They are not implying all Americans have poor internet, they are implying that most Americans have bad internet and are forced to use it due to non-competition.
Because we had net neutrality under Obama. And there’s lots of people who don’t know that. I’ve seen numerous posts back on Reddit and recently on lemmy saying corporate dems will never enact NN. When they did, and they are again. I’m glad the article mentions it. Because those history revisionists “both sides” groups are loud and prominent.
I remember it well. We just don’t need to add to the already polarized political atmosphere by making it Obama-era thing. I was then and still am a huge proponent of net neutrality.
I love that it was proven a vast majority of the public comments in favor of removing net neutrality laws were fake. But instead of just reverting the law back as a result of this discovery we get to fucking hope it doesn’t happen again while we try to apply the same fucking rules.
Why is the cost a problem. 12 mill might be a lot of money for like, some guy, but the government is responsible for the artifacts and deal with national budgets in the trillions.
If they dont want to pay for security storage and backups, send the peices back to their countries of origin. Maybe they can find some way of protecting history, cause England sure doesn’t want the responsibility
Of course not. People can’t be trusted to take care of their own historical artifacts. Britain will take better care of them. If they want to see it, they can just pay to fly across the world to see them. It’s surely better this way.
I get what you mean, like there’s definitely some stuff you can just look at a picture of it on the internet, but I guess for others it’s about the sense of space, connection, grouping, narrative, context etc that’s present with a well put together Museum or Gallery display.
Without all that, you’ve just got a car boot sale of random things - wheras the text, maps, illustrations, audio, video or 3d recreations etc that sits alongside - or simply the placement of things next to one another, or following through the room in a particular order is what really makes that stuff interesting.
Higgs is suspected to have taken uncategorized items and selling them on the e-commerce website eBay. One item worth $64,000 was offered for online auction for as little as $51 and listings for artifacts from the museum’s collection appeared online as early as 2016, according to a report in the Telegraph.
With all my respects if you repatriate them here in Mexico they will end up in some gangsters villa. The ministry of culture is weaker than their coked up limp dicks.
Lol that was my first thought when I read this too. Nonetheless, there’s zero chance of any of the historical artifacts being repatriated to their countries of origin now. It’s a big loss.
Why the fuck is anyone writing an article about $12M dollars?
Do people not understand what rich people make from passive investments? Literally just repurpose a single rich person’s passive investment and you can pay to digitize a library’s worth of artifacts every year for eternity.
Society is absolutely fucked in the head if anyone is allowed to build a yacht without getting crowbarred in the back of the calf while we’re considering whether or not “we can afford to pay” to preserve priceless historical artifacts.
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