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Just because lots of people made the same decision doesn’t make it smart or reasonable.
by adamcstephens 5y ago
Just because lots of people made the same decision doesn’t make it smart or reasonable.
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoI just don't understand comments like this. 7 million people didn't decide to move here this year. Conditions in Arizona have dramatically changed over the lifetime of the state. It doesn't make sense to live where you can freeze to death or don't have access to water, either, does it? Except those two scenarios include most Americans. Without modern infrastructure, it hardly makes sense to live anywhere.
- adamcstephens 5y agoObviously 7 million people didn’t move there over the course of this year. If that’s what you thought I was getting at, I’m not surprised you were confused. Conditions have changed, but are people reconsidering their own decisions?
- andrewmcwatters 5y agoPeople don't decide where they want to be born.
- arcticfox 5y agoRight, but your point seems to be getting at Starlink owing you a functioning dish in your climate, which is just kind of an odd take. There are dozens of products that are a bad fit for where I live. If it makes economic sense, I'm sure they'll fix it or someone else will do it better eventually. If not, maybe the municipal governments can subsidize something that works there?
- zzzztopp 5y agoNope, namely if you suggest they decide to move. But other taxpayers has to pay to help them continue comfortable live as they live now.
- cartoonworld 5y agoPlease. The whole point of Starlink is that it's suitable for places where there is poor existing infrastructure. The desert tops the list! They also have service area restrictions for sign up. Just say Tesla dropped the ball on this engineering prototype and V2 will work on the sun.
- adamcstephens 5y agoTo be clear, I hope Tesla fails in everything they do. That wasn’t really the point I was making though.
- cartoonworld 5y agoI guess you hate Phoenix? Alice cooper, the Meat Puppets, stunning desert vistas? People should almost certainly get over grass lawns, I know there is going to be huge problems with water, but afiact Phoenix recycles a huge proportion of their greywater, and this is a perfect use case for solar, molten salt, nuclear. Hard to farm, I guess. Isn't there gold to mine too?
- jessaustin 5y agoI guess you hate Phoenix? Before reading this thread I didn't...