Several of ASAP's video have a lo-fi retro vibe, or specific effects such as simulating stuff like a mpeg a/v corruption, check out A$AP Mob - Yamborghini High (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt7gP_IW-1w)

This reads as if you've literally never consumed anything about Western history

You have to explicitly download these. Just don't do that.

Welcome to Planet Earth

The literal article that is the sole focus of this entire thread?

Where I live in Colorado there is literally no cell coverage by any cellular provider. No 5/4/or 3G coverage in miles in any direction while outside and no matter how far up the mountain behind my house I climb.

Their maps claim there is coverage, but there is not, and they don't really care that its not true.

You would be surprised how much people in extremely rural areas are being gouged for really crappy internet.

I have a place less than an hour from Denver and without Starlink there are many, many people on extremely bad, oversubscribed 1Mbit DSL at the end of some gnarly POPs.

There are sometimes local ISPs that provide p2p wifi in extremely limited areas (see: rich neighborhoods) and its fine but for 20/10 you're paying similar prices or more than Starlink for something that's less reliable.

But 56k dialup (actual speed more like 25k) is too slow to load an https certificate before most sites time out. You aren't going to be able to load google.com

You'll notice I didn't mention dialup at all in my comment.

I believe the individual was speculating that the volcano itself could be outputting large, random amounts of CO2 which could be tainting its readings.

Which would be pretty obvious in the chart in the article, if it were the case.

There's no use to interviewing someone who doesn't want to participate, which is probably why nobody follows up.

Not a rug pull. Just use it. If you like it and the price is too high. Don't pay it. What is the problem? Are you afraid that you'll like the feature so much that you'll pay whatever the cost?