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Comment Old men yelling at clouds (Score 2) 60

by blackfire12 on Friday June 30, 2023 @04:52PM (#63647174) Attached to: The Man Who Broke Bowling

As an avid, amateur bowler who regularly goes to league, I think two handed bowling is completely fine. The people that don't like two handed or complain are your classic boomers (literally) who don't like to see change. Even though he bowls two handed, Jason Belmonte is still incredibly skilled and earned his accolades. Just using two hands doesn't somehow make the sport any easier or a person better. It's just a style and you still need to understand the game and how it's played in order to do well. There's other reasons to dislike Belmonte and it's mostly with the other antics he's been caught doing. See the Belmonte and Sean Rash incident.

Comment Cached comments (Score 1) 308

by blackfire12 on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:33PM (#63595780) Attached to: Reddit is Crashing Because of the Growing Subreddit Blackout

At least with the creepy and hilarious DuckDuckGo commercial about google, you can still view cached reddit comments.

Verizon's New Plans Make Sense To Nobody Except Verizon (theverge.com) 32

Posted by msmash on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @06:40PM from the what's-in-a-name? dept.

An anonymous reader shares a report: Hey, did you hear? Verizon has incredibly, out of the goodness of its heart, revealed new phone plans that don't include "bloated" service bundles. How thoughtful! There's just one catch: they're kinda less expensive, except not really, because things that used to be included are now an extra $10 per month each.

On the surface, the new plans sound simpler than the current Get More, Play More, etc. There are two options -- an expensive one and a bit less expensive one -- and you add the extra services you want, like the Disney / Hulu bundle or Apple Music Family a la carte. That's nice in theory, but if you're switching from one of the current unlimited plans, it's very likely you'll need to pay more if you want the same things you used to get included in your monthly rate. [...] On top of all that, these plans are just plain confusing. There's an old plan called "Welcome Unlimited" and a new plan called "Unlimited Welcome." Great, makes perfect sense. Also, Verizon is still playing its cute little game of not including "Ultra Wideband" mid-band 5G on its lower-tier plan, only the much slower "Nationwide" version, which is largely just LTE dressed up as 5G.

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