posted by ptown_trojans_1

What part of the state do you live in?

Because, I can tell you in SE Ohio, the internet options and cell phone options are horrible. I have also been in spots in WV, KY, TN, and NC, where people have lived there for years and have zero access to internet. 

I have family members that live in their farm in NE KY that have zero options for internet. They do not chose to live there. It is their land going back to the 1800s. Why would they move? 

I find the internet expansion no different than the past federal funding to grow power lines and telephone lines. Same thing. This is just the next logical step for people in areas that do not have access to it. 

I have family and friends who live in Appalachia with no internet…

I have family and friends who treat Covid and others suffering from Covid…

I have family and friends in Washington…

I have family and friends who volunteer at voting precincts…

I have family and friends who work at Russian meat factories…

Mr. Anecdotal 

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

I have family and friends who live in Appalachia with no internet…

I have family and friends who treat Covid and others suffering from Covid…

I have family and friends in Washington…

I have family and friends who volunteer at voting precincts…

I have family and friends who work at Russian meat factories…

Mr. Anecdotal 

He's mostly right about this one, though. My in-laws live not even 2 tenths of a mile of State Route 7 in SE Ohio, and even though high speed internet is available all along route 7 and internet starts back up about 3/4 a mile past them on their road, the company refuses to join the two lines (even though every house in the dead zone has committed to getting their service). 

posted by brutus161

He's mostly right about this one, though. My in-laws live not even 2 tenths of a mile of State Route 7 in SE Ohio, and even though high speed internet is available all along route 7 and internet starts back up about 3/4 a mile past them on their road, the company refuses to join the two lines (even though every house in the dead zone has committed to getting their service). 

He probably is.  I just like to keep track of all the parts of the world he and his friends and family are intimately involved in.

posted by Dr Winston O'Boogie

I have family and friends who live in Appalachia with no internet…

I have family and friends who treat Covid and others suffering from Covid…

I have family and friends in Washington…

I have family and friends who volunteer at voting precincts…

I have family and friends who work at Russian meat factories…

Mr. Anecdotal 

This might be a better nickname than “moderate ptown,” well done.

posted by gut

Not sure which infrastructure bill it is, but I saw where $65B is allocated to bring high speed internet access to the whole country.

You have to be kidding me.  I don't know how many people have inadequate options, but I'm guessing that math works out to something more than $10k per household.  IMO, that's one of the tradeoffs to people who mostly CHOSE to live out in the sticks.

If you can send email and texts, you're good.  We don't need to spend $65B so people living out in BFE can watch Netflix.  Which, when you think about it, it does seem more like a handout to the various streaming services out there.

Didn't we already give these companies money to do this sort of thing and they just took it and didn't do shit? Or am I not remembering this correctly?

posted by brutus161

He's mostly right about this one, though. My in-laws live not even 2 tenths of a mile of State Route 7 in SE Ohio, and even though high speed internet is available all along route 7 and internet starts back up about 3/4 a mile past them on their road, the company refuses to join the two lines (even though every house in the dead zone has committed to getting their service). 

It doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong on this board if you aren’t a conservative you are automatically labeled a raging liberal and will get attacked for mostly anything you say even if it’s completely true. People in guensey county do not have relatable internet options and it’s not the sticks 

posted by geeblock

It doesn’t matter if you are right or wrong on this board if you aren’t a conservative you are automatically labeled a raging liberal and will get attacked for mostly anything you say even if it’s completely true. People in guensey county do not have relatable internet options and it’s not the sticks 

Is it the fault of taxpayers all over the nation that some people in Guernsey County chose to live there knowing they did not/might not have "relatable internet options"? 

posted by QuakerOats

Is it the fault of taxpayers all over the nation that some people in Guernsey County chose to live there knowing they did not/might not have "relatable internet options"? 

Probably not. I really wasn’t commenting for or against the issue. I was just pointing out that it is not uncommon for an area to have shitty internet or no internet 

posted by QuakerOats

Is it the fault of taxpayers all over the nation that some people in Guernsey County chose to live there knowing they did not/might not have "relatable internet options"? 

Self-proclaimed advocate of THE PEOPLE criticizing the people for "choosing" to live in areas deemed low priority by big tech in regards to a form of technology that's existed to the public for only a bit over 25 years and blown up to be an integral part of many aspects of life as those 25+ years have progressed.

Seems it'd be better to start with the big tech companies who work endlessly to improve and enhance their shit for people who live in more populated areas while taking a "let them eat cake" attitude towards people in rural areas, where the difference between having high-speed internet and an inferior version that struggles to maintain a connection to, say, the BallySports app can simply be a matter of "do you live on this road or the side road going off it".

posted by QuakerOats

Is it the fault of taxpayers all over the nation that some people in Guernsey County chose to live there knowing they did not/might not have "relatable internet options"? 

This is one of the stupidest fucking takes I have seen in a while.

posted by brutus161

This is one of the stupidest fucking takes I have seen in a while.

If you want to make his head explode, you could follow it up with "Is i the fault of taxpayers all over the nation that some people in border states chose to live there knowing that illegals might decide to cross the border near where they live?" in regards to the wall he jerked off over throughout Trump's presidency.

posted by Heretic

Self-proclaimed advocate of THE PEOPLE criticizing the people for "choosing" to live in areas deemed low priority by big tech in regards to a form of technology that's existed to the public for only a bit over 25 years and blown up to be an integral part of many aspects of life as those 25+ years have progressed.

Seems it'd be better to start with the big tech companies who work endlessly to improve and enhance their shit for people who live in more populated areas while taking a "let them eat cake" attitude towards people in rural areas, where the difference between having high-speed internet and an inferior version that struggles to maintain a connection to, say, the BallySports app can simply be a matter of "do you live on this road or the side road going off it".

You misunderstood the post (not shocking); I wasn't criticizing the people who live there; they are free to choose where to live.  My comment was directed at those who think we should simply spend billions to hook people to the internet in remote areas because, well, we should just do it.  No cost/benefit, and many of the people who chose to live in the remote areas likely don't give a shit either way.  

Hope this helps. 

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/10/weather/hurricane-larry-forecast-weekend-snow-greenland/index.html

bUt GlObAl WaRminG

The corporate media is an absolute joke. They are calling Republicans calling for mass non-compliance and fighting the feds in court a fucking uprising. 

Huh. Weird. pic.twitter.com/S17luOVWhq

— Brady has a Musket (@macarthurbrady) September 10, 2021

And in 20 years they’ve lost all credibility 

Network TV anchors were "the closest thing that America had to national leaders on 9/11. They were the moral authority for the country on that first day," especially with political leaders in bunkers or otherwise out of sight... https://t.co/j12NRPr2BM

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 11, 2021

posted by justincredible

The corporate media is an absolute joke. They are calling Republicans calling for mass non-compliance and fighting the feds in court a fucking uprising.

posted by iclfan2
Are you surprised? They white wash all of 2020 and obsess over “1/6”. Last week a lefty hoe in a gorilla mask threw an egg at Larry Elder in California. If that was Stacy Abrams we’d be hearing about systematic racism for weeks. 

Won’t starlink take care of the internet problem

posted by sportchampps

Won’t starlink take care of the internet problem

This is the future, for sure. 

LOL, Rose McGowan endorsed Larry Elder (a whole, single day before the vote - really???)....apparently because Gavin Newsom's wife tried to convince her not to go public with allegations against Weinstein.

Newsom's campaign, of course, called it untrue and a dirty election smear.

McGowan claims not to be a Republican, and I can't imagine she's not quite liberal.  Seems a little bizarre.  Maybe she didn't get invited to a party or something.

posted by gut

LOL, Rose McGowan endorsed Larry Elder (a whole, single day before the vote - really???)....apparently because Gavin Newsom's wife tried to convince her not to go public with allegations against Weinstein.

Newsom's campaign, of course, called it untrue and a dirty election smear.

McGowan claims not to be a Republican, and I can't imagine she's not quite liberal.  Seems a little bizarre.  Maybe she didn't get invited to a party or something.

They're all batshit.

The new Hunger Games movie looks wild.

You left out dumbass AOC with her “tax the rich” on her back. Where are their masks??

posted by iclfan2

You left out dumbass AOC with her “tax the rich” on her back. Where are their masks??

She and her campaign both need to be audited, because there's no way she's putting off a 7-figure job at CNN unless she has more money coming in from somewhere else.

posted by gut

She and her campaign both need to be audited, because there's no way she's putting off a 7-figure job at CNN unless she has more money coming in from somewhere else.

She either paid $30k to attend, or was gifted a $30k ticket and would owe ~$10k in taxes on it, right?