I wish it weren’t so. Kindness is often just a choice.

I’m sorry you were molested but you cannot expect strangers to refrain from playing with each other to respect triggers they don’t even know exist. I know it sucks, I know it can even feel like physical pain. But they are not psychic and while we did not ask for trauma, it is our responsibility at the end of the day, not theirs. They’re just having fun and they should be able to do that.

Yeah, I’m really loving having only semi control.

Oh that’s been my new favorite tactic. I said you’d get research and a vote. I didn’t say it would be enacted or that we would build that…

That group was probably socialized to humans somehow then. Wild deer, elk, and moose do not take kindly to humans getting too close.

No it’s they shouldn’t expect the same services as even small towns. These are thousand person affairs on or above the Arctic Circle.

The problem is I’ve done online classes and you’re just full of shit.

Where the fuck did anyone say that? Is this the next level? After the kids?

Go look at pictures of Nairobi and tell me seriously you think they don’t have broadband Internet.

I’m sorry. I didn’t realize learning online was restricted to VOIP. That’s usually solved by just making teachers available there.

But I am going there with you because you started with remote workers and went to “but the kids!” When you realized you were wrong.

Oh that’s super broken on my app. I’ll make sure to switch to the website if I want to do spoilers in the future.

He’s switched from remote workers to kids. He’s just trying to gin up outrage now.

Geosync Satellite Internet works fine for learning, they still have school and libraries. Geosync has worked for decades, so the question isn’t should we screw them over. It’s should we upgrade, given the price?

There’s plenty of other ways to bring services to these very remote areas and raise their standard of living. Just because one thing is held back does not mean nobody cares about them. It means we’re being responsible with our resources and environment.

And it’s especially important to question these things whenever people start talking about, “for the kids!”

Remote tech workers aren’t living in a place without broadband, and I seriously doubt they’re moving to villages so remote they get supply planes, as weather allows. And yes the area includes the Arctic Circle. Remote workers are living in a medium sized town with a fiber backbone connection because their job already depends on it. They aren’t pining away at Cambridge Bay wishing someone would give them broadband internet.

Large areas of the world are fine without broadband internet. Especially when the method of delivery is to smother LEO with disposable satellites. Trying to extend the western standard of living to every corner of the world instead of ameliorating the standard is a major driver of climate change. Some things just don’t work in remote areas.

Nobody claimed it’s broadband. And nobody claimed they need broadband up there. Nobody is trying to remote into their tech job from the Arctic Circle.

Take your straw men home.

It’s really just to illustrate why no one should be trusting Elon. He did that exact thing to Ukraine when they tried to counter attack early on.

The problem occurs in 2030 when Elon decides that only Russian settlers in the North can get satellite Internet because the Canadians might use it offensively in their war, against Russian settlers in Canada.

Geosync has been working for decades. Try again.

Don’t worry next we’re going to solve the non-existent problem of metal scarcity by dragging the ocean floor. Even though it will obliterate entire ecosystems built around the nodules we’re going to mine. All so a billionaire can become a multi billionaire.

Multiple countries claim jurisdiction over their LEO area, especially for launching stuff from their country.

There’s vanishingly few places where the use of the word female is correct. The test is generally if the word male would also be correct and not weird there. If the speaker is talking about men and females then we have a problem.

There’s also a couple exceptions where the misogynist language got assimilated but it’s so normal that you can’t tell just by their use of the word. Like the military talking about female soldiers. For example there is a need to distinguish between male and female body armor. But also they talk about the needs of soldiers and female soldiers without a hint of disparagement. It’s just how they make it clear there needs to be a second latrine ditch and the camp shower needs to have at least canvas walls. The only fix most of us can see for this is persistently referring to men as male soldiers too because women soldiers sounds weird and doesn’t solve the problem of default soldier vs qualifier soldier.