See Seyonic's Youtube video.
The 512-SIM racks can only addreses 64 at a time. This comports with what people noticed about the antenna count.
8x is nearly an order of magnitude difference and chaged my mind about the likely purpose.
Presumably the spammers expect the SIM's to get blacklisted and move on?
But WHO is provisioning a quarter million cards at a time without tripping flags?
> secret server-side backdoors that will store less secure copies of messages
How do you do that with end-to-end cryptosystems?
Where will they park all the jets?
The absurdity of 45,000 going to one place at the same time for anything other than a sporting event is off the charts. Didn't anyone of the COP30 organizers question the idea of flying in 900 747 flights to a town on the edge of the Amazon for a conference? (You know they could always clear out some of the Amazon rain forest to make room for the needed hotel space...)
Im trying to imagine what productive purpose there is to collecting 45,000 people in one place? Maybe eight or ten of them can have discussion and the other 44,990 people can sit there and just listen?
If every attendee got two minutes to speak, as a way to justify the expense of flying them halfway around the world, the conference would take over 1,500 hours (45,000 x 2 / 60).
There's only one room for every three attendees, apparently the issue is the organizers had a faulty understanding of the law of supply and demand...
Take a look at cancer survivor rates in the UK vs here, and if you have the time, look up wait times for common procedures in the UK.
Next time you see a Canadian, ask them what happens if their doctor retires or decides to stop practicing in Canada... the answer is their patients need to find a new doctor that will take them - not an easy thing to do...
U.S. healthcare companies are guaranteed a certain profit level by the ACA.
The reason the gov't is shutdown right now is because Republicans are letting *temporary* Democrat subsidies for "affordable" healthcare expire *exactly* when the Democrats wanted them to. If Schumer and Jefferies wanted to make the subsidies permanent they could have done so when Biden was in the Whitehouse.
They thought they could kick the can until Biden's second term and then be heroes again by extending the temporary covid healthcare subsidies... whoops.
A wise man once said "elections have consequences"...
FTI Consulting found that 45% of 133 provider-payer disputes in 2024 failed to reach timely agreements. The disruptions have affected tens of thousands of patients.
How do we get from "45% of 133 disputes" to "affected tens of thousands of patients"?
Memorial Sloan Kettering's leadership described the practice as using patients as bargaining chips despite record insurer profits.
Let's not forget who GUARANTEED insurance company profits? (Hint, it wasn't the facist orange man, and wasnt skeepy joe - it was goid old Barack "Every family will see $2,500/year savings on healthcare coverage" Obama.
Insurers threaten to drop providers all the tome, thats how they get concessions from the healthcare providers and helps to make coverage slightly more affordable.
You may not like the cost of care in America, but ive never heard of an American flying into canada or the UK for care, but the reverse is quite common.
Maybe compare cancer survivability rates between the countries with 'free' healthcare and the 'horrible' us healthcare system.
Tovar's point was "we're a month into an unenforced mandate, why lash out against it? What's the provocation? Are you upset they might enforce it in the future, so to save time you'll protest against it now?
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Also keep in mind that some platforms let you set up word filters. Bluesky and Twitter have that, or at least Twitter used to years ago when I was on there.
It's nice that old Twitter and now BlueSky let you programmatically define the boundaries of your online echo chamber, ensuring you won't be exposed to anything you don't want to be exposed to...
I can't contemplate how sensitive the British must be as to require such on the content they publish.
As a reminder, the British are locking up citizens for social media posts they deem harmful - the sensitivity of the British people seemingly cannot be overstated...
The cables sit on the ocean floor and carry 95% of the world's international internet traffic.
Really? 95% of the WORLD'S International traffic passes thru cables in Tonga?
What a stupid hot-take.
Starlink isnt a charity, but musk provided free starlink to Ukraine military for a ling time, and when he asked to be paid for it but the US gov't, democrats said "Nyet"
Why not get mad at GM for not giving Ukraine free Humvees?
Maybe don't locate e-commerce server farms on backwater Polynesian islands with poor connectivity?
Just a thought...
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