Yeah where I live, we don't even have separate recycling bins for presorting, the garbage company decided it's more efficient to just let everyone throw all their waste into one bin and do the sorting themselves.

It would be a private internet if anything were actually hosted on those nodes. At best it's a private peer exchange in the making, with the caveat that the available bandwidth of ISL with Starlink v2-mini constitutes only about 5% the carrying capacity of an individual Starlink ground-sat-ground relay, meaning we're not at the point that other ISPs would see a performance benefit to routing traffic via Starlink as opposed to terrestrial undersea cable (that irresponsible/malicious countries can just drag an anchor across, hint hint CHINA). I'd expect the full size Starlink v2 satellites launched by Starship to improve that by adding more ISL per satellite so that it functions more like a mesh network across orbital planes as opposed to only bridging with the previous and next satellites in the same orbital plane.

If you expect to get value from your $, never buy the bleeding edge product. Also, there's no compelling reason to buy this product...at all. You can fully expect Apple to be dropping the price soon.

We'll have to ask them. I suspect denial of decent council.

Out of office by the time the Maoist junta got going?

The conservative view (at least nominally) is to let you manage your own life, with special support for those conceived, but as yet unborn.