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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • So not just a civilian, but a US military veteran who earned his citizenship via service to the country. I’d argue if they want to try and make different levels, since that’s clearly what they’re trying to do, that he’s more an American citizen than anyone that happened to be born here, especially more than any of the current Administration.

    Also, how much you want to bet they’re checking every piece of paper in his immigration file to see if a signature or date was missed. Serving earns you citizenship, but it is not automatic. You still have to fill out the paperwork, and that leaves open the possibility of errors. We already have stories of people who have been deported because they don’t care about fixing paperwork errors caused by Immigration staff if it gives them an excuse to get rid of someone.




  • Keyboard, mouse, track pad, track point, all of them have limits. Sometimes just touching what you want to do is more convenient. And if you don’t want to use it, then you can ignore it with no adverse effect. It isn’t something that’s in the way or prevents you from using other input methods.

    And at this point the technology is so cheap there’s no reason not to include it. Well unless your company’s entire profit structure is based on charging exorbitant amounts for minor upgrades and making the lowest cost option almost always have some sort of glaring deficiency to try to push users to pay hundreds more than they need to for the “optional” upgrades that should have just been included and cost pennies on the dollar for the company. Then using your cult like user base to gaslight each other and outsiders into believing they don’t actually want something you don’t provide.






  • Adding additional backup communication methods is a good thing. Your home might be fine with one connection, but large businesses often have 2 or more separate physical connections for redundancy. I’m sure places like the White House effectively have as many as they can. One of the worst things for the White House is to be disconnected from communication with the outside world.

    This clearly wasn’t intended for that purpose, but I’m sure that’s at least partially how they sold it to get it done quickly get it installed now for DOGE use and it can be added to those systems later, additional ongoing revenue as well.


  • Not sure that’s gonna happen anytime soon, if ever. Elon made himself the face of the company,without exception and his foray into fascist politics turned away many of the most diehard Tesla supporters. The ones that had been around because of things like the environmental goals and shift away from fossil fuels despite some of his previous statements.

    But now there are other viable options available on the market, and within a couple years most of the hold outs from legacy auto are finally entering the market with interesting options. Supporting Tesla directly now means supporting a clearly and openly out fascist company leader. There will be some supporters that stick around, and some will come because of that, but for many the two are completely inseparable.



  • Starlink provides service to areas where fiber is impossible. Like the middle of the ocean and actual rural areas where fiber runs could be tens of miles or more between homes. Those are area where no one will build out fiber unless the homeowner is paying for it themselves, the various government programs would never cover those actual rural areas despite what they claim. At best they might cover city outskirts for new infrastructure, where fiber nodes are already relatively close by. They’re never adding fiber to existing rural farms and ranches.

    They are not a 1:1 service comparison. You would need to compare It to other satellite providers, and there isn’t a comparison because all of those are dogshit in comparison to Starlink.

    There’s a reason it’s as popular as it is so quickly despite satellite internet in general not being new. The low earth satellite constellation means a massive difference in capability compared to conventional geostationary satellites. Multiple second latency, slow downloads nowhere near advertised double digit Mbps speeds, single digit Mbps upload speeds and often monthly data limits as low as 50GB per month are what the conventional satellite providers offer.


  • I’m not making any sort of excuse and nothing in my comment came close to that. You should check your reading comprehension skills, because they’re clearly lacking.

    I haven’t seen anyone write up a breakdown of what the fuck the actual agreement with countries like El Salvador looks like. Just some general numbers back at the beginning about some costs. No breakdown of whether the payments are based on the number of people, a general monthly cost for everything regardless of occupancy, something on a per-person level, time limits for holding specific individuals, etc.

    No information on whether it’s purposely intended to be one way or not. You honestly think this Administration put in any sort of provisions for getting people back, or would they specifically word it as a one way deal? Something like we send you people and pay you $x per month, y minimum time, etc. and we never see them again.

    Whether the prisons are considered US territory while occupied for this purpose, whether any US law enforcement has any jurisdiction, etc. You know, the types of things that normally are setup well before anything it built.

    The entire purpose of these places seems to get the people out of the US and promptly forget about them, they don’t need to actually deport them correctly if you just get them off US land and hand them to El Salvador or whatever other nation to do whatever they want with them. With that goal it seems entirely possible that whatever the fascists wrote up for an agreement doesn’t have any provisions for getting people back, or might even have penalty fees for returning people because they never intended to do that.

    There’s some sort of a reason why we’re seeing some people be retrieved from some places like Mexico and no returns from places like El Salvador. What is the difference?