If I were Zachary Cohn here, I'd try to cut a deal with my neighbor.

Upgrade neighbor's Internet to something higher speed, on a business connection, and ideally with two IPs.
Pay for a tech to come out, and split the connection in two. One IP for the neighbor, one for Zachary.
Run a cable (or directional wireless) from the neighbor to Zachary's house.

Pay the neighbor $1000 or so for the hassle of the initial setup, then half the cost of his Internet each month.

Done!

Alternatively, dig yourself. Find out from Comcast *exactly* where they want the cabling. Hire someone to dig and place a line of conduit. Comcast then just needs to run the line through the conduit. Simple and easy. And likely MUCH cheaper than $27k. I've seen people do this with Comcast and other ISPs.

My fiber optic provider in semi-rural Indiana did exactly that. Fiber optic cable ran from the street to my house, attached via power poles. Then they draped the cable across the yard, drilled a hole into the wooden frame of a 2nd story window (I selected the ingress point), and I had a connection.

Worked great for me, and no digging.

Except that the science has repeated lied over the past year and a half. And been caught lying, again and again. E.g., covering up for China, lying about the numbers on cases/deaths/death rates for those with or without comorbidities, pushing for otherwise illegal government/corporate autocracy, etc.

I still vaccinated myself, but it's very rational not to trust these experts here. The experts are compromised and have their own agendas beyond transparency and truth.

And for anyone who has had Covid, there's no good reason to get a vaccine at all. And there are *lots* of those people. Natural immunity appears -- according to the science! -- to provide better protection than the vaccines.

I've seen that NIC issue before, but it was a manufacturer issue. If manufacturers stop providing drivers for older hardware on newer versions of Windows, that's not really Microsoft's fault.

When it's very common hardware (looking at you Broadcom...), however, it's a really shitty thing to do.

Maybe not the most ethical, but it's certainly rational if managers are forced to fire some % on an annual basis.

It's actually really difficult to buy a new dumb TV anymore. They just aren't around.

But just because your TV is "smart" doesn't mean you have to use those features. Get a Roku, Amazon Fire stick, whatever, and run your smart TV apps from that instead. It will likely run better and be more secure.

Anyway, you'll probably keep your TV for at least 8-10 years assuming it doesn't break. There's zero chance that the smart TV features will continue working past 3-4 years. TV manufacturers don't keep pushing firmware updates much past 2 years, and at some point, the measly hardware behind it is going to be completely obsolete anyway.

Burning during the day, freezing you ass off at night.

I take this as basically the Petaluma city council hates its citizens and wants to force them to pay more for gasoline and diesel.

They're artificially restricting the number of gas stations, restricting competition. This will almost certainly lead to higher gas prices in Petaluma vs. its neighbors over time.

I'd love to know if current gas stations are heavy donors to city council members, or are related to city council members.

Moral of the story: build new gas stations just outside Petaluma city limits and then tell the city council to go perform self-copulation.

Cardlock stations also have no attendants, no bathrooms, no amenities, keeping their overhead/expenses very, very low.

They also sell almost exclusively to people with big trucks buying a LOT of gas or diesel per purchase.

Parler's argument on anti-trust is that AWS struck an illegal deal with Twitter. Parler is a growing competitor and threat to Twitter. (And it will be again, when it gets back online...)

"Last month, Defendant Amazon Web Services, Inc. (“AWS”) and the popular social media platform Twitter signed a multi-year deal so that AWS could support the daily delivery of millions of tweets. AWS currently provides that same service to Parler, a conservative microblogging alternative and competitor to Twitter," the filing reads.

"When Twitter announced two evenings ago that it was permanently banning President Trump from its platform, conservative users began to flee Twitter en masse for Parler. The exodus was so large that the next day, yesterday, Parler became the number one free app downloaded from Apple’s App Store.""

https://www.foxbusiness.com/te...

The President does have delayed prosecution, but not immunity. Standing DOJ procedure is that a sitting President cannot be prosecuted.

If that President is successfully impeached, resigns, his term ends, etc. -- then that President can be prosecuted.

This does not apply to others below the President. (Not sure on the VP. Might apply to him as well.)

The interface is a bit better and I haven't had problems with stability lately. It still has a bunch of ads that it didn't used to have.

I'm sticking with it -- it has better features than competing apps. I haven't found one I like better. I've tried -- the initial post IBM versions were really annoying. I found an old pre-IBM apk, turned off updates, and used that until Weather Underground finally blocked access through it.

So the new verison is usable now. But it's still not as good as the pre-IBM makeover version of the app.

The other Democratic candidates were crazies, neo-communists, devoid of charisma, tone deaf, obvious liars and fabulists, race hustlers, etc. -- or some combination of the above.

So Biden ended up being the last candidate standing. And he's a candidate nowhere in the league of Bill Clinton or Barack Obama, neither of whom I agreed with, but both were highly charismatic. Bill Clinton could also be practical and bipartisan at times.

I'm a Republican, but similar situations led to terrible Republican Presidential nominees as well: Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. Bush II was a bad candidate as well, but he was lucky enough to run against even worse Democratic candidates: the beta male and environmental extremist Al Gore, and the haughty, lying,and basically traitorous John Kerry.

Even if you take a pay cut, you still may be out ahead.

The costs of living in San Francisco/Silicon Valley/New York/Santa Monica/expensive tech areas are so astronomically high, that you can move somewhere far cheaper, take a 20% pay cut, and you are still better off.

I left San Jose for Indiana two years ago. And my finances are much, much better than previous.

And they had an easy alternative. If they think a movie or TV show in their vast catalog isn't family friendly, just put it on Hulu instead. Which they also own.

Instead, they covered up with an incredibly bad CGI hack job, and look like idiots.

Great job, Disney.