Everyone knows opaque markets work the best. Brilliant display of regulatory skill from the party of fiscal responsibility.
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Gotta own those libs, right? /s
FUUUUCK I hate these "hologram" stock photos where the text isn't reversed. So I'm supposed to believe that the user is looking at a reversed image??
That's just how magical it is, the text flips for everyone reading it.
this is one that i directly appreciated. the transparent bottom-line pricing was refreshing.
In the European Union all ISPs market their connections based on maximum speed. However, the law requires them to meet at least 90% of that maximum advertised speed throughout the entire year (might slightly vary between countries), with some room for error. If they don't - easy lawsuit.
Internet is also usually extremely cheap. In my country you can get it as cheap as $8/month, with very good (>=500Mb/s download) connections rarely exceeding $25 USD monthly. Hell, you can get an 8Gb/s download cable for just a little over $40/month.
Europe always forgetting about the shareholders. How's the c suite going to afford their third yacht and their fourth mansion charging those prices?
$8 ?
Same here. Romania
I get 500Mbps for about 10 euro
cries in German
Canada, I can't get 500 but I can get 360Mbps for CAD83
Trump voters really voted to get scammed and a worst quality of life for everyone else lol. There is not one thing good this admin has done.
Republicans just want to hurt people. Even if it means hurting themselves. They just need to own a liberal and shed tears.
To be fair, they did increase the biodiversity of the reflecting pool
Let's see... They slowed down the war that they started in Iran. They released half of the Epstein files, just not the presumably 50% that directly implicate Trump. Trump fired Pam Bondi who he had appointed.
It's hard to think of anything good that they did that wasn't just toning down or backtracking of something bad that they had previously done.
The penny is gone. That was 30 years overdue.
I disagree, but that's just me apparently. It's not that I particularly liked pennies, but I definitely don't like companies rounding UP to the nearest nickel. And as for the pennies costing more to make than they're worth -- so what? Basically any government provided service or product costs taxpayer money. Also, change the penny to make it more cost effective?
Anyhow, what's done is done, and we're probably all poorer because of it. I've been poor -- it sucks but life goes on.
Kind of. With no unified plan or support to transition.
All you need is to stop considering pennies legal tender but require banks to still accept them for changing or depositing (but not giving them out anymore).
Then stores can handle them on a case by case basis if they want to or just say "sorry we're done with pennies".
Oh yeah, also send the mint a note telling them to stop producing pennies en masse.
Its literally just an abuse-manipulation tactic at that point.
Going overboard, then retreating back only slightly to give the false impression of being reasonable, when theyve already got what they want.
Throw it on the pile of shit that the public will never acknowledge, yes I know.
One of the only true unifying principles of all the horrors that have begun to crescendo from the right for the past 10 that I have pinned down is that all sides of it are ultimately just abuse and cult dynamics, which are really just advanced abuse
and hired TODD blanche, who is even more tied to EPSTEIN than bondi is. trump likely is keeping him close so he doesnt rat on trump down the line.
I don't want to disagree, but how about enabled the Charlie Kirk incident?
Wouldn't have had Charlie Kirk without Trump. Horribly not worth.
Nah. Had nothing directly to do with Trump. I say it's a wash.
But seriously, Trump voters need to think what that man has done to improve their lives in any way. I seriously can't think of a single thing.
They may still not say it out loud, but their first thought will be "he hurt those other people in various ways, so worth it to me."
Actual value for them... nope, can't think of anything.
Oh they do say it out loud...
And if people think this is just some outlier cherry-picked by the media - nope. I've been told by an inlaw conservative that maybe I did well under Biden or under Obama, but should not have - implication being - maybe Trump 2.0 will actively harm me, because that's what I deserve. Because I have a degree, because I'm liberal, because I don't vote for asshole idiots like Donvict, etc...
And that's not even getting into the kinds of conversations I've had with conservatives both IRL and online - they definitely wish harm on those that merely disagree with them, never mind people of different religions or skin colors.
They don't need to think at all, they get fed what they need to believe. Trump made America great and safe and wonderful. Everything bad happening is somehow Bidens fault. Or immigrants did it. Even if they get upset for some days, they keep crawling back to him. It's the worst toxic relationship ever.
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Jesus.
Yet another day in Trump‘s world of “how can I make everyone’s life shittier? how can I HURT literally everyone on the planet for no good reason?”
Another day of republican philosophy in practice: cause pain just because
Desperate people are easier to control
In any decent civilization, someone as evil and corrupt and stupid as Brendan Carr would be taken to a remote destination and beaten into a chunky soup
~~Federal Communications Comission~~ Fascist Cocksucker Center
even more reason to stop using American services.
ISPs routinely advertise prices much lower than those actually charged to consumers on their monthly bills.
I wonder if there is any other countries where you will not know how much you'll have to pay for internet until after you've signed a contract.
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