Starlink

We use a Starlink system over two years now, while traveling through Europe. Everywhere we go we have internet and (streaming) television from our home country (the Netherlands). Flawless.

As long as you have a more or less clear view of the sky, internet will run. With some trees, interruptions may occur but for internet and streaming TV no probs. Realtime stuff like gaming and teleconferencing will suffer more from interruption, but we don't game and rarely have the need for teleconferencing. A whatsapp call with our (grand)children always survives.

Yes, nowadays it bothers us a bit that it is Elon M and the US providing this, but there's no alternative and it will take a long time untill.

Customer service of Starlink is more than great, pricing is reseonable and the system impresses me as an electrical engineer. More than 8500 satelites in a flawless handover sequence. Check out this site and impress yourselve.

https://satellitemap.space/ 

Social media reactions overwhelming

 It's becoming one-way communication. You all will recognize the situation that somebody or a news site posts something, within 30 minutes polluted with hundreds, sometime thousands of reactions. 

36 Minutes, >1700 reactions.

Nobody is reading those reactions, yeah, maybe 5 and then you'll get the picture. But most of the time people just post a reaction to post a reaction. Period.

It give us the impression that we can join the discussion, but this is only an illusion. Social media are becoming one-way (and they know it)

You can see this as an advertisement for cheap booze, everybody wants it but it is still cheap.

But yeah, I'm also trying to get attention, poor me.

Lame duck

  The EU is a lame duck. The orange clown got us by the b*lls (we are without) and all we do is nothing. Yeah, some disapproval wispering. Germany even pulled back out of Greenland after two days to avoid the tariffs, which would hurt the already faible car industry.

Can you believe this. Are we nothing? With all our culture and history we are just bullied by a moron, just because he can? 

I'm ashamed that we just let this happen. And I don't mean nuke them, but..

...we could actually turn this 100% around by back bluffing this dude. As he has no thourough plan behind his power, he could just collapse in stuttering a reply.

So, look for his weakest point and...fire...words, not more. Strong and wise words he cannot handle and he will fall in his own trap.

Argue this guy down.

But, yeah, who is going to do that? We (EU) have no b*lls whatsoever, so we are lost.

We are lost, mark my words