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Starlink operator SpaceX is fighting Virginia's plan to deploy fiber Internet service to residents, claiming that federal grant money should be given to Starlink instead. SpaceX is already in line to win over $3 million in grant money in the state but is seeking $60 million.

Starlink is poised to benefit from the Trump administration rewriting rules for the $42 billion Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) grant program. While the Biden administration decided that states should prioritize fiber in order to build more future-proof networks, the Trump administration ordered states to revise their plans with a "tech-neutral approach" and lower the average cost of serving each location.

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[–] pyre@lemmy.world 54 points 1 day ago (3 children)

they hate you. always remember. they hate your entire existence. they'd literally crush you in a hydraulic press if they could. giving you pain is the only way they feel a semblance of happiness.

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Look, yes, will we and they and literally all life end they aren't stopped?

Sure, yes, obviously.

Can they be negotiated with persuaded medicated or coerced into rational sane self interest? Nope. Not one of them.

But if youre not willing to end all life for theit bullshit, to kill yourself in such a slow and spectacylar manner that no life escapes, you're advocaging violence, you vig murdering dummy.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

you almost had me there

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think they hate us, it just that they love money more. They can, and do, inflict untold misery and suffering so long as there is money at the end of it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

no. there's no end to the amount of disdain they have for you. they'd do it for free too; they just don't have to.

[–] Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People who disagree with you are people who never spent time with the ultra rich. I've had the pleasure to hang in those circles and it was absolutely eye opening the complete disdain that social class has toward the working class. It's so fucking crazy that one has to see it for themselves to truly appreciate the hate they have for everyone not in their economic circles.

Preach on brother, but I also understand why the plebs don't believe you

[–] outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

They are genuinely inhuman monsters.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Isn't it that they just don't care?

Nope. It's active and malevolent.

I don't care about most everyone on the planet, even if I had their resources I couldn't summon up the fucks needed to be actively malicious in the way that they are. Not caring is Howard Hughes buying a TV station so he could watch whatever he damned well wanted, not filing a lawsuit because a state is improving it's utilities which only vaguely undercuts you if even that.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

you kidding? they're demons, making your life worse is what they jerk off to.

[–] int32@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty sure they mostly do it for the profit.