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Good!!! I just finished porting my number off of T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLi
by xerox13ster 2y ago
Good!!! I just finished porting my number off of T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLink; I don't want to support a man advocating for my erasure because he's mad at his daughter for disowning him. I made it explicitly clear why I was cancelling, citing Elon and StarLink
by name.
Glad to see others participating in the "free" market and "voting with our wallets" before that ends up being the only way we can vote. Even more glad Slim is costing him billions compared to my pennies.
- blastonico 2y ago[flagged]
- xerox13ster 2y agoThey're gonna come for me anyway. Better than my communications going through his network. Maybe if enough people cite his behavior when cancelling T-Mobile will back off working with him, and he'll lose even more money.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- jfaulken 2y agoPolitics, I know, but: I guess he just missed the part where Slim is dismantling his country for profit. Oh yeah and literally a Nazi.
- tdeck 2y agoThese seem like more reasons to celebrate the end of a partnership between two oligarchs. May it cost them both money in the end.
- ziddoap 2y ago>dismantling his country for profit Wow, that certainly sounds familiar.
- rayiner 2y agoProfoundly inverted sense of morality. Don’t know what can be done about it.
- daveguy 2y agoelon lost a contract. At this point most people consider that a good thing, since he is trying to sow chaos in the US government for little to no benefit to the US or anywhere else except his wallet. And he is enabling the little dictator. That doesn't mean you support the person who pulled the contract. You can scream MDS all you want. Most people are done with the meme garbage.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
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- anigbrowl 2y agoTop shelf question-begging there, counselor.
- rayiner 2y ago[flagged]
- anigbrowl 2y agoCivil servants don't vote for the party that constantly lies about and shits on them? Astonishing. Nor was I aware that the ABA was part of the government. It's this sort of high quality analysis that keeps me coming back to HN.
- daveguy 2y agoThinking that everyone in a federal job or benefitting from those big bad grants are all in one party is some massive ignorance that takes a lot of brainwashing on right wing media to accomplish. They won't understand until it affects someone they know. By then musk will have diverted a lot of spending to his own companies with the doge fraud.
- all2 2y agoCurious about what this is about. I don't pay very close attention to the news cycle.
- ziddoap 2y agoI assume they are referring to this partnership: https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-starlink-beta-open-for-all-carriers https://www.t-mobile.com/news/network/t-mobile-starlink-beta... "T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) introduced the next big thing in wireless — T-Mobile Starlink — to tens of millions of football fans. Now in public beta, this breakthrough service, developed in partnership with Starlink [...]"
- all2 2y agoI got that part. It was the "wants to eliminate my people" part I'm missing. Is Musk talking genocide?
- lepus 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_erasure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queer_erasure
- all2 2y agoAh, yeah, he's making the 'this is mental illness' argument that has been a mainstay in psychology for the last century or so. Mainstream acceptance was slow up until the last 10 years or so. I doubt he'll succeed in his efforts. I don't think he cares as much as the people he's targeting care.
- bainganbharta 2y ago[flagged]
- alwa 2y agoI have yet to meet a person who regrets having successfully weaned themselves off the news-cycle dopamine treadmill. If anything, I find that they tend to be better informed and more thoughtful than they were when they wasted cycles on the carnival. Might just be me though.
- marcuschong 2y agoIt would be amazing if Elon became recognized as the toxic figure that he is, and that had real economic impact on his companies.
- marcuschong 2y agoI do wonder though, when I see so many famous people on Joe Rogan, for example, if the world isn't pass that somehow. Remember Neil Young as the absolutely solitary voice trying to pressure Spotify? It doesn't matter if you think Rogan should be boycotted; there are people that clearly should be doing it, to be honest with their own values, but aren't. Edit: small correction.
- saturn8601 2y agoSince Trump started his term, Rogan has fallen from the top podcast in the charts to number two with a 32% drop in downloads over the past month. I guess its something?
- LanceJones 2y ago[flagged]
- Larrikin 2y agoLots of people wish for the failures of profitable businesses. The sooner the better for us to be off oil the better for the planet. The slave trade employed many people and was extremely profitable. There's no reason to care about Starlink being successful.
- AngryData 2y agoWhy not? The entire point of market economics is to make that not a problem and leave room for other potentially better companies to take the place of worse ones. He obviously is a negative influence for the business as a whole even if he stayed out of politics, just the fact that he tries to pull so much money/value out of those businesses for personal gain has a negative effect on how efficient and beneficial to consumers those businesses can be.
- LanceJones 2y ago[flagged]
- huang_chung 2y ago[flagged]
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- fragmede 2y agonot sure why you read "irrational ragequit" into it. Calmly telling the CSA, who may or may not be in the Philippines, what to note down as cancellation reason: Other - Elon Musk, gets stuffed into a database and then bubbles up in internal reports on a pie chart of reasons so if enough other people also cite that reason, it becomes seen.
- huang_chung 2y agoThis is why, OP said mid-superBowl: > T-Mobile since I canceled my service with them mid-Superbowl when I learned they were collaborating with StarLink That implies spur of the moment, emotional response. You are watching the Super Bowl one minute, you see a commercial for T-Mobile, then immediately call to cancel your service in anger? If it happened at all - you must port before cancelling, or lose the number
- diego_sandoval 2y ago> a man advocating for my erasure What do you mean?
- spankalee 2y ago[flagged]