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Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies::The FCC reaffirmed a decision not to award Starlink a nearly $900 million subsidy for offering 100Mbps/20Mbps low-latency internet service in 35 states.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (14 children)

There's also a bunch who have never left the city, and have no comprehension of just how remote some communities are.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (8 children)

who have never left the city

Weird seeing this as a country-fried liberal. City people seem to have no comprehension of the issues facing us. And when confronting them about it, "Fuck all you conservative rednecks! You get what you deserve!"

And yet they have no idea why the countryside hates them and votes Trump. Self-defeating to say the least. Which is what they say of us! Rinse and repeat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

Yep. You'll see it here on Lemmy all the time. I've been told I should sell my car and bike to work 15miles down a road that has no sidewalk, no shoulder, and a speed limit of 60mph. If I don't like that then I can walk the 17miles and take a bus inside the city - doesn't matter where - none of them go to or from where I'm going.

Fuck FuckCars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

This only really happens when fuckcars posts show up on /all IMO, where some of the more extreme opinion holders are more vocal.

Fuck cars means fuck car dependency, i.e. places designed specifically for cars: no sidewalks, no bus, no train, no safe bicycle or light motorized assistive vehicle infrastructure available - you need a car for everything, or stay trapped at home.

It doesn't mean fuck cars literally.

It's pretty well known that rural areas, by design, require cars and motorbikes to travel out of them - a train is ideal, but good luck convincing anyone to finance that kind of project. A bicycle could work well for moving around town though depending on how safe it is, saving some wear and tear from your vehicle

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