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Re:Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shr... by kadoban on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:00PM (#24152335)
I mean the obvious solution is statehood, but that's currently impractical for political reasons. Maybe an accident of fate will allow it within some years.

Not that it would fix all woes even, but it'd be a good start.

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Re:Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shr... by toomuchtodo on Thursday August 13, 2020 @10:33PM (#24152563)
Agree statehood is the only fix, with a close second being NGO and similar efforts to get folks off the island to the mainland for better opportunities and quality of life. Anything else is a slow train wreck of despair over decades.
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Re:Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shr... by Vivtek on Friday August 14, 2020 @10:53AM (#24158683)
I live in Puerto Rico. Moving from here to the mainland is not a step up in quality of life, I can assure you.
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Re:Arecibo radio telescope goes dark after snapped cable shr... by toomuchtodo on Friday August 14, 2020 @11:07AM (#24158873)
That has not been the experience communicated to me by several Puerto Rican’s who relocated to central Florida. No work, crumbling infrastructure, and incompetent government was what I was told why they left.

To each their own (really; I wish you well if you have a good life there), but the emigration pattern is clear [1] [2].

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/21/us/puerto-rico-migration-data...

[2] https://nacla.org/news/2018/02/22/puerto-rico%E2%80%99s-fore...

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