has been for some time now.
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Say it with me people.
Seperate infrastructure and service!
If the companies responsible for laying cable and wires weren't tied to a single brand we'd instantly break the monopolies by town that we currently have. They would also focus on maintaining the infrastructure and growing the network instead of the profits going elsewhere.
From a Swede with gigabit internet: didn't you Americans already give a lot of money to your ISPs to build fiber? Maybe time to demand a ROI?
Please don't remind me.
I wish these companies would all just go bankrupt and die already.
There should be daily reminders until there are consequences imho.
Kinda hard when they’ve gone full mafioso and split up the country into territories so that we only have like one choice and have to be a customer. Because capitalism runs on no competition and monopolies, right?
that was ages ago, they took the money and never developed it, they started to do something last year with biden, but trump reversed. Just like with HIGH RAIL system in california, trump blocked it all.
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Didn't ISPs just get tens of billions of dollars to expand high-speed connections to rural areas? For the second time?
And they kept it all to buy themselves the latest private jets stocked full of cocaine and hookers. Again.
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Get ready for your shitty internet to cost even more.
FCC: Doing our job deemed extraneous.
Broadband quality:
Great
Good
Decent
Whatever ✅
Thank God we're also eliminating cheap solar panels from China. Who wants an energy source so unreliable. It literally didn't even shine for most of the entire time. Sure it's been lit for just a few million years but whatever are you gonna do when it eventually runs out of helium and hydrogen?
I'd prefer the new ford trash diesel hybrid....just start the engine on gasoline, switch to diesel, then just dump your trash for that week in the back and wait for the big ass black plume to reduce yo just a healthy soot. It can get 23miles per trashcan!..sorry, 2.3 downhill miles. Isn't it great? Mr.TrashyBurn!
other country: lets bring in gig speeds Japan: futile we have and are testing terrabytes.. America: i like cheese.. govt cheese
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This is the same administration who is going all-in on oil and coal for energy production. Nobody should be surprised.
Next up EPA switches to visual inspection of water sources for purity.
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As someone who has had download speeds above gigabit all throughout the 2020s so far (and for under $60/mo as well), it blows my mind that there are parts of the country that still don't even have 10% of that.
Like what I'm saying is that even cell phone towers can do multi-gig speeds these days FFS, so there's no excuse even for rural areas to not have at least a couple of reliable gigabit options available, no matter where you are in the country.
If they can figure out reliable 5G in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, surely they can install an antenna on grandpa's farm and beam a 2.5Gbps signal directly to his rooftop. I mean my 1400Mbps line comes in through a 5G gateway sitting in my kitchen window sill and it has been just as reliable as fiber for me, even with a giant pine tree in the way blocking line-of-sight to the tower. ISPs need to stop making up excuses, and actually start investing those outrageous monthly fees they collect into better infrastructure.
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Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
Faster broadband is good. Who fucking cares what political party?
But corporations don’t want to spend money on customers, so they’d rather keep customers on slow speeds and charge the same price.
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Well yeah, we all know it's good. That's why Republicans want to take it away.
Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
When will people who say shit like this wake the fuck up and realize that life is political?
Grow up and deal with it like everyone else, fucking cowards.
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For rural communities to get higher speeds ISPs have to actually use the money the government gives them for increasing rural community internet speeds on increasing rural community internet speeds. If broadband is defined as "one house in the county has access to internet as fast as your grandparents had growing up" then they've already met their goal and they don't need to spend any money and collect pure profit from government subsidies.
Biden thought that was bullshit and established policy to direct them to do the right thing. The current administration, however, is more than happy taking their checks to the back.
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Why does everything have to be so fucking political?
The problem with ignoring politics is that politics is never going to ignore you.
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Keep poor people in the dark or they won’t vote for you.
Such great. So many again
Analysis of broadband affordability deemed "extraneous" by FCC chair.
The royal court is displeased with matters of the common peasantry
We will kill the effort with but a word
We will accept no further pleas for explanation
Sounds like bullshit coming down the pipes to try and distract us from the news that the commander in chief is a kiddy diddler
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