TFS says satellite services were cut off.
Don't know how they did that.
TFA says: Mobile internet and satellite TV has also been severely disrupted across the country.
Nothing about Starlink... are they even allowed to operate there?

Nobody wants to go to Texas
(BTW, why do people here think the shuttle is in NY? TFA correctly states that it is in the Smithsonian outside Washington, DC.)

How about "Ladybird Killer Edition"

Hitler and Stalin got along famously, for a while... Sucked to be Polish in that while though.

Both Hitler and Stalin are important lessons for the followers of extremists... They don't care about you and they will always betray you, it's just a question of when.

Rommel after years of dedicated service was executed to satisfy Hitler's paranoia... so you really think Trump cares about you, a nobody in Bumfuck, Nebroma. Hell, the farmers are already being betrayed. Just a question of when.

People would rather do the right thing. Piracy became a thing because other methods were so abusive that doing the right thing felt wrong. Streaming came along and offered us a way to do the Right Thing (TM) without the egregious abuse. Of course this was never going to last but it took the media cartels this long to figure out how to be abusive via streaming. It really didn't fit into their business models and they were hoping it would just go away.

Now they've adapted their abuse to streaming, people are going to go back to piracy because it feels more right than doing the Right Thing (TM). Yarrr.

The Technofascists are desperate to increase profits and will try anything.

Wind and solar with batteries (SWB) has been the absolute least expensive source of energy for several years.
People keep trying to revive nuclear but it has always been the most expensive (as well as longest lead time) source of energy.

TFA said the "cost 30,000 cars and billions in lost revenue"
Try reading the article again to understand economics.

The fools who manage the forests in California have moved on from previous disasters of management:
- First, clear cut to harvest profits
- Second, allow the forest to grow back with an unhealthy dense overgrowth
- Third, thin the overgrowth by "prescribed burning" which damages the forest, the environment, the water and, of course, human health.

In my area we fortunately haven't had any natural forest fires for a few years but we have dense smoke every year from the idiots burning the forest.

The obvious solution is manual thinning then chipping to mulch which improves forest health, avoids burning, retains soil moisture and lowers forest temperature and cannot support a wildfire.

You don't own anything.
Everything belongs to the man. Your manual labor, your thoughts, your actions.
Welcome to the tech oligarchy.

Interesting that they were using human moderation but now feel that their AI is good enough (cheap enough) to do the job.
I take that this is just more enshitification.

... after abandoning thousands of miles of useless track.

There is a growing body of evidence which shows that microplastics are literally everywhere in our environment and are infiltrating all living things.
Lots of evidence to humans... Alzheimer's, cancer, metabolic disorders.
Unfortunately, the plastics industry is fighting back to protect their profits. There was recently an attempt to control plastic pollution with an international treaty but this was effectively sabotaged by the industry.
Isn't capitalism great?

I don't think shipping is a "core competency".
Most retailers outsource shipping to UPS, USPS, FedEx, etc.
Amazon ships via these carriers and is developing it's own logistics in high density areas.
Still not a core competency... try something like marketing, pricing, product selection, etc.