fucking AT&T, I have already had approximately 499 home internet outages with them this month and now I get hit with TWO rate increases on my wireless bill? First they want to cut the “paperless billing” discount from $10 to $5/month PER LINE, and then they’ve jacked the rate up on my plan by $2.50/month.
I’ve NEVER had a plan rate go UP before, usually they introduce new cheaper plans and just don’t tell you so you keep paying the old rate, this time they’re actually trying to get me to move to a new plan that is the “same price” … (except it doesn’t include HBO max anymore).
Fuck these fuckers, is there any reason I shouldn’t switch to mint mobile? wirecutter says they’re great and they’re about half the cost.
I talked to the AT&T retention people and basically told them “I would like to see everything stay exactly the same” and they basically said that they often can do things to keep custoemrs but the higher ups had told them no compromises on the old plan (they no longer own HBO so they are paying for that max subscription directly I guess) or the paperless billing (they want to draft a bank account instead of charge my card, I get that they pay something for the card processing but it’s $20/month they are charging me, they aren’t paying anything near that).
T-Mobile gives you a bunch of free shit like Netflix and Apple TV. Also free MLB and MLS league pass currently if you watch those. Definitely worth looking at if you’re planning to move networks.
I was watching a show on Netflix about Australian farmers training puppies to become working dogs, and noticed that when introducing each location where the farmers live, they (the Australian Broadcasting Corporation made it) captioned it with the name(s) of the aboriginal people who lived there.
Can you imagine the outrage if they did that here? Picture an establishing shot captioned “San Francisco, Ohlone land”, conservatives would lose their fucking minds oh my god.
Verizon has sucked lately for me too. Got my wife AT&T and her service is consistently so much better than mine. (I get a free cell phone through my job).
In Canada, for both sporting events and before the national anthem for children in the morning at school they say a few lines about land acknowledgements
It’s incredible how completely fucked twitter is right now if you’re trying to keep up on this superconductor, if you search for LK99, it’s almost all blue check techbros who are wildly hyping this into fantasyland, pranksters, and outright scams. It’s actively disinforming anyone who isn’t savvy enough to sift through the mountains of bullshit.