[ACCount37]

In a perfect world, everyone is perfectly knowledgeable and prepared for any eventuality and nothing bad and unexpected ever happens at all.

May I remind you what world are we living in?

Denying emergency comms to people who didn't buy specialized hardware because "they should have prepared better" sounds like social darwinism to me.

Especially in an age when everyone has in their pocket a smartphone that's crammed full of advanced RF tech. Starlink has Direct to Cell on new sats, iPhones can use GEO satcom - what's your excuse?

[defrost]

> what's your excuse?

I fetch idiots out of remote areas.

With or without Starlink, they're unprepared.

People that are prepared for remote areas have been getting by without it for millennia.

What's you're actual on the ground experience here?

[ACCount37]

So, you want to save people, but you also want people who were not "prepared for remote areas" to just die somewhere, out of contact and out of your sight, and you also want to bitch about how stupid and unprepared they were?

That sure is a funny way of doing things.