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by seadan83 2y ago
> There's people with pack mules delivering aid. Including starlink receivers Do you have evidence that any starlink receivers were delivered via pack mule? It would be cool if so, if not - potentially urban legend akin to "spi
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I'm a bit confused. Would you mind clarifying whether you think using "crutch" is the more clear vocabulary, or whether alternative vocabulary would be more clear?
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> relied on heavily or excessively That _OR_ is doing a lot of work. I believe that 'or' makes the word not objectively pejorative. Context is important. A no-true-scotsman insinuation, or an insinuation that the crutch will ne
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by seadan83 2y ago
> SpaceX can't do everything for everyone. But they will do what they will. This underscores two points I think. The first, the question of whether starlink was anything. The second point, context. At a point, a can opener is litera
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by seadan83 2y ago
Crutches allow broken legs to heal properly. It could be that some simply don't have that same strong negative connotation. What is more, getting hung up on the wording is missing the larger point.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Withdrawal can often be both a mental and chemical process. The desire to do something and constantly thinking about it can be just as much habit as it is chemical. We are mostly on the same page I think. To the point though, re: food - it
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by seadan83 2y ago
Chemical dependency I believe can confuse the brain, where it actually does think you need the drug to live. It can be very hard to avoid booze or cigarettes. They are everywhere. Potentially throughout all of a person's social group.
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by seadan83 2y ago
> when work is done, I leave, and it's done This might speak to the whip I have worked under, rarely has this been the case for me. Just demanding jobs with too much to do. Office is where you go in super early (or WFH super early)
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by seadan83 2y ago
Re: "This devices are for the use of first responders and temporary access for local residents. By first responders I don't mean government, not even State/Local." Are we talking in circles? Very early on, I already wrot
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Respectfully, that does not answer either question.
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by seadan83 2y ago
> For many people in the region, starlink dishes whether directly, on towers, or on cells on wheels or some other SATCOM provider was the first time they were able to communicate post disaster. Re C: "Many" is not a specific nu
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by seadan83 2y ago
The concern regarding a drug as a crutch is stil valid. Smokers/drinkers may deal with stress by smoking/drinking. After cessation, ways to deal with stress need to be learned from a new. "Addiction" is ambiguous and a t
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by seadan83 2y ago
> The equipment is properly free for many people I'm curious how do you know this exactly, and how many is many?
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by seadan83 2y ago
At the risk of re-opening this.. I can concisely now say that all along I have only been asking: "is this useful?" I would postulate, for the starlink and month free to be useful the following are needed: (A) access to the device
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by seadan83 2y ago
> There is absolutely nothing further to discuss between us I would agree it is better ended. > I want to make this point abundantly clear for anyone who is clicking 'expand' on all of your downvoted comments In a similar ve
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by seadan83 2y ago
> "Every claim?" Yep I was curious about this and triple checked. Some claims had citations. Therefore at least some were supported. I wrote: > Somewhat helping a couple hundred people out of a million plus, is not quite th
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by seadan83 2y ago
Wow.. what did I fake quote? What claims were unsupported? My question to you whether you were talking about FEMA or civilians was a QUESTION!! It was not a logical trap. I wanted to understand what you were saying better. That you ranted a
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by seadan83 2y ago
It seems there is just a half dozen of us in the same thread now :) What you're saying has value and interest, but the delivery is violating the discussion guidelines and heading into the vitriol territory. I suspect a mod might have s
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by seadan83 2y ago
> Zero sum or not, the attitude you have about budget discussions is why we are about to print ourselves into a depression. I'll ignore (beyond pointing it out here) that you are putting words into my mouth and conducting a personal
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by seadan83 2y ago
Your response here would have been stronger had you skipped the first paragraph, a shallow dismissal. Calm down. Details on the differences is illuminating, the "you don't know what you are talking about" is unhelpful.
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by seadan83 2y ago
Calm down Astroid please. You make good points, except the vitriol is very noisy. You can make those same points in half the text and without being mean.
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by seadan83 2y ago
> The devices were in immediately the storm passed Fema currently only has 40 in. (Citation in another comment, kindly take my word for it). Do you know how many immediately afterwards, any data or evidence? Even wild ass guess? > The
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by seadan83 2y ago
Not accepting claims is different from anti elon bias. You say X is good or bad, my response is prove it. You say X is meaningful, I have the same response. That is not being upset, it is being skeptical. With that said, I now concede ther
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by seadan83 2y ago
Please don't interpret what I'm writing as dismissing the entire relief effort. I am not, construing it as such is (I feel) willful misinterpretation. So let's back up and clarify. Before that, a more direct response to my qu
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For france at least, two thirds of energy is nuclear, falling demand, and now lots of renewables coming online [1] Falling demand is notable to me. Though, the nuclear backbone and full embrace of renewable deployments is IMO smart [1] htt
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by seadan83 2y ago
I have learned now from other replies that there is a free return. 2 of 3 criteria I stipulated are met. Units being donated meets the first criteria, though that still relies on a donation. The logistics of returning the equipment is then
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The difference I raised is not necessarily dramatic. Mostly i wanted to point out the ease of extraction, processing, and quality are all variable. Context matters. Consider oil for example, when the price is high then low productivity oil
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by seadan83 2y ago
That does raise the utility - thank you for conveying that info.
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by seadan83 2y ago
What part of "the road story" is nonsense exactly? Washed out roads and cut off communities AFAIK is obviously an issue. There are only so many helicopters. Are you implying each and every one were able to get water, food, evac a
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by seadan83 2y ago
Asteroid stated earlier: "At worse this is nice gesture " I mostly wanted to correct that to say at worse it is a non gesture. Somewhat helping a couple hundred people out of a million plus, is not quite the "nice" gestu

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