Hurricane Helene - she's going to be one expensive bitch
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On a serious note, I am seriously considering getting a whole house generator. I’m most concerned about the long outage. We’ve been fortunate so far, but if you lose power for a week or more, shit gets tough.
I think they are worth it if you are in an area with a lot of trees, prone to ice storms, etc. Also if you plan to travel in retirement they provide peace of mind.
Doctor across the street from us was the first to get one in the neighborhood...to protect his wine collection. 😄
With all the money supposedly earmarked for rural internet access in the infrastrure bill, this should have already been up and running.
They're focused on charging stations right now. Rural Internet is next.
Musk has the ability to provide rural internet now. The Trump administration gave it the approval and subsidy. The Biden administration canned it because Musk! And Trump! Then they cited phony baloney to justify this mistake. Meanwhile, no rural internet at all.
FWIW, I have experience with Starlink in rural Colorado and rural Montana. It works great. Fast and reliable.
The Democrats turn everything into a political agenda item. Holding the proper political views is very important in their world.
It's too bad we don't have news sources who can point out these things.
It's incredible that a bill as large as the 'infrastructure bill' receives no follow up investigation, except by individual bloggers and the occasional columnist.
If helicopters are being grounded because of a lack of orders then we should have a public hanging.
If what he is saying is true….this is bad
That's what it sounds like. Waiting for orders. Unbelievable. If this was a black community and it was Trump in the WH he'd be impeached already.
That in no way insinuates that he was lying. I’m not there. But to answer your original question….I don’t see any reason for it to not be true.
Help me out here, and explain to me what helps you define the situation in which you are okay with the federal government giving a private business a billion dollar subsidy to promote new technology. Because some things you've said in the past would make me think you would be universally opposed to such a thing. So I'd like to know why this is different.
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The money has been approved by Congress and appropriated, Now we are talkings bout spending it. I probably would have voted against the bill for many reasons. I probably would support this kind of subsidy for rural public facilities.
You asked why this situation is different and I said why.
The problem is the pandering, politicians of all stripes do it. Politically, I get why she wanted to add in "people of color". But it isn't needed. Just about any solution that helps poor will help people of color. Sure, there are more poor Whites than Blacks, as an example. But a higher percentage of the Black population is poor. But she felt a need to give a shoutout.
It's private companies doing the work, funded by the fed gov with our tax dollars. Are you as equally concerned about which private companies are building roads and bridges?
I've seen it bandied about that at scale you could get Starlink's costs down to anywhere from $12-25 a unit. Let's say it's $50 per unit. That's still way cheaper than what they're saying it will take the other private companies to lay fiber all over the US. Fiber will probably be obsolete before they finish the project.
Why wouldn't we save the money and get it done faster to boot?
It doesn't bother me at all. But ask CO.H about federal money going to renewable energy or electric vehicles and you'll get quite the lecture. Just wondering why Musk gets a pass from him.
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