ISPs have real costs too

I completely disagree that it is a decent metaphor. Unlike coffee, internet data usage is entirely nebulous to mostly everyone outside of the tech sphere. The metaphor serves as a way of misrepresenting a widespread ignorance for a fundamental understanding.

If we wanted a decent metaphor we’d have to compare data usage to something like health insurance. Well you see, you pay for your rate of coverage at these visits per year but also have to pay your deductible that might or might not be used off routine…

In the end if we want to simplify internet expense it is this: ISPs charge way more than they need to and search for ways to charge more to maximize profits without improving service.

Capitalism, like feudalism offers upward mobility by appeasing the established elite. Seriously, nobody is wealthy under capitalism by earning a wage, they’re wealthy by owning the means of production. You either die working class or your betray the class you were born into to use others.

Pretty much everything does, even your car will and I would totally download a car if I could.

Bigger number to IP addresses because there are so many devices now some regions can run out.

You know you’re a POS when a piracy community cheers for copyright lawsuits

Many will recommend you use Stremio instead. You’ll probably want to use a VPN depending on your region though.

Never ask a company to pick between the right thing and profit. It was all a matter of time till Google needed to stop growing and start producing profit for investors.

To make it worse the Pixel 9 starts at $800 just like iPhone. So if you’re buying Android you don’t really save money over an iPhone like you used to.

only about a third that want one but another third would rather argue with you about whether it is or isn’t actually fascism.

Kinda. It might be 3rd parties using it but it is 100% an API designed by Google to keep apps on Google Play.

It doesn’t really matter as a PC does so much more than play games. It’s like arguing that a Nintendo Switch is cheaper than an a flagship smartphone. Ok, have fun trying to file your taxes, run blender, write code, browse the web, or backup media on your playstation.

We cock things up sometimes.

I got news for you about almost every ISP

Tbf you’re paying for the college to provide you internet.

They shift sequentially though via the paddles on the wheel.

This is some peak capitalist realism. Never once did I say that communism was the solution, I provided no solutions at all actually, and I simply pointed out the flaws in capitalism but you know so little about economic systems to go to communism.

Can’t do any more mental gymnastics to defend capitalism so you go to fear of another system not even discussed. You and I are not immune to propaganda and if you believe in democracy then why would your workplace not be democratic? The manufacturers never would have voted to move their jobs to China during the late 20th century. The capitalists did it. Walmart was a small family business and now it’s the largest employer in the US and half of it is owned by people born into a specific family like a monarchy.

I get that you support Keynesian economics but this was before globalism and you can’t rely on a government to fight capitalism in places it doesn’t govern.

Yeah, then it can just export all of the problems to other countries and abuse the hell out of those with no power to fight back.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html

specialist minerals needed for hydro storage and renewables

What specialist materials are we talking about? Wind, solar, and pumped hydro use primarily copper, silicon, carbon, and concrete.

Pretty sure there’s enough weapons grade plutonium to run the US for 100 years in decommissioned nuclear weapons alone.

I think 100 years is enough time to build pumped hydro storage and renewables like solar/wind.

I’m all for capitalism, but not the current near limitless capitalism

That’s just capitalism. Capital is power and if you allow people to be more powerful than others, they will use that power to amass more power. There never was and never will be limitless capitalism because we live in a finite world but there will be limitless suffering for the sake of profit.