All the dickheads who said the concept of a national postal service has been made obsolete by the Internet are going to get a very rude awakening soon They are also going to find out that the exact same forces that ruined the USPS can and will also easily ruin the Internet
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We're kind of spoiled, with this ongoing assumption that bandwidth and storage just keeps getting cheaper and cheaper and cheaper over time -- Google confidently talking about more and more stuff getting "too cheap to meter" over time, throwing more and more shit onto the "cloud"
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I still don't actually think COVID-19 is likely to lead to a serious economic apocalypse where lights start going out worldwide But it looks a lot more *possible* than it did a while ago, especially if international relations break down and war looms on the horizon
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