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And every mobile carrier I’ve seen in the US in my region (the Midwest) has ridiculously low data caps on 4G/5G internet service.

Sounds like a problem the free and open market will solve via the invisible hand, or some other bullshit those farmers keep crowing on about, while collecting their government welfare checks, and covered by that free government crop insurance...

That doesn’t change the fact that virtually every facet of our lives requires internet connectivity.

It also doesn't change the fact that every cancer patient deserves the best possible care, but we're not building mega cancer treatment centers, to service 2 people.

But satellites offer another option for Internet access and acting like it’s completely irrational for these folks to have it is ridiculous.

Cool. Then let the individuals there pay the full cost of the entire service, minus the subsidies. Why do we give a flying fuck about what kind of service the free and open market is providing to them?

And yes, it's completely irrational to expect all the benefits of living in civilization, while choosing to live the farthest away from civilization as possible.

If they want connectivity, let them pay for it. Full cost. They don't want to pay for liburual indoctrinations skewlz in cities that are forcing kids to become trans, well I don't want to pay for their internet access, period. Which includes all of the pollution each satellite causes.

And most rural areas are covered just fine with 5G and 4G service. The only areas completely out of range of that tech would be like, middle of BLM land.

But on that note, yes, as you move farther from civilization, you get less civilization. That's just a fact of the economic system those farmers just LOVE.

4g and 5g at home installs are pretty viable for most of the US.

If you choose to live that far outside of civilization, frankly, that's a you problem. Not something worth littering space and pur atmosphere when they burn up on re-entry.

Capitalism is not a political system,

Capitalism is an economic system, political system, and social system, all at once.

You cannot have capitalism, without the force of the state to back it. If the state doesn't exist, then people would be free to associate in other ways that they are forbidden from doing. Capitalism starts breaking people in school, when we start indoctrinating them with the religion of capitalist thinking.

Time will tell if the guardrails have completely fallen off.

They've already fallen off. In fact, they fell off right about 2008 or so.

I partially agree, but there is no real alternative to capitalism, and definitely not anything proven, the problem is not capitalism but how it is managed. In a social democracy it can work pretty well.

Chiapas is doing just fine, without capitalism. For 35+ years now. Even in the face of Mexican and US opposition to them.

had one of the best, if not the best recovery in the world

And that's really sad. The "best recovery in the world" and we're still inches away from a destitute working class, and ever-increasing wealth for the oligarchs.

From 2002 to 2010 they removed money from politics

They did? Where were all those corporate campaign dollars to them going, then?

Changing it would require a 60 senate supermajority for constitutional amendment, or 60 majority to reform the SCOTUS.

Or, a 51 majority, after getting rid of the filibuster rule... Which they refused to do, every, single, time.

Dems gave us the ACA with protections for preexisting conditions and expanded Medicaid and Chip to cover 79 Million Americans currently.

Dems gave us the Heritage Foundation health care plan, where we all HAVE to buy a private health insurance policy, and we get subsidized with tax dollars to buy a private health insurance policy.

Basically, the ACA created the conditions for Luigi!

If we gave them the 60 supermajority without caucusing independent Joe Lieberman, or maybe even with caucus for more than only 72 days, they would have given us Public Option which would be so cheap that private insurance firms couldn’t even compete at all, effectively singlepayer.

Why didn't they just get rid of the filibuster, and pass the public option then?

Dems gave us green infrastructure and forest protections, investing in solar and EVs.

I assume you mean the IRA, and that "green infra we built" is being given away to Elon for free. Forest protections? Ok, I'll give that. Investing in solar and EVs? Again, handouts to corporations.

If we had elected Dems in 2016 or 2024 they’d be writing the tax laws, too.

Weird. Why didn't the Dems do it in 1999, 2008, 2012, etc etc... You know? All those times they had a majority, and refused to use it, and instead just slid farther right to "meet in the middle" that always just moved to the right...

The Dem president Joe Biden increased the sick leave coverage for class 1 freight workers from 5% to over 90% if not 100% over the course of his term.

Don't even know what you're referring to, but I hope not the rail workers... Because only 20% of workers have sick leave coverage, and it's not even "sick leave" as they still have to call in the day before. There was a reason the majority of rail workers voted to oppose that deal, and went on strike.

And the strike, which, Biden broke. By forcing an already rejected contract. Only one set of union leaders supported the move, out of 6 unions.

There's a reason Biden, and Harris lost union support this election. Because of how anti-union they are.

If you ever expect any of that shit from Republicans, you’re an idiot.

I very much expect the GOP to hand billions to oligarchs, break labor strikes, and force people into buying a private market product... And they seem to do all of that without a 61 person majority in the senate, somehow.

She came in way behind Sanders...

The Dems weren't all that helpful when they had power...

Didn't Harris come dead last in the only dem primary for POTUS candidate that she ran in?

China is bad, because they too are a colonialism and imperialistic nation.

Just like the US and Russia.

We are blue in cities.... a lot of house support for Trump comes from those red NYS districts.

Reich wing populism is on the rise, globally.

So, he might hate Trump, but he love the Canadian version.

Zulip.

Ircv3 has reactions, and threads. Along with some other features, like persistent convos.

Voice and screen sharing can be implemented via external services.

Edited condo to convo... ircv3 does not have condos :)

Different styles of conversation.

At the owners discretion. See: on other people's properrty.

For a training set. Natural, and familiar conversations.

Depends.

On your property, using your voice? Sure.

At 2:30am, you yelling it 20ft from your neighbor's house? Probably nor, mainly as it disturbs other people's normal use of their home.

On someone else's property? Depends on if they allow it.

In public, in the commons? Sure, as long as people are allowed to ignore you.