 Received an automated txt on one of my phones that from 2024 all of Aotearoa New Zealand will have mobile coverage, thanks to a "collaboration with SpaceX" (Starlink). I'm saddened not only because Starlink is the orbital overreach of a mad king, but bc we're about to lose our offline worlds - deep valleys where one can walk for days off grid. The centering of being involuntarily un-contactable, left solely with what you carry & know, of being defaulted to animal in an indifferent landscape 5 comments
@TimWardCam Indeed never said all. I have friends that do precisely that, and in the farming area I grew up in that is common also. I'm more talking about the bush - rainforests like of Te Uruwera, Tararua, and many places down south. Try to spend as little time on farms as possible tbh!  @JulianOliver same deal for sailors... now ppl can go anchor in a beautiful secluded anchorage far from cities and everyone... and still watch Netflix.. .>_>. Constantly filling quiet with noise. @rek Gave me a thump in the chest to read that. We're on the same page 100%. Netflix at a campsite deep in a rainforest, Instagram selfies, TikTok and epic fail vids on YT around the campfire.. I just can't |
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@JulianOliver Not *all* those NZ deep valleys are completely without communication - eg some farmers plant VHF relay stations on the mountaintops so that they've got communication with their family and workers up and down the farm.