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The year is 1788, and we are all French peasants…

Straight up theft. In a more functional government, there would be an agency with real teeth that you could report them to for that kind of behavior, with something other than fines-as-the-cost-of-doing-business.

“Capitalism breeds innovation”

You’re killing me, Smalls

What’s wrong with your kids?

*shitheel

The self-selection of Lemmy vs Reddit users is an inherently stratifying medium. Lemmy is also distinctly left-leaning in a way that Reddit is not.

Having experienced several waves of Reddit absorbing Facebook exoduses, and the subsequent worsening of experience, I can only infer the same pattern will exist in Reddit slop migrating to Lemmy.

If anything, I’d prefer that entire crowd return to Facebook to bloviate their opinions and Boomerisms ad naseum.

Choosing a server is the bridge too far?

That’s fine, keep the reddit people on reddit.

MBAs are like surgeons; their every solution is to cut.

Now ask it whether Taiwan is a country.

“There are piles of poo just waiting to match with YOU! Only $14.99/week!”

Which is a long way to say that Google exists as a prime failure of the government’s onus to regulate businesses. Google should never have been allowed to creep its tentacles into so many facets of life.

Just as with most technology, the Feds have been turning a blind eye, and pocketing cash while tech robber barons privatized existence.

My test search for the UPS store up the street sent me 4km away. So…not great.

Governments and corporations still use the same playbooks because they’re still oversaturated with Boomers who haven’t learned a lick since 1987.

To muddy the waters of any real Corporate capabilities while leadership reaps the benefits of capital investments

Dems remove Corporate phallus from mouth

“Why don’t you plebes appreciate us?”

Polite society stopped allowing for said types to receive a hearty fist to the face, which seems to have historically been the prescribed course of action

100%

They only take action to punch down any potential actual left-leaning candidates, ensuring no progressive representation ever gathers power stations.

*superficially desirable

They have physical locations and extant real estate across the entire US.

So, rather than continuing to give billions to private ISPs that do literally nothing with that money, and who double-down to curtail services whenever mildly inconvenient, my suggestion is that we (ie US Government) does not provide a single additional dollar in funding or subsidies, and instead invests that money in building itself a USG internet UTILITY. If necessary, clawback the billions that have gone to Comcast, ATT, Verizon et al, or just seize their networks and charge their executives with RICO and fraud. They essentially operate as a cartel anyway.