I don’t think anybody is pro-abortion. I think that term muddied the waters quite a bit. It implies the whole “abortion as a form of primary birth control” talking point that the zealots like to point at as if it’s a common case.

I for sure won’t say those people are “pro-life”. Far from it. If anything fits anyone better, it’s calling them “anti-choice”.

Why should I change? They’re the ones who suck.

If you turn your head, the letters OGC look like a man with his legs bowed out, jerking off.

That’s what I’ll think of whenever I hear this name. A bunch of jerk-offs circle-jerking.

Gaslighting is old-hat man.

Nowadays it’s kitchen-faucet-lighting.

Really curious what ever came of the 4chan breach.

My pet conspiracy theory is that 4chan was used for psyops…manipulating teenagers/20-somethings, breeding the whole incel/mens rights shit, and using it as a megaphone for Trump…and the admins were in on it.

As others have said, highly location dependent.

I switched from Xfinity to T-Mobile 4 years ago because tmobiles speed (raw speed) blew Xfinity out of the water…especially for upload. Latency and jitter suffered a bit but not enough to greatly effect voice calls. It didn’t help my online gaming skills, but likely would’ve if I were a higher-caliber gamer. For me, the latency between chair and gamepad was much more impactful.

However Xfinity did some upgrades in my area and the roles have reversed so I’m back to Xfinity. Tmo is still absolutely usable, but Xfinity now offering 250mbps upload makes my mouth water.

In 1940s Germany, SS takes you.

In Soviet America, SS leaves you.

What a country!

Nuke it?

Yep. That’s what the selfish ones have been telling us for thousands of years.

If they aren’t divorced they are probably crazy.

Target the divorced MILFs. That’s your best bet. This also applies if you’re a cis-het woman.

Well if humans could run on coal it would be a valid argument…

Not buying another modem when the ISP quietly upgrades the CMTS and makes more speed available in your neighborhood.

Nah wifi was actually originally on 5GHz spectrum, with 802.11a. It came out shortly before 802.11b, which used 2.4GHz, and was objectively better…but component shortages for 802.11a devices made the inferior 802.11b more successful on the market.

Then in 2009, after 802.11b and 802.11g came 802.11n, which used the 5GHz spectrum, and introduced dual-band routers to consumers.

Most recently, 6GHz got allocated with the advent of Wifi 6E and Wifi 7.

This exactly. Wifi is damn near unusable in dense residential settings. It’ll cut it for streaming and web browsing, but much more than that and you’ll feel the pain of interference from all the other wifi APs in the area.

Especially with most of them defaulting to 80MHz on 5GHz and many of those defaulting away from UNII-2. which leaves 4 non-overlapping channels (with one of them giving trouble with a lot of devices). We’re right back to where we were in 2.4. Even worse, I think, since wifi is more ubiquitous.

Isn’t that the plan?

“cheap” is a relative term.

Nobody should be buying a DOCSIS 3.0 modem these days. They are obsolete and for some reason still being sold.

A decent DOCSIS 3.1 modem is at least $200. A Next Gen like S34 is at least $220. At least at the big blue big box store. And then you have to get your own wifi.

(However, that big blue store also will give you a 15% discount on any networking purchase if you recycle an old network device…I traded in an old modem but you should be able to find a switch or router at a thrift store and still come out ahead)

It pays for itself pretty quick (by not paying rental fees), but that doesn’t necessarily make it cheap.

I absolutely prefer using my own equipment, and do…but it’s also worth mentioning that in many markets, Xfinity removed data caps if you have a rented modem.

Yeah I got a USB wifi dongle that’s a bit tricky. It doesn’t work out of the box in most distros but there is drivers for it that do work, fairly well.

Anybody ever get Winmodems to work or did they all give up on it?

Back in the day, it was hard enough getting dialup internet working on Linux (especially before you had internet in your pocket, so you had to print out HowTos or write down a bunch of notes before you tried to do it).

But it was downright impossible with a class of modems that was designed essentially as a softmodem, heavily reliant on closed-source firmware and drivers, making them practically impossible to work on Linux.

Sure that’s great if a rich dude wants to set up a trust and run a theater or a museum or whatever after they die.

But the problem comes in when you have an NFP running a museum that’s beholden to one or two key benefactors who want to decide everything, and they gotta listen or else there’s no more money.

Libertarian types tell you all the time that this is what philanthropy is for.

No. No this is not what philanthropy is for, because the philanthropist can pull the plug anytime they want.

And charities can decide who to help. That’s probably the worst of it, and what makes libertarianism a thinly-veiled disguise for racism, or at the very least a caste system.

I think that wouldn’t work unless the mine is perfectly sealed.

The pulp would still get eaten and digested microorganisms and carbon released to air.

Plus there would be a ton of wasted carbon on harvest, pulpifying, transport…unless those are all done with green energy.

The reason why we have fossil fuels is because of the carbon that didn’t get released to the atmosphere. It got trapped in a hypoxic water/swamps where bacteria and microorganisms couldn’t decompose it.

We could build hypoxic lakes for disposal of large chunks of “organic” (as in alive) carbon to be sequestered…but it couldn’t be done at a scale to even begin to touch what we’ve released. Maybe if we gmod some bacteria or plankton to chew it up and poop it up real fast. And put all the carbon we can find into the pit.