My 14’ trailer, build out to live in it, and my truck to tow it combined cost less than what’s in the OP.

I see them around the US as well. But, not many. They’re really expensive relative a common domestic 4WD van.

Realism would be the blue/grey smoke of a blown head gasket.

I went back out with my flashlight and saw the same hundreds of eyes. Fucking gators.

Sober, at night, in the desert: Hundreds of eyes, like stars in the sky. Fucking spiders.

Mushrooms can give you a pretty bad trip as well,

I agree.

at least it doesn’t last as long as acid.

Also, one can also mitigate the effects with induced vomiting, alcohol, or sleep. A batch of shrooms never has byproducts or laced drugs. If they’re particularly strong then grind them up, weigh doses, and encapsulate.

I took my last dose of LSD more than twenty years ago. Everyone shouldn’t choose as I do because they’re not me. My only intent is people make wiser choices.

My advice for either one is make sure you have people around that you love and trust - being alone or being with strangers can be bad news.

Far more important than squabbles over which one is better to start with. I was an adolescent that took what was in front of me while back of car camping with friends, a few acting as babysitters.

If you had relatively clean LSD and mushrooms, both of which you’d sampled, which would you recommend the hypothetical beginner I’d addressed?

If it’s LSD then something’s fucked in your supply or you’re a unique personality that doesn’t realize they’re different from the vast majority of others in some fundamental way.

I can definitely understand how some people would prefer LSD afterwards, with experience. I’d advise that person that long term LSD usage, even microdosing for performance enhancement, will definitely have permanent effects upon their psyche. Maybe good, maybe bad. Future them will decide.

Listen up, buster, I don’t recommend hardcore psychedelics to the curious beginner. Neither should you. Start with mushrooms. Easier access anyhow.

For example, a hypothetical, in low light the LSD has synapses firing so fast that one is very aware of every presence around them. But, everyone is a shadowy monster with glowing eyes. The color of their eye glow indicates their instentaneous level of hostility.

The distortion of perception brings the subconscious to awareness. This is why hallucinogenics can sometimes be therapeutic. But, as the dose increases, so does the effect of the subconscious. Take too much and the perceptions no longer have much basis in reality.

If anyone’s reading this and curious, don’t take LSD. There’s no escape from a bad trip. Try mushrooms instead. I keep a little around for when my head can’t reason out what the fuck my heart and ego are choosing.

Yes. But, I’m sure the visuals didn’t help.

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As soon as those decades old and severely degraded copper lines are replaced in all of those old neighborhoods where fiber is slowest to roll out, DSL can provide a higher cost and subpar service on a deprecated standard. That’s exactly what we need with a surplus of capacity on modern hardware already deployed in the field.

We’ll all have broadband in no time if they’d just listen to you.

I’m not really following

That’s because the truth sucks and your brain is rejecting it in defense of your mental health.

500 year old think tank

force multiplier

There’s one. What else?

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The entire cellular network, particularly T-Mo 5G unlimited, would put it to shame. If one wants better then Starlink.

The way to do wireless would be to form a neighborhood ISP, put up a tower, then wireless P2P to each home. I’ve seen it in a few places. More common is citywide wifi.

I do know that AT&T has a fiber line that runs through my neighborhood, yet I can’t get fiber internet

The local exchange carriers (LECs) typically change from plain olds telephone system (POTS) to fiber at the neighborhood level. Coax carriers also.

Fiber to the neighborhood is already there. It’s not hard to run a line across a neighborhood to connect whatever on either side.

The difficult part is getting from a neighborhood connection to each individual home. It’s a flower pot install on each property, all connected together underground, and it can’t fuck with gas, water, sewer, etc.

Yeah. That’s wasn’t very clear. The USDA has been funding and providing loans for rural broadband. About $1b, IIRC.

Thanks for the pointing that out.

free market economy where private sector funds investment

If that’s how it actually worked we might accept it. But, today there’s little distinction between public and private: Corporations own our government.

Hamilton built the framework. It’s been foxes since John Adams.

We did the same for urban fiber. It’s never materialized, either. And, the USDA has been providing funding and loans for rural broadband for quite awhile.