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foreverobamaon FDA says marijuana has a legitimate medicinal purpose

Legalize.

foreverobamaon NASA has reestablished full communications with Voyager 2

The Voyager missions are simply incredible. Definitely worth reading up on if you're not familiar!

foreverobamaon The Twitter API is now effectively unmaintained

What's really absurd is that people are still using that platform at all.

foreverobamaon UT-Austin blocks access to TikTok on campus Wi-Fi networks

Nothing "good" about this move. It's a nothing burger. Everyone's phone literally tracks them with every other app, basically in the same way. Hell, the cell phone carriers are even tracking you, along with the U.S. government. So yeah, great job removing tiktok which ultimately does nothing for your opsec or privacy.

It's completely and utterly political. Just like banning twitter would be, although that actually has more merit than the banning of tiktok.

Sorry to burst your bubble.

foreverobamaon 100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth

You're dreaming, buddy. 5G can't even be successfully utilized in the richest nation on earth (U.S.). This brand new tech is decades from customer applications. Cool display of technology, but I won't get excited over something that won't improve the lives of anyone except the military industrial complex and its benefactors while internet services and cell services continue to degrade every year.

foreverobamaon 100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth

Exactly. Which is why I'm always less than enthused by articles such as this. With the telecommunications industry, it seems breakthroughs such as this never make their way to the average or even slightly high-end user such as myself.

Wake me when telecommunications industry gets their shit together.

foreverobamaon 100 Gbps achieved from space to Earth

And yet here in 2022 cell reception quality is quite literally worse than it was in 2010. Telecommunications industry is really baffling at times. Just like when people were excited for 5G, I'm very skeptical that this technology will ever actually improve our lives in the short to medium term.

Overall, services across the board seem to be worse than they were 10 years ago. And yet the tech is certainly more advanced. Really disappointed as a whole with the telecommunications industry. Maybe that's the field I should have focused more on, as they seem to be struggling to improve things even with technological breakthroughs such as this.

Just a shame.

foreverobamaon The Twitter Files

So basically nothing new. Elon just trying to distract after the Ye thing.

People just need to move on. Twitter is such a waste of your time.