5g mesh network towers. I don't personally care but I do find it deeply funny that Americans will get beet fucking red about getting a cell tower in their suburban hellscape because they think it still has "rural character" and then also put up a mat black Obelisk of Verizon every mile and a half down ancient mountains so they can get any internet at all.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that's in a parking lot why isn't it a street light lmao

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 17 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Its actually on highway 36 near Estes Park in CO. This one is near a lot but their all up and down that high way.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Why do I need internet on a narrow, twisting, mountain road?

[–] Speaker@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The yawning void is hungry and I need to text my estranged adult children.

[–] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's fair. I didn't think of that.

[–] Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

Because that narrow, twisting mountain road is less than 30m from a city of 100,000, and a lot of people camp there and have no idea how to navigate using real maps and rely upon internet connected GPS on their phones. Also, because, why not? China has 5g on top of the remotest mountains, because it’s useful to have.

[–] huf@hexbear.net 12 points 2 weeks ago

that thing somehow reminds me of the huge random daggers stuck in the ground in riven all over the place:

and also those stick-type hand grenades.