500,000 mph is 800,000 kilometers/hour or 800 megameters/hour. So it could reach the moon (384 megameters) in under 30 minutes. It could reach Mars in 68 hours or less than 3 days when Mars is closest to Earth (54600 megameters).
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In fact, it was my parent's generation who I saw anticipating armaggeddon, and they expected it in the year 2000. It's what the lyrics of 'Party Like It's 1999' are all about.
We didn't expect shit. It's just a song dude.
"well I just deleted my 15+ year account with quintillion karma."
Your account only had a quintillion karma? My account had a sextillion karma.
and that private companies provide better services and will keep costs down via competition and lack of regulation.
And reality is actually the opposite. Take Medicare Advantage plans. They cost the government more money than regular Medicare. And they are worse for consumers, because they have been found to deny 18% of claims they should have approved and that regular Medicare would have approved.
Although a doctor would be required to sign-off on the decision, their doctor simply reviews what the computer says So the doctor doesn't actually look at your individual case file like he should, he just rubberstamps in bulk all decisions spit out of the computer. So they will claim that they stay within the letter of the law by having a doctor "sign-off" on your decision, but in reality the doctor rubberstamps thousands of computer decisions all at once.
[One such ad caught the attention of Terry White, a disabled retiree from New York. In 2018, White invested $174,000 in the coins, according to a lawsuit by the New York attorney general — only to later learn that Lear charged a 33 percent commission.
Over several transactions, White, 70, lost nearly $80,000, putting an “enormous strain” on his finances, said his wife, Jeanne, who blames Fox for their predicament: “They’re negligent,” she said. A regretful White said he thought Fox “wouldn’t take a commercial like that unless it was legitimate.”]
Note to self: never go to In-N-Out burger again.
Usenet used to be where it was at for conversation on the Internet. Then it moved. Getting people to go back to Usenet is probably going to be as hard as spinning up a Facebook competitor.
It is purely a matter of free public servers. Right now, the free public servers are almost all Fedverse. But they could just as easily be Usenet servers. If the free Fedverse servers close like free Usenet servers did, then Fedverse will also decline. But Usenet actually has some superior features that Fedverse lacks (e.g. automatic merging of groups), so if free Usenet servers pop back up, it would take off again.
I’ve seen lots of people say “federation is like email”, but to me it’s like Usenet.
It is a lot like Usenet, but Usenet has some superior features.
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Discussion groups are automatically merged across all servers. So it is decentralized but does not feel decentralized.
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Newreaders only show you content that you have not already read/seen
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Readers let you kill articles in subscribed newsgroups and threads within subscribed newsgroup articles so that you don't see them in the future.
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This is awesome. Thanks!
Asking someone to download and install a Usenet client then set it up to connect to a server of their choice and then subscribing to newsgroups is way above and beyond what most people are willing to do in 2023, sadly.
This is not true at all. People download phone clients all the time. And there were also Usenet web clients. Subscribing to newsgroups is exactly the same as subscribing to subreddets or kbin magazines. And you have to pick a server for Fedverse also, but the the Usenet server doesn't matter at all like a Fedverse server does.
The only reason people don't use Usenet is because the free servers disappeared and ISPs no longer provided it with your internet service.
Why do Republicans hate America?