• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    Rural voters overwhelmingly voted for this. I have no sympathy. I’m downloading shit fast as fuck. And I’m using my symetric fiber to seed 24/7 the following torrents: CDC data removed from gov websites, data leak from Patriot Front (a local fascist movement in USA), and war crimes committed by IDF in Gaza. Plus a lot of porn.

    Cheers, shitbags! You got what you voted for.

    • unphazed@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Frontier trounced all over Xfinity here because of this program. I now have fiber vs 300mbps (400 plan). So many blue dots around WV but the koolaid is in the water.

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          2 months ago

          Frontier new kid in town, big company out money as people switch. Faster internet. Republicans dominate the state but not everyone is mindless and few leftists/centrists dot the state.

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            2 months ago

            Which big companies lose money? Frontier or other companies?
            People switch where? To frontier or away from frontier?
            Who has faster internet? Frontier or frontier competitors?

            What does it matter that there are leftists and centrists in the state? How does this have anything to do with the comment u writing about?

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        2 months ago

        Well, I’m honestly not convinced they don’t. I mean, with renewables popping everywhere and providing a surplus of clean renewable non-geopolitical electricity, why would you pursue nuclear for the energy? You don’t even need to build an actual nuclear explosive, you could just make endless dirty bombs.

        Iran could cover itself in solar and wind and there you go. They’d have all the electricity they need, could probably build most of the shit themselves too, and have not just plausible, but total, nuclear deniability.

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    2 months ago

    Even a town I used to live in with Donald voters, more than half the town couldn’t get speed over 5 Mbps - they had to use Satellite. And the other half? We had over 800 Mbps. 2 years after Covid, the other town finally has it. Ridiculous.

  • mctoasterson@reddthat.com
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    2 months ago

    To be fair, this federal program was a cluster eff since they started it in about 2010. It passed a bunch of grant money through to the states, which all did different “things” with it. Most held semi-public meetings and planning sessions for 5-10 years or wrote detailed planning documents but never delivered any physical infrastructure (actual results to the residents).