No, I'd never heard of that until that wikipedia entry.
Either my entire past has been a fever dream, or my entire future will be.
Nougat
joined 8 months ago
What the actual fuck.
Why is it all of a sudden "Spirit Halloween"? Wasn't it "Spirit of Halloween"?
NCTA CEO Michael Powell claimed during a January 2024 hearing that "a consumer may easily misunderstand the consequences of canceling and it may be imperative that they learn about better options" ...
Perhaps the consumer has "learn[ed] about better options" at another company, or that a "better option" for them is to not purchase the service at all from anyone. I'm sure the ... ::flips pages:: ... cable company is offering a completely holistic assessment of the consumer's needs to help them make the best decision for themselves, right?
...and that the rule's disclosure and consent requirements raise "First Amendment issues."
"It is our First Amendment right to browbeat people into ~~not being our customers anymore!~~ staying as our customers when they tell us they don't want to be!"
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On the "worst things you can do on the internet" scale. Been seeing that ramping up over the last couple of days.
(I'm not the person you were initially responding to.)
Where does "quoting sources" and "stating facts" rank on that scale?
Comments on the article say that it's not true, and new Kindles work exactly the way old ones do.
Cool, do the electoral college next.
No idea what it was before, but it's still propaganda, whether intentional or not.
No, I don't think phone books should be illegal.
Didn’t Reddit do exactly this? Isn’t that why I’m here?