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  • It depends on

    1. Where you are in the world.
    2. If you’re talking about mobile or home internet (or both)
    3. What provider you have.

    In the states, I’ve never hit a wall of any kind on my home internet. I’m on fiber now, but when I was on cable it was the same, in several different states. In general, as soon as one of the (usually only two, because USA broadband monopolies yay!) providers for the area tried to implement some kind of cap, everyone in the area just jumped onto the other provider and the cap eventually went away because they were hemorrhaging customers.

    For mobile, its vastly different. There are only a couple cell providers in the whole united states that actually offer uncapped unlimited data, and both of those still come with stipulations, usually things like “During peak hours your bandwidth may be throttled” or something similar. They also cost $80 to $100+ per month. Most cell providers in the states throttle you hard when you go over a certain cap, usually 15-30gb depending on the provider, and what kind of contract you got. You can still connect, but you’re now running at 256kbs or something terrible. So technically, its still unlimited, just useless until next month when your cap refreshes.



  • Our two-party system ensures that as long as one party puts up the worst candidate imaginable we have no choice but to vote for the other. It’s only in times where both candidates are at least average that we can afford to split our votes and potentially elect a candidate from a third, smaller, party. There aren’t enough, or any, protections on our electoral system to keep the two main parties from doing everything they can to hold power, since after all, they would have to be the ones to approve such protections.

    Every election year I see people talk about voting for “better candidates” or third party candidates, and I just roll my eyes because our system is working exactly as the two parties intend, and it’s institutionalized to the point where there isnt really any way to change it, short of armed insurrection. I always want to ask if that’s what they are suggesting.