From: -hh <recscuba_google@huntzinger.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.trump,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: When Liberals Are Too Chicken Shit To Look Upon Answers To Their
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:40:32 -0400
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 7/27/25 16:29, AlleyCat wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:01:19 -0700, Alan says...
>>
>> <https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-public-broadcasting-cuts-rural-communities-1.7587683>
>
> So fucking what? You can't turn the radio dial a 10th of a turn without
> picking up a radio station anymore. It's not like the 70s
> and before, dumb ass. Radio is big now.
Not in rural areas. AM radio stations peaked in 1990, as the commercial
industry shifted to FM band for better fidelity.
And a trade-off of going from AM to FM was reduced audience sizes which
increased operating costs due to shorter reception range: AM had useful
ranges of ~100 miles, whereas FM is half of that, so one FM station
covers roughly 1/4 the area of what an AM station did. The result is
that more rural regions of the US are increasingly radio deserts.
>>> WHO doesn't have a smartphone which usually has an Emergency notice
>>> app on it?
>>
>> I would bet heavily lots of people.
>
> Fuck, you're a special kind of stupid. The POOREST of the poor
> ALWAYS have smartphones. It might be ALL they have, but they have
> them.
And the celltower infrastructure out in the boonies ... is what?
> When I lived in Mississippi, the dirt poorest walking down the road,
> was always yapping away on a smartphone.
I learned to be aware of where I'd travel in the midwest, because the
cellphone towers were mostly in towns and along the major highways.
That lack of coverage surprised me the first time that I went into some
"backwoods" at one facility in MO and found that I lost both CDMA
(Verizon) and GSM (AT&T) reception.
Since then, I've learned to check reception when going further afield
and to put my phone into "airplane mode" to not drain its battery.
-hh