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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by p3rls on Sunday February 09, 2025 @11:41PM (#42997015)
Eh, their lives aren't at risk at the rates of actual blue collar professions like logging, roofing etc. and these jobs have lower prestige and benefits as well.

A little tax-payer funded training in the form of practice runs doesn't sound like a bad thing either.

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Re:Starlink and T-Mobile open satellite texting test to all ... by mint2 on Monday February 10, 2025 @01:03AM (#42997378)
SAR groups are often unpaid volunteers and at a minimum will be eating some of their weekend off to respond… unless those loggers are unpaid prison labor what you say is false.
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