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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Infrastructure can be a real problem in some places.

    I’m currently on a mountain and since they upgraded to a hybrid satellite/cable system the speeds have skyrocketed. Laying cable/towers is just not viable, especially with dense rock peaks blocking line of sight.

    Also I have coworkers in Nigeria who lose internet multiple times a day (and often don’t have the bandwidth for a video call) but most of them have bitten the bullet and paid the high up-front cost to get starlink at home. And now can do HD video calls with zero interruption (unless they have power issues, but that’s a whole other thing).

    So I think there’s a lot of use-cases for sattelite, especially for people who aren’t considered worth the investment in non-sattelite infrastructure.

    It’s just unfortunate that yeah, space junk is going to one day (suddenly) be a massive problem.

    Edit: ah I may have replied to the wrong comment


  • Screwed is always relative.

    I’m hearing chat that immigrants from places like Turkey or India are going “oh yeah this is what it’s like back home”.

    So it’s possible it just goes full neoliberal (i.e. no consequences or regulations for the rich) and the division of wealth grows even further.

    Provided he doesn’t cause a war or some kind of other mass-death problem (chemical spills, reactor meltdown etc) it might just have a cost primarily in human suffering, as opposed to human life.