Is #Starlink designed to provide only a small number of users satellite internet at a steep premium? Yes.
Is #Starlink making a mess of low orbit and the upper atmosphere? Yes.
Is #Starlink incompetently designed and being hacked by organized crime? Also yes.
QT UNODC
"Despite Starlink use being strictly monitored and, in some cases, restricted through geofencing, organized crime groups appear to have found ways around existing security protocols"
https://www.unodc.org/roseap/uploads/documents/Publications/2024/TOC_Convergence_Report_2024.pdf
Do I often have negative takes?
Yes.
Is toxic positivity real?
Also yes.
@lzg
Sigh. Yes.
Is there anything so fundamentally unserious as being utterly devoid of playfulness?
Look.
Are things bad? Yes.
Could they be worse? Yes.
Is this post pointless? Yes.
Is there a 3 letter word for a positive affirmation? Yes.
Was this post a distraction to get your mind out of it's doom spiral? Yes.
Was I wrong about this post being pointless? Also yes.
It's nice to be right sometimes.
Dave mentions some typical improvements that can be made to a stroad like this, given the political constraints.
The end result of this kind of redesign looks something like this photo.
This is Wonderland Road in Fake London.
Is this better than the stroad in the post above? Yes.
Is it good? Absolutely not.
And the problem is, streets and roads are only redesigned about every 30 years.
So this is it. This is all you're getting for at least a generation.
Lipstick on a pig.
Am I going use some of my very limited budget to buy the fantasy RPG where you're a standard quadrupedal cat going on adventures and dungeon crawls?
Yes.
Is it going to be basic a.f.?
Very probably also yes.
Do I care?
Fuck no, let me be a damn kitty already.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1527060/Cat_Gets_Medieval/
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