It means there is no future in centrism. The living armadillos choose a side. Those that dither will be hit by cars. On United States roads, yellow lines signify lane divisions between cars traveling in opposite directions.

Apparently it's a book title of the same name. "A book of political subversion"

There's nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos Book by Jim Hightower

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You think you're the only countries that want a shot?

Kumbaya with the s'mores and the world peace. Invite everybody!

You mean the gold spraypainted wall sconces?

I don't think that will be the moment that america starts caring about releasing toxic fumes by burning paint

There's also the cost of relaunching satellites once they run out of fuel. The maintenance cost is also higher compared to fiber.

Starlink should have been a global effort, so that we didn't end up with dozens of private companies all vying to put thousands of satellites into orbit.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/starlink-astronomers-light-pollution-standoff-120000884.html?guccounter=1

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_debris

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome

I disagree that we should haphazardly be putting more stuff into space than needed... when we have alternatives...

Just because we can doesn't mean we should...

Posting from my fiber-to-the-home connection in rural bumfuck Japan presently for no particular reason.

If you live somewhere that has electricity coming from the energy grid then by default should also have Internet coming to your house as well. By defining the internet as a utility and treating it like one you would get more funding to build out the network. Something similar happened with phone lines way back in the day if I'm not mistaken.

https://www.ntia.gov/funding-programs/high-speed-internet-programs/broadband-equity-access-and-deployment-bead-program

There is a lot of controversy around this ... and recently trump changed it to allow things like starlink... make of that what you will

Proper infrastructure development to bring them fiber?

It seems like logically, we should feel lucky to have such an incompetent campy comic book villain con man as the face of their ridiculous movement. But it doesn't feel like that at the time.

With all the nonsense about "fiscal conservatives", people forget that the last administration to balance the budget was Clinton/Gore - and not only was the budget balanced, it actually had a fucking surplus. One of the big debate points going into the 2000 election cycle was what to do with this surplus. Naturally enough the surplus went towards tax cuts for the rich and now we're fucking $35 trillion dollars in debt.

Someone will weigh in here with "deficits don't matter" and "the government can just print money if it needs it".

"If we counted Gore's win"

I’ve always said this was the start of our descend into the hellscape that we’re currently stewing in. Having Gore's president, would have gotten strong internet/telecoms and environmental guardrails/legislation passed. At a time when we really needed to start addressing those things. Amongst many other things..

5 SCOTUS fucktards are responsible for where we are today. that’s my take at least.

But that could have gotten us President Palin.

Its also a reaction to the Hope and Change candidate bailing out the banks who just stole millions of homes, bombed a dozen countries, sending the natl guard to shut down protests in furgison, both-sides a cop arresting a man in his own yard, deporting more people than W or Trump, giving us means-tested subsidies for health insurance.

Obama disillusioned a generation with politics, hence why so many people stayed home in 2016. Biden did the same shit, and Newsom will do it again if given a chance.

They should still do it and bring the country to a standstill if necessary. If extreme measures aren't applicable now, when will they be? It'll cause some short term pain, but it'll get everyone out in the streets.

The person who posted the tweet in this post who suggested cutting funding was a Republican and now is a independent

Founding Fathers, 1776: Democracy is worth fighting and dying for! We must water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants. We must risk our fortunes and our lives so that our children can live in freedom.

Democrats, 2025: Trump is a dictator destroying democracy, but we can't risk temporarily shutting down government transfer payments in order to stop him.

my understanding was that biden did extend it for a further year. trump actively cancelled that.

it wasnt just him letting it lapse, it was a move of spite

To be more accurate, he actively cancelled an extension granted by a previous executive order.

Thank you

I’m surprised by the 6 months thing