I’m thankful for libraries and fire departments.
Shout out too for tim berners-lee. I was going to say CERN but it looks like he left there to found W3C
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I am sure some of them are privatized. They want to privatize everything, they think the only legitimate function of government is protecting property. If they got what they wanted all industries would consolidate into one company and those would consolidate then we’d just have the disney/amazon/exon/whatever mega corporation left. Like in idiocracy but with meaner spirited leaders.
Oh it wouldn’t be Idiocracy, we would definitely be headed down the Cyberpunk route at this point, but without the cool augmentation stuff. Just the Megacorp bullshit.
Would be? We’re there, boss.
Yeah in parts of the UK (largely England) water is privatised, and that includes sewage. You can imagine that goes swimmingly for everyone involved, especially if you like swimming in untreated human shit when you visit a river, or the regulator doing nothing about these people hiking your bills to pay their senior management higher.
Private water monopolies all belong in hell, largely because there’s no aquatic environments there for them to poison.
Not by choice.
God, this comic fits sooo often. It’s sad.
“Then I shall leave the society!”
“You can’t, we’ll arrest you!”
I so often see absolutely misinformed takes like this post, for which this comic is always so relevant. I hope in my heart of hearts that this is just children who don’t yet know better yet.
Lol true. Compare sewage to electricity.
Imagine having to pay your monthly Shit bill.
At least where I live (US), sewage is included in the water bill, and the cost of sewage is 4x the cost of the water it came from. Partly because the public service commission neglected sewer maintenance for 100 years to the point that the EPA stepped in and told them to fix it. Now they’re doing a billion dollars of pipe replacement.
Yeah same in the UK. The sewage costs are in your water bill.
Sounds like a real shitty situation
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I would be pissed off.
Better to be pissed off than pissed on, at least
I do have to pay for sewage service.
We 100% do. Either by taxes to a county, a private sewage company, or by having someone come to empty your local sewage tank.
Unless you’re putting your shit through a sandbed/rock chest.
In the UK it is. Sewage is routinely dumped on beaches and in rivers as a result to boost shareholder profits.
In response to this I support jury nullification to anyone who causes any harm to CEOs or execs of sewage companies.
I was looking for this comment. Obviously OOP doesn’t keep up with UK news.
How the heck did y’all take the Ethernet, and create WWW protocols under Thatcher?‽?‽
they did it in switzerland
Tim Berners-Lee was working at CERN in Switzerland when he invented WWW.
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That would stink
Posting this on an app that emerged from a ‘free’ market does not invalidate the point about critical civil infrastructure.
Sewage systemc are highly important. Brainfart apps are not. Both can coexist.
Assholes pointing out someone participates on what’s being criticized are no fun anymore. They’ve never been.
Shhh!
Yeah, well, around my parts it was in time to be a Jewish conspiracy…
“The Warsaw Sewer System as a Tool of Judaism and Quackery aimed at destroying Polish agriculture and exterminating the Slavic population along the Vistula River”For real? Conspiracies in 1800 were wild
Actually, US Military Technology is almost exclusively private contractors. US Universities, like Stanford Research Institute and other ones to first build such a network, are the same way. So Internet and especially modern Telecoms version of it are the result of free market. There is a reason it wasnt invented in the USSR.
So… Planned economies at a small scale created the Ethernet. There’s a reason we didn’t invent the WWW. Thatcher must have missed some shit for that to have happened.
This post made by the “Never had to deal with rural septic service” gang
I have a septic tank, so I don’t have to imagine too hard.
Self hosting is always the best way to go.
