Dear Americans
Not a single news outlet aired President Biden's event at the White House just now where he announced over $40 BILLION in investments to expand broadband across America. Thank you, President Biden!
When will President Biden get the coverage & credit he deserves? This is why our media fails all of us.
@alexisdyslexic @skykiss the biggest losers in the WFH shift are the cities themselves. Entire economies absolutely up ended and simply won't recover. A shift from office space to residential would be the best choice for cities but it's an expensive retrofit to do in a short timeframe.
Corps and property owners lose as well but they can write it off and move on to other things.
@pixelpusher220 @alexisdyslexic @skykiss
And the people who insure the mortgage contracts are paying a lot of attention to the wildfires and the flooding.
There are a lot of places that won't get financing, so the land is worthless.
@pixelpusher220 @alexisdyslexic @skykiss
As the USA economy, like China and the UK, is heavily dependent on the mortgage, so any twitchiness in the housing market ripples out to the rest of their economies, and, then out to the rest of the world.
@BillySmith @alexisdyslexic @skykiss Indeed. One of the strengths of the US market historically is the rapid dissolution and re-constitution. People and corps will take sizeable baths...but the quicker it happens the faster some sense of recovery can happen.
The kicker here is the centralized city could be counted on to bounce back...eventually. A lot less bounce likely this go round
@pixelpusher220 @alexisdyslexic @skykiss
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BORHRKg-VoI
While Vinay is talking about Ireland after the crash in 2008, what he says still stands.
Construction technology has moved on, so it's way cheaper to build, but the housing codes have stayed the same.
Regulatory capture blocking proven, and insurable techniques.
Housing now has utility value, but the "store of economic wealth" is on the way out.
That's one of the roots for our current inequality.
@pixelpusher220 @alexisdyslexic @skykiss
Also, less travel, less carbon emissions, perhaps we'll still have breathable air in 2050.
Oil-rich billionaires and countries hate that idea. Next thing you know they'll be building huge destination-resort cities and buying sports venues for back-up.
@alexisdyslexic @skykiss Interesting. My conspiracy theory is much simpler: MSM outlets are all owned by a few billionaires who like paying no taxes, so they don't want a Democrat in the WH. They want Trump back, or DemonSantis, or any fascist thug who will keep cutting taxes, stacking SCOTUS, and reverting America back to pre-FDR's New Deal. They'd happily go back to owning slaves, IMO.
So they ghost Pres. Biden all the time.
@alexisdyslexic @MaierAmsden @skykiss This just jogged my memory. I'm old enough to remember when there were THREE networks that had news every weekday at 6pm-7pm and again at 11 pm. ABC, CBS, and NBC all had "news" divisions that dealt in nothing but the news of the day.
Here's the interesting part: it was called "journalism"; News Divisions were off limits for any network interference in what the News Division reported on.
The "Chinese wall" ended with FoxNews and Ken Starr.
@skykiss without having seen the details, if it's money to the oligarchs of cable cos it isn't worth news coverage. They lie cheat and steal all while not providing any competition.
If it's majority for community broadband *that's* would be news.
@pixelpusher220 @skykiss If we could get a Democrat super majority in state and federal legislatures, we could do what we need to improve this country for everyone.
Won't happen unless enough people vote Blue, though. We'll just stay stuck with corporate grifters.
@Ponygirl @pixelpusher220 @skykiss Agree, but the problem with that is once the SCOTUS made "corporations" people, giving them free reign to use all their wealth in dark money superPACS to create more wealth without even being identified, it's hard to imagine single donations from Americans competing.
I'm old enough to remember when no candidate had ever spent a billion dollars on any election. Not even PACs for president.
Buying the SCOTUS was a coup.
@Ponygirl @EarthOne @skykiss we need candidates who will take PAC money and tell them to piss off. A rare breed to be sure.
We can't disarm when the opposition isn't bound by the same rules.
Same concept as NY and CA drawing 'fair' congressional districts while TX AL and LA don't. Literally cost us the House this election
@OGjester @nomdeb @skykiss Well, at least you're living up to your "misanthrope" bio point.
It's not the railroads, but perhaps you can relate your rail shipping issues with a book I'm reading on the lives -- and deaths -- of "ocean truckers". It's a history lesson on US shipping and corporate-govt. alliances and morass. Kind of the same issues you have, except with hurricanes. Yow.
"Into The Raging Sea"
https://www.behance.net/gallery/65390975/Map-for-Into-The-Raging-Sea-by-Rachel-Slade
I was commissioned by HarperCollins USA to draw a map for the book by the writer Rachel Slade, 'Into The Raging Sea' (published in May 2018 by their imprint Ecco Books).The book deals with the tragedy of the container ship El Faro, which in October 2015…
@InayaShujaat @Geoffberner @skykiss Kinda does. If you skimp on all other hobbies and use "cheaper alternatives" online instead, one can stretch meager income a lot further than it would normally go.
Of course corporations and their collaborators might be unhappy about the long-term effects massive uptake of quasi-NEET lifestyle would result in, especially as far as their bottomlines go.
@skykiss Fucking finally. This is a tremendous win, especially for people in the Midwest that deal with spotty connections.
The sad thing is that we won't see the results of the buildout for another few years and whoever is President then is going to tout it as their own accomplishment. Not to rain on a parade, what matters is that people get the coverage, after all.
Not a single news outlet aired President Biden's event at the White House just now where he announced over $40 BILLION in investments to expand broadband across America.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-internet-broadband-bead-0b95fabd7f6833ce420c80d474a145a5
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-detail-plans-42-billion-investment-us-internet-access-2023-06-26/
President Joe Biden on Monday said that high-speed internet is no longer a luxury - it’s an “absolute necessity,” as he pledged that every household in the U.S. would have access by 2030, using cables made in the country. Biden said that more than 35,000 projects are already funded or underway across the nation to lay cables that provide internet access, as part of the “American Rescue Plan” that included $25 billion in funding for better access. But the president said it's not enough to have access, adding that his administration is working with service providers to bring down costs on what has become a household utility - like water or gas - but is often priced at a premium.
I have a few disappointments for things President Biden did/did not do, but that is how reasonable politics work. You don't get everything you want.
I think people have been way too hard on him.
I still feel gratitude that I live in the timeline where Trump didn't win a second term in 2020 for his "revenge tour".
perhaps he was bumped due to Putin's 11 minute speech about him offering the Wagner mercenaries to join Putin's army with no hard feelings, wink wink. As explained afterwards by Michael McFaul, Putin is definitely scared of those Wagner guys.
Probably see the Biden news at some point. MSNBC had him on for a few minutes earlier but I was too busy typing or something. Peace.....gonna follow you as I was ASA, Army Security Agency during wind down of Vietnam. Had the good old Top Secret Clearance. carry on
@skykiss maybe before the media gives an honest accounting of his legislative history. Even the media can't spin his blatant giveaways as a positive without looking like idiots to their viewers.
Things like his blocking of Right to Repair legislation so car manufacturers can continue to screw us for example won't get covered.
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