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Lmao at lemmets being so offended here

American number 1 priority would be to get out this 2 party system with ranked voting or something.

Nah towers are incredibly cheap and can be easily maintained for decades if not centuries. Quick googling around seems like 1 modern towers costs 100k (in the west) usd compared that to entire satellite and launch overhead which seems to be at least 3.5M tho in reality much more. Thats 35 towers for 1 satellite not even considering maintenance and longevity.

Towers are also straight up superior tech that will forver be better than satellites due to simple distance physics.

Rough quick napkin math: earth's land area is 140m km² and 3g tower can cover 300km² as best - to cover THE ENTIRE EARTH we'd only need 500k towers. That's like nothing.
That's 50 Billion usd without the infrastructure and cable overhead ofc but the towers and obviously we'd want play it safer on range so 10x that and it's still only half a trillion.

Low orbit satellites are inferior tech that is only good for extreme situations like ocean coverage.

You'll never win against AI haters. Nothing is perfectly accurate and even if LLMs are less accurate than average it does not diminish the use case potential.

If someone's eats a dradly mushroom based on 1 research source then really thats just natural selection at play lol

I really dont get cable simping here on Lemmy. It's awful UX and yall can't hear the sound difference anyway lmao

nah that's just you guys americans. This suggestion is still widely considered in most places. The problem is that it turns from a temporary patch to a "solution".

Shopping mall next to me just added a parking floor for women only instead of hiring more security guards which here Thailand are incredibly cheap and honestly a real joy to have around. In the west people would say "it's a pointless job" but having someone maintain order and vibe of a place is much more effective and important than girl trains.

There are just so many of these populist examples that people have their brains hijacked by. Once you start paying attention you just can't wait for AI overlords to take over cause we're really not good at this.

I usually buy an e-sim when I'm traveling and you can get usually get 10-20$/mo unlimited data at reasonable speeds everywhere in Asia except China which is an entire different world of its own and really not worth the hassle so you take what you can get.

One exception is Thailand where I buy 1 year prepaid sim for 40$ unlimited 100mbps which you can keep extending year after year for almost the same price.

All of these prices are irrelevant without considering local salaries but cellular data is really good in Asia. I've seen cell towers deep in Vietnams jungles and was actually texting from a cave there. This is why low orbit networks like starlink are severely overrated and will always lose to cell towers.

Its so tiring of people trying to patch problems with "gendered bathrooms", "train cars only for women", "women parking lots" rather than actually solving real problems. These band aids should be a temporary solutions at best but here we are - argueing about gendered bathrooms in 2025.

The worst when people try to spin these as some sort of innovation. Especially for gendered train cars here in Japan was such a huge thing and I couldn't help but eye roll when instead of addressing perverts they just herd women into protected pens and put camera noise default on every smartphone that take 10 minutes to disable by actual criminals.

I think pedo shit is the only one he couldn't get away with so this definitely makes sense. Though, now he could say it's fake and AI and maybe even get by.

Lmao Trump is 100% Putins bitch. I wonder what Putin actually has over him cause Trump could get away with anything right? Why is he such a bitch then?

My guess is that Trump world view benefits with more dictators in power and justifies his own dictatorship goals but sucking this hard?

According to whom? Distros like omv are incredibly easy and once setup basically 100% hands off and will last you for years without any proprietary shit that might break at any point after 1 year warranty expires.

Not sure what you mean by that. Cancel culture is absolutely real and while there are cases of it overextending and being misused it's obviously a net good for our society overall. People organizing and putting pressure on injustice is what society should be all about.