Not The Onion

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago (12 children)

The entire e administration as well as ice should be put into camps after this is said and done.

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[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 53 points 3 months ago (7 children)

I prefer high security jail, and trials to make Nuremberg blush.

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago (2 children)

No socialism for fascists. They like the death penalty so much, I say 'oblige them', in no sweeter terms.

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[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 17 points 3 months ago

We really did not execute enough at Nuremberg. I agree that prison would be a waste with such crimes.

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[–] Zahille7@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

They keep unironically saying it's "open season" of Dems and liberals, so I say let's flip it the fuck around.

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[–] Mirshe@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I have bad news for how the Nuremberg trials generally wound up.

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[–] iltoroargento@startrek.website 3 points 3 months ago

Agreed. We gotta do better this time.

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[–] Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Have we not wasted enough resources on them? Put them to good use and bury them. Let's focus on rebuilding.

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[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Idk man, I'm more inclined to enslave them until they pay off their debt.

What is it, now? 5k per American person? Seems like a life in slavery is proper reparations.

Edit: and that's only discussing what they owe Americans.

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Honestly. Send them all to antarctica.

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[–] gh0stcassette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Put them all on a spacex starship (for maximum irony) and fly it into the sun. Livestream the entire months-long journey to the sun so we can watch them slowly go insane and turn against each other. 70% odds they don't even make it all the way to the sun😭

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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

I've long advocated for a reality tv show where we send the richest assholes in society into a 1 way rocket trip to the sun.

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 point 3 months ago

That'll drive the flerfs wild!

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 79 points 3 months ago (33 children)

My ISP every few months:

"We can upgrade yo-

Does the upload speed upgrade too?

"Well, no- click

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[–] undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch 24 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

My favorite is Spectum’s “Gig” (I guess too many people can’t pronounce 1 Gbps) plan is like, significantly slower than their 600 Mbps or even their 400 Mbps like 80% of the time.

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[–] moondoggie@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago

One guhbips

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Giga is the Spanish word, so they might just use it because it's more bilingual friendly

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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I doubt it has anything to do with Spanish. The G in Gbps stands for giga because that's the SI prefix for 10 to the power of 9 or 1000 bigger than mega. Calling it a gig is just a lazy wording.

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[–] Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

I call it gig, it's a pretty common abbreviation IMO, like 32 gigs of ram.

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[–] Adalast@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I had AT&T Gigabit symmetric fiber once and it was glorious.

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[–] LaunchesKayaks@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

I just switched ISPs because the one I had never gave me the speed I was paying out the ass for and had constant outages. I switched and became the first house in my street with fiber. Now everyone is getting it. My bill is also $50 less than it was before. Only upsides. I think the deals are so good because my new ISP used to be terrible until the company got bought out and renamed. Now they're the best around me by far.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (25 children)

Well they makes me curious what the "upgrade" entails. 🤔 Have they ever told you?

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[+] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 months ago (24 children)

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[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 23 points 3 months ago* (4 children)

10 Mbps up in the year of our lord 2026?..
I swear to god, I'm not convinced the US is a first-world country.

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 18 points 3 months ago

I'm not convinced the US is a first-world country.

Neither are we

~ Americans

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

Wut. Corporate monopolies of shitty cable companies maximizing personal profit at the expense of clients is like the most capitalistic thing you could have.

2nd world countries would be much more capable of providing good internet service.

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[–] mrmisses@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

It's not.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago

I have an el cheapo connection and i checked my SOs connection today, 0.6/0.33 Gb.

On wifi...

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[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Not to defend spectrum, but there is an actual reason for this besides malice.

Coax cable internet uses analog switching and routing between you and your ISPs first Ethernet hop. It's basically a series of unconfigurable hardware low-pass and high-pass filters to ensure that upload traffic and download traffic flow cleanly.

When cable internet started and these systems were installed in your neighborhood, a range of low-frequency (low-bandwidth) channels were selected for uploads, and a range of high-frequency (high-bandwidth) channels were selected for downloads, going off the assumption that more people wanted downloads than anything else.

Fast-forward to today, and the ISPs don't really have any choice but to sell you the asymmetry that they installed 20-30 years ago. The only way to redirect the flow and assignment of channels would be to rip out and replace all of those analog filters, and they're not going to do that because grandma isn't going to go without cable for 3 weeks. Grandma will call, get angry, and pick a new cable provider. Grandma is by far their most consistent and profitable customer.

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[–] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

ISPs don’t really have any choice but to sell you the asymmetry that they installed 20-30 years ago.

I think there is actually a choice in there somewhere.

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[–] Goodeye8@piefed.social 4 points 3 months ago

And in case it needs to be spelled out, it's upgrading the infra to offer better speeds. But they have no incentive to do so because that benefits only the customer.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

They just run a new fiber line to every customer that says "I need symmetric speeds, please".

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If you're willing to pay they probably will, but it's something that's generally very expensive, so not something they advertise. If you're serious about it, look into business offerings.

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[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

Paying the ISP to run a new fiber cable yourself is 10-50k.

The ISP can do this at a better price if they do a neighborhood all at once due to economies of scale.

The US government already paid the ISP to run fiber in like the 90s. They should give the money back with interest or lay the fucking fiber

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[–] angband@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Many of them laid the fiber but were only required to use it for phone service. Since their infrastructure was all filled and paid for, and financial assistance only covered replacing cable phone systems, many cable systems have run dual backbones for a long time now.

Also, many smaller cable ISPs interface to att or sprint, or similar. So they also weren't paid to increase their backbone access.

Sucks, I had fiber to my building for more than a decade before I was offered (forced) to move it, bumping me from 1mbps to 20 for a 15 dollar/month increase because "they can".

At least I get what I pay for, I hear some don't.

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[–] cynar@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I changed provider after they tried to tell me 1/4 Mbps was more than enough. It didn't even have packet shaping. As soon as Google photos tried to back up, the packet returns required to lead webpages started falling over. It was painful.

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 points 3 months ago

Wait, wouldn't you want 9 more down then? Who wants asymmetric speeds with faster upload than down?

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[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

I remember how happy I was when I got 50mb upload... About 20 years ago?

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[+] victorz@lemmy.world -7 points 3 months ago (8 children)

I'm sorry, I didn't understand any of that. 😬

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[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 3 months ago (7 children)

Download - data go beep boop from someone else's computer to yours
Upload - data go beep beep from your computer to someone else

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (6 children)

lmao I know, I'm a web developer by profession. 😆

Faster download it's always faster download and never understand any circumstances upload.

But what the fuck does this sentence mean?

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

I thought you webdevs were good with implied semicolons because of JavaScript lol

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Hey-ooh! 🥁

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[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

Missing punctuation, add , or : after "Faster download" to fix the syntax error

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

and never understand any circumstances upload.

I guess this part should substitute understand for just "under"?

Man, some real sloppy proof reading. 😆

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[–] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

I have only now noticed that. Autocorrect in my head ig.

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[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 3 months ago

Took a while for me too, so 😄

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[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 77 points 3 months ago

Fuck any internet provider that hides fucking fees. If my bill suddenly goes up next month I know exactly what caused it and will act accordingly by not paying that bullshit fees.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

Again, if they have the technology to correctly bill you for those fees, they have the technology to tell you what they are before they bill you for them. It's the same damn thing.

[–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Putting in the "fuck you" charge internally is easy.

Coming up with a convincing name on the bill is hard.

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Internet in America has always been a ripoff.

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[–] raman_klogius@ani.social 9 points 3 months ago

But... The efficiency of consolidation!! /$

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[–] huquad@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Especially when you consider how many subsidies the telecoms get

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[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 3 months ago

What would you expect in a 1st world country?

Gotta nationalize public utilities for that to be decent.

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[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 3 months ago

Yeah it's not even funny to taunt you any more. I mean in like 2014 sure, but today it's more sad.

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[–] Trampampoline@sh.itjust.works 34 points 3 months ago*

Looks like I'm aiming pringles can directional antennas at McDonalds again like the 00's.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 months ago

I can't really blame them. Counting all of that profit money takes a whole shitload of time and leaves very little room for value.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago*

This kind of shit is why the CFPB was and very much IS needed!

And also a classic case of regulatory capture, of course.

[–] Sophocles@infosec.pub 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

If you ever get tired of ISP garbage, Calyx offers unlimited internet as long as you are in 4G/5G range. Your payment also goes to supporting a privacy rights group instead of down the corporate drain

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 7 points 3 months ago

This is actually pretty neat.

The case, settled ten years after it was filed, influenced how the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) can acquire personal information. Inspired by this, Merrill founded the Calyx Institute, a 501(c)(3) organization, to raise awareness about online privacy, surveillance, and accessibility through software development, research advocacy, and cross-sector partnerships.

https://calyx.org/about

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[–] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

long nightmare

That's just US of Corpokistan chasing EU...

[–] Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hey, that doesn't make any sense! In 2024, lemmy.ml assured us all that Biden hadn't made any improvements to America!

[–] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

And Hexbear was singing Trump's praises. Let's all remember this fact: Tankies love Trump and hate Democrats, even if sometimes they claim otherwise that's just them putting the mask on.

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[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 2 points 3 months ago

Hating Democrats (the establishment at least) is justified, but yes, tankies love Trump.