The comment I responded to brought up the First Amendment, so I think it’s relevant to correct them.

I’m not defending corporate censorship, I’m just saying it’s not a First Amendment violation.

The First Amendment means the government can’t restrict Free Speech. The Super Bowl is a private event held on private property.

As someone who uses YouTube Premium, this title piqued my interest. While lifetime would be nice, I figured it would be at least 1-2 years, which could make this phone pretty good value for me. At 3 months, I agree, I’m not sure if it’s even work activating.

I think you’re on to something.

I also think there’s a difference in where the network effect kicks in for different types of social media. IMHO, Lemmy has just enough activity to not feel empty, and even then I wish there was more comments to interact with and more niche communities. With Pixelfed, I feel like as long as there’s enough interesting posts it makes sense for people to visit regularly.

As much as I’d like to be able to swap batteries, that’s irrelevant to this issue. Even when the battery is replaced the issue persists because it’s a software issue.

TBH, that sounds even worse, and I am saying this as a fan of big government.

I assumed we were talking about US

Well, the article’s about Greenland, but I guess Ameri-centrism is par for the course.

I’m pretty sure Canada has it’s own systemic problems.

Sure, but I don’t think our donation rules are big systematic problems. Our rules don’t allow donations from foreign sources or companies, and include pretty reasonable limits for individuals (plus 75% of political donations are refunded next tax year). We have definitely had donation scandals, but they’ve almost exclusively been because people are breaking the rules.

A non-serious campaign could use those funds to enrich themselves/others even with approved activities. They could pay for staff, buy signs, etc. and all those people & businesses would make money doing legitimate work for a campaign whose only purpose was to employ those people/businesses.

Depends on which current system you mean. I’m Canadian, and while it’s not perfect, it’s a pretty good system.

The contract was for 100 million

For 15,000 connections. That’s not bad per capita (especially when you consider these are remote places).

Just give out a series of domestic research grants and build it here.

They also do that where appropriate: https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-connects-making-high-speed-internet-accessible-in-every-community

It’s a trade off of costs vs made local. You do have to be careful that a company isn’t just a reseller of foreign technology, or is just set up to absorb government grants.

There may be additional subsidies required to build the satellite network but who fucking cares - it’s an investment.

SpaceX has estimated it’s constellation is costing tens of billions of dollar. That’s from the company that already has the rockets and employs rocket scientists.

That sounds like a system that would be rife for abuse.

As much as I don’t like Musk, Starlink is a good solution to provide internet in remote areas. As long as they followed the terms of the contract, I thought it was a good value for money for the province.

That’s already the law in Canada:

Only individuals who are Canadian citizens or permanent residents can make contributions to registered parties, electoral district associations, candidates, leadership contestants and nomination contestants.

Someone has already made an issue (Repo is missing a license) so hopefully that’ll be resolved soon.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for explaining it so well!

He’s pragmatic

Really? To me, most everything he says comes off as completely impractical. I appreciate that he came up with enshittification, and some of his thoughts are great, but most of it is pie-in-the-sky thinking that could only work in some hypothetical utopia,

Wow, you weren’t lying about them “running a very old Lemmy version.” For anyone else curious, on github, the newest version is 0.19.8, released 2024-12-13. lemmy.world is on 0.19.3 released 2024-01-22.

Sure, but Norway also has decent active/public transit. So, if residents can’t afford an EV, there’s a good chance they just don’t own a car at all, and can still get around okay.

Nope, I don’t usually even see the word Mastodon written 3-4 times in a week. My best guessing this is because Meta-exodus has created a buzz around the fediverse, so I’m seeing more references to Mastodon, and those users are more likely to be new to the service.