• Talcosis@lemmy.zip
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    4 hours ago

    I mean if we’re looking at pure economics, it’s probably not even worth running power lines to your parents. Matter of fact, they probably wouldn’t even have electricity if the government didn’t force electrical companies to build power lines to everyone, with the electrification act of 1968.

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      2 hours ago

      It isnt worth it, but at least in Canada and USA we’ve given the ISPs billions of dollars to service them, and they keep adding a token amount of people and saying shucks all the money is gone we couldn’t do what we said, and then we give them more. Rinse and repeat.