Z & Elon
Spare me their Twitter bullshit
Z invites Elon to Kyiv. Ugh.
Maybe The Operator can arrange the visit. Sean Penn can accompany. With Imagine Dragons. They can all sing Carol of the Bells after Klitschko erects the 12-meter tall diesel-generator powered Xmas tree next week.
Some time ago, before Putin tried to decapitate Kyiv, Ukraine announced that every community with a hundred potential broadband subscribers would have ADSL brought to them. Months later my local mairie in Semihory snapped into action by putting a petition on its reception desk. But in a village where the median age is about seventy, and where there are probably more hatchets than computers, and where no one ever goes to the селсовет, there was no mad rush to sign up. So I had to do it myself.
For years I tried to get satellite to work, but the rates were always ridiculous (consumption-wise, analogous to a hundred bucks for a bowl of tapwater), and while my Fijitsu could theoretically be configu…