He should share the blame because he started the race of litter space with trashes at this scale. Also his toy got used in the Ukraine’s invasion to repel Russian force is not helping slowing the trend. If it’s inevitable anyway, there should be foresight and regulation on this before we see stuff falling from the sky in literal sense.
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A bad thing happening to a bad person. Fascinating.
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The problem with Starlink is that it’s polluting the whole sky for the object of delivering service to a rather small percentage of the population who could actually be reached by earthbound technology.
It reminds me of the Iridium satellite phone system
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It’s almost like private enterprise isn’t the best way to provide a critical public utility. Maybe as Canadians we should have a good long think about that instead of just shifting public funds from a local oligopoly to a foreign monopoly?
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That’s not how taxes work. I can speak from experience with my in-laws who built a house on their ranch. They wanted a more structured road. Instead of the poorly maintained county road - sure, for the low price of $30-40k of their own money. Want wired internet - another $10k. If they wanted/need something utilies based, they were going to have to pay, not the taxpayer.
Private citizens dont get subsidies, and certainly not fuel subsidies.
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Our tax dollars very much subsidize various kinds of destructive projects… just like at the highway system that destroyed entire communities and some others much unhealthier… or how much gets given away to oil companies and how they get tax breaks… or how our tax dollars maintain the military, and how land has been used to build military bases… are you seriously trying to argue that none of that is subsidized by our tax dollars?
And private citizens might not get subsides (unless they’re wealthy, then probably they do find ways to get tax incentives), but corporations very much do, including those building houses that end up getting funding for building roads.
So, not sure what you’re talking about here, but your scenario doesn’t seem to be addressing anything that @robertmckenna said here?
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Seems people in Ireland do. Not all private citizens live in the same country.
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Are you trying to say… that America isn’t the only country on earth and not ever country works in the same way! Well, I never! /s
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I mean, every country should work just like the U.S. The rest of the world still has some catching up to do. /S
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I mean, doesn’t the whole world want to experience our freedumbs!!! Like, freedumb from decent health care and freedumb from not getting shot on a random tuesday!!! Don’t you all want to have the same kind of stupid society we’ve built here!!! /s
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Also… there are indeed programs for private land owners receiving various kinds of subsidies…
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Indeed.
Our new user declares things they clearly know nothing about with the overconfidence of a mediocre white man. Ah, for that level of confidence.
You already mentioned the fossil fuel subsidies, but here’s a good quick read.
Fossil fuel subsidies in US
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The rumor (emphasis added) in Dallas was that the (very tony) NorthPark shopping center, and the cow pasture across the street from it, both had the same owner, who received a farming subsidy for the grazing cattle. I couldn’t find anything (e.g. in the following article) that actually, specifically says so.
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So there ya go… private citizens DO in fact get subsides!
Interesting that OP that made the claim isn’t around to answer this!
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“Today, I created an account on a bbs to try and prove a longtime member wrong, solely with the power of my anecdote which had no relevance to the original post.”
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