dude (dude@take.iteasy.club)'s status on Wednesday, 02-Sep-2020 16:58:18 EDT
dude@tk >but what they really want to do is sell out.In the words of Ajit Pai, chair of the FCC not even a month ago after they grabbed about a quarter of out space on the 9cm band "The FCC looks forward to moving quickly to adopt service rules for the 3.45 GHz band and then hold an auction to bring this prime mid-band spectrum to market."https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-366068A1.pdfor as the Grand Cheez Whiz flat out said "In addition, last October, I directed the Department of Commerce to develop a National Spectrum Strategy to free up even more spectrum for economic activity, including 5G."https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-united-states-5g-deployment/fuck our weather satellites, fuck amateur radio, the hogs are running wild with prime public assets that can still be pillaged for profitsI wonder how many of the kids that we were already having a hard time interesting in STEM stuff will manage to talk their folks to cough up an extra $50 for what could either be a passing interest or the gateway to a number of possible careers.
@1iceloops123 okay, I've had to defer starting school or looking for work because of my parents health. I'm not even remotely tempted to act like an idiot. This is a great time to focus on bettering yourself instead of adding to the negativity. Find something new to learn and focus on that instead. @endomain@hakui@moonman@tk
@p compare that to the way things were here pre-mastodon
Guess what happened afterwards.
Quitter.se didn’t die, the Federation grew, people openly argued with each other and debated pointless things, and many features were built to aid in these arguments. Things got a little weird, but in that good sort of way, because once things settled – there was a procedure for the next exodus (The SEALION CLUB pre-gab.ai one).
This exodus brought a great many people from the right-leaning side, politically, who also did not want a federation or decentralization. The admins did their best to educate, like Hannes had before. Some of these new users stayed. Most left when they found an insulated network (gab.ai) that didn’t argue with them. It had Notch (of minecraft fame) come and say Sealion.Club wouldn’t last 6 months. Other celebrities stopped by. Then it was quiet again. No one cares, because the people who stayed enriched GNU social – and the people who left, didn’t understand the philosophy. This reminds me of the current Mastodon happening.https://robek.world/featured/what-is-gnu-social-and-is-mastodon-social-a-twitter-clone/ @donaldtrump