ShellMonkey

I use all the things and in many cases multiple of them, but working IT and self hosting a bunch tends to lend itself to that

Not contracted monopolies or direct city run, but like 'IAAS' seems to work. Much like how you see some small cell companies providing unique offers riding on one of the big carriers networks. Often those small carriers provide better deals, particularly when the carriers they ride on are forced to sell wholesale access at reasonable rates.

The city selling wholesale access funds the infrastructure maintenance and the carriers are better able to compete with each other since all they really have to do is set up a router and pay the city's access rate fees.

Not so far off, providing infrastructure locally then leaves a lot of the major transit to backbone carriers to make the interconnects. Those providers are largely transparent to the end users. Now nationalizing carriers like that would be a hefty lift, but if we can take the local service out of the ISPs hands it would let the municipal hosts negotiate those peering arrangements in bulk. How many towns are well equipped to handle that might be another matter though.

Pretty well every case I've read of municipal owned fiber nets has been a grand success, barring interference by the local carriers. Let the city own the infra and the carriers compete for access. Of course you get the whinging about 'muh free market/choice' but that's the case for any public works really.

Oh, that's why mine suddenly removed the data caps... Here I was hoping we might be getting some decent competition. Eh, will take it while I can until the next FCC flips the rules again.

Hard to say, but with how few sizeable chunks of natural stone/metal meteors make it through it's tough to expect some relatively fragile satellites would survive the trip down.

The problem really stems from men being given a strongly conflicted message of what 'being a man' means, particularly in the 'default' spaces. There is still a very strong undercurrent, at least in America, that men are supposed to be this strong, independent, stoic figure relying on themselves. Without a reinforcing support to acknowledge that asking for help is ok it's easy to leave just as conflicted as one comes in.

Censoring opposing opinions isn't an answer, but leaving them to their own devices in the public spaces is just as bad or worse. There needs to be a reconciliation between the warring perspectives if any kind of progress is going to happen.

Wonder if they would revoke it if he just walked in and said "hey, you're gonna feed everyone in this city today..."

Oh indeed it is, was my daily work filing papers in cases for about 6 years. The usual deal being to list all assets and all liabilities and it's assumed that everything is subject to discharge, but a stack of exceptions allow creditors to object and prevent their claims from being included. One exception I recall but rarely saw was judgements arising out of fraud or malicious actions.

Sanctions always are a tool just for annoying the judge, who can really do whatever they want withing the bounds of law. Enforcing them on random 3rd parties might be difficult, but if they're impeding the court's work well, judges don't take contempt actions very well typically.

Now what kind of creative solution might a judge ordering that liquidation use to deal with that...

I wonder if it'd be workable to fine anyone involved some periodic amount, individually of course. How long do you suppose they would keep supporting him. One thing to have convinced a bunch of low info persons to shout your praises, asking them to bankroll your protest is another.

Although the conspiracy movement emerged out of fringe imageboards in 2017,

4chan, /pol/ if I recall

It's an interesting story for sure, just have to wince when articles like this treat some sites like it's a big secret place. I'd guess that in some part it's so you don't get those people that go to check the source and get sucked into it.

A smart phone may be a near requirement, but the latest folding gen 74 fruit flavored excellent rectangle for $2,000 is not. So there is defiantly some room for luxury vs need in that space.