The blue states always have the cool stuff!
Something something freedom something? *
* Offer not valid in all 50 states, void where prohibited
Wish I hadn’t built my life in the red hellhole
What about me? When I was born Ohio is what we’d now call blue. I say it that way because when I was born, states didn’t have colors. In fact in 1980 when reagan won, the map he won was blue. Today that wouldn’t make sense, so you get my point.
By the time I was a teenager Ohio had become a swing state.
And now it’s red.
Where the fuck is my blue ohio I was brought up in???
Sunk cost fallacy… It might be worth moving in the long run. It’s far from perfect, but I know that the difference between living in a solid blue state, vs a purple state, is huge. I can’t even imagine coming from a deep red state. Shit would be like entering the Promised Land.
Which is sad, because blue states have their fair share of issues.
I used to live in Alberta and I’m still reeling from that.
Bret Hart still running around up there complaing about goldberg?
He’s still bitter about the Montreal Screwjob
Just a coincidence, I’m sure.
I wish California would implement this law as well.
Low-income plans
Love to means-test fucking everything. You can’t just have $15/mo internet. You have to plead poverty for fear of middle class or (god forbid) rich people getting a basic utility at a sensible price.
Nevermind how means testing inevitably creates these legal hurdles for administrators to leap over. The act of means testing is inevitably what businesses target in an effort to avoid compliance. “Oh! It’s too hard to tell who qualifies! Undo burden! Undo burden!” It wouldn’t be a burden if the ISP was limited to a universal flat rate. It wouldn’t be a burden if municipalities owned and operated their own independent flat-rate internet service as a public utility.
The USPS and Canada Post should both be looking into becoming rural ISPs. They’re in the business of delivering messages/packets, no one ever said “mail” deliveries couldn’t include email and internet service.
damn how will the isps afford the maintenance costs of digging up a cable once every 100 years
Ideally they won’t. I’m not a fan of American ISPs and I’ve never lived in the US, I’d love to see internet be treated as a public utility. It’s about time for rural connectivity to follow up rural electrification.
