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1 month agoA healthy, broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need everyone to be sick, stupid, and scared.
A healthy, broadly educated population is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need everyone to be sick, stupid, and scared.
Wireless data transmission should only ever be used for nomadic, temporary, and/or sacrificial links.
They’re useful for quick deployment, but are intrinsically brittle and terrible for resiliency and efficiency.
The longer the dependence on them for a given use case, the less defensible arguments in support of them become.
I’m all for the use of satellite delivery of internet services, but only when it’s used in conjunction with a broader roll out of hardwired infrastructure, at which point it can reasonably be relegated to serving as a secondary, backup diverse path.