Funny-Education2496 t1_iu494mr wrote on October 28, 2022 at 1:13 PM

Reply to Rural areas to get $759M in grants for high-speed internet by Vailhem

I'm all in favor of this, but the whole point of Starlink is to accomplish exactly this. Why not break off a piece of this grant and use it to contract Starlink to provide dishes to these regions.

Funny-Education2496 t1_iu3yo72 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 11:39 AM

Reply to The Great People Shortage is coming — and it's going to cause global economic chaos | Researchers predict that the world's population will decline in the next 40 years due to declining birth rates — and it will cause a massive shortage of workers. by Shelfrock77

Except for the ever increasing number of increasingly sophisticated, artificially intelligent robots who will be able to do just about everything.

Funny-Education2496 t1_ittr6bf wrote on October 26, 2022 at 6:40 AM

Reply to Can someone explain the ethics of testing potentially life saving medication? by beatleboy07

I believe one of the measures that Donald Trump implemented at the federal level when he was president was the Right to Try. Under this rule, terminally ill patients have the right to access experimental therapies (drugs, technologies, etc.) which have not yet been approved by the FDA. I think this was a huge victory for dying people because at the rate at which medicine is advancing, I'm sure a good many of these as yet unapproved therapies will turn out to be effective.