About? Imagine my surprise when I logged into my WM portal to see if they picked up, and boom, full HD video of them dumping my trash into their truck, my property in full view.

Yeah. I fucking hated every minute I lived there. The only positive is the outdoors, but that too is slowly being polluted and dismantled. Stay strong, I believe that you’ll get out of there at some point if that’s what you desire.

Could be some shit like “Iran interfered to get Biden elected”

an Osman classic

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The board is chaired by Trump (and I’m pretty sure Trump appointed his yes-men as well)

I also don’t drink, but I bought some liquor just for occasions like this.

Fuck Catholic hospitals. They’re intentionally hard to avoid, and the care is always fucked. I say this as someone who unfortunately had to get two surgeries in a Catholic hospital. This was right after they were caught not caring about the literally oozing and damaged beds in the labor and delivery unit.

No joke: https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/least-its-kind-gross-mattresses-tacoma-hospital-oozing-fluids/JBNFDKLBPNHNFHGYMYG3RQ7EC4/

The only way a noncitizen could vote in WA state is if they literally steal or forge a ballot of a citizen. To register to vote, you already have to prove citizenship.

I know that’s not the point of what the DOJ is doing, but just had to say it.

Either I’m misunderstanding their comment or you are. To me, “it” meant the temperature (40°C), which they very much do get. This is why they mentioned A/C, right?

Public utility district (although sometimes “people’s utility district”). Used for utilities like water lines, sewer lines, and fiber. Typically the cost is paid by a group of neighbors, an entire neighborhood, or it can be county wide as well. Usually also subsidized by the county, state, or federal government to help reduce cost.

Starlink will enshittify like all other non-PUD ISPs. This article shows that, and it’s already begun to struggle with throughput and scaling it is becoming more and more of a challenge.

There is one alternative that has been shown to be better than anything else: PUD projects which treat internet access as a utility and not something to make more and more money off of. The FCC has rural grants for ISPs that serve rural areas, but instead of exclusively funding PUD projects, they keep giving money to big for-profit ISPs (like Starlink).

Starlink should be considered a band-aid and only something that you’d need when you were in a super rural area without other utilities. The solution is giving everyone with grid connections public fiber via PUDs.

I know we don’t live in a utopia where that will happen overnight, and we don’t have an FCC that gives a shit. But the FCC should not be giving a trillionaire taxpayer dollars for a half-baked, polluting, wasteful service that will ultimately do the same rugpull that other private ISPs have done.

Yes, but then he realized that showing his whole ass before his presidential campaign/election was a bad strategy. He’s in damage control mode. If elected, I’m sure he’ll flip back to not wanting it again.