Consumers typically have a choice between cable, DSL, fiber, WISP, satellite, dial-up,
Your dial up provider does not have an end to end connection. Tier 1 isps sit in-between all traffic. It doesn't matter what dial up/cable/DSL provider you switch to because they all route through the same tier 1 providers.
Your suggestion to don't use the Internet was refuted at the very start when I explained that some government services, in particular schools, require internet for communication.
No Lemmy throttling is falling below 56k.
Lemmy isn't throttled because no one is paying them to do so. They can now legally throttle it below 56k. Physics has absolutely nothing to do with it.
If the electric company shuts off your electricity, the physics of your led light bulbs using less energy means nothing.
Why would think otherwise?
Because up until now you argued the opposite.
When event trash is concentrated, one man’s shovel load does the work of 50 people scattered around the city.
Irrelevant to your original argument that there was no effect. Which is besides the point because you already gave up arguing that your library use wouldn't affect everyone of everyone did it. -Which doesn't make it an option given that Internet is required by some government agencies such as schools.