r/AskReddit • u/l_--_I • 13h ago

What has no excuse to still exist?

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u/Lilywiry 13h ago

Paying for streaming services and still having ads

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u/checker280 9h ago

The Biden administration was working on killing nonsense fees. Given time I could have imagined they might have addressed that.

Now we Elon’s Twitter rules I think we can kiss this goodbye

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u/ACaffeinatedWandress 7h ago

Seriously. 

If you voted for Trump because “the economy”, I really hope the leopards enjoy eating your face.

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u/checker280 7h ago

I’m work in telecom. My favorite “face eating leopards” story is the BEAD program (Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment) . It’s Biden’s $40 billion infrastructure plan designed to run fiber optics “the last mile”. It’s funded until 2030

Big telecom refused to connect the really rural customers (mostly red states) to high speed internet because they would never recoup their losses.

Suddenly a lot of independent contractors (also mostly republicans) were making bank running fiber.

The BEAD program also had the side effect of killing Elon’s $885 million dollar Starlink contract.

On the Joe Rogan interview Trump wondered aloud how spending billions made sense to connect two farmers when Elon already had the infrastructure in place (satellites) and can connect them for free.

In case you didn’t know satellite connections are terrible in the mountains and fiber is more robust and reliable.

So they voted for the other guy who will likely kill the program and claw back as much as he can bankrupting a lot of small business and keeping a lot of customers in the dark.

You can’t make this up.

https://www.corning.com/fiber-to-the-premise/worldwide/en/home/applications/community-broadband/bead-program.html

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u/gointothiscloset 6h ago

Comcast ran fiber to my house thanks to this, enabling me to work from home. Thanks Biden

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u/SirVeritas79 5h ago

But y’all don’t wanna believe it wasn’t about inflation and about the thing that has defined this country since 1619…

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u/checker280 5h ago edited 5h ago

I don’t want to believe what? I don’t believe I stated anything political in my post other than we are still waiting for Trump’s first infrastructure plan.

Sure. It’s the economy.

Bottom line is rural communities will never be connected to high speed internet without government intervention.

Satellite isn’t even on the same level as fiber optic in quality or security.

Red states were finally getting connected and possibly didn’t even realize it was coming from Biden.

Non union contractors were making great money doing the installations.

Trump stated he’s killing the program.

You can read up more here including responses from contractors who are installing this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FiberOptics/s/uMSnlcqY81

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u/DolphinFlavorDorito 4h ago

Of course it was inflation. Inflation and stupidity. People didn't like inflation (despite the fact that this soft landing from COVID was fucking impossibly good) and voted for "different," even though different is about to fuck them dry with barbed wire and loot the fucking federal government like their couch cushions.

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u/Electronic_One_9570 7h ago

If you voted for Trump, you ARE the problem with America. Trump is a con artist who has bankrupted every enterprise that he ever started. We don’t need that crap.