I agree. I've been a T-Mobile customer since they were called VoiceStream. Up until [what feels like] five years ago, I LOVED them. Like, I almost felt an allegiance toward them, because they were one of the few cool companies that actually seemed to care about customer experience.

But, new leadership --> new direction, no more US call centers, the "forever plan" was bullshit... Now, I fucking hate them.

Although, I do have to admit, while I was spending time in the High Uintah mountains this past week, it was awesome getting 15 Mbps from my free Starlink access. But, that's more thanks to Starlink than T-Mobile -- at least, as far as I'm willing to attribute.

At one time, in what seems like 6 lifetimes ago, taking your mobile phone to the toilet appeared perverted to most.

I mean it still does to me, but i feel like i am in the minority these days....

Such a low slash ID for such a young child.

And for some reason, Discord went to Klipy...?

Yep, Thunderbird. It's awesome, and one of the few OSS projects I've actually donated to.

So far, you're right. But, why change the subject to NYC? Probably because you know the same can't be said for the state in question. California HAS had a mass ex-migration wealthy business leaders and owners over the past few years.

...divorced from the grinding reality of regular folks.

What's the grinding reality of regular folks? I worked two jobs for years to put myself through college, got a job as an electrical engineer / firmware engineer (I've moved around a lot, working for some stable and some startup companies). I own a house and two cars, and work ~8 hours a day. Am I regular folk? Is my reality "grinding"?

I was able to buy a few shares of SPCX in the IPO, just for the hell of it. Now, as business builds, and Elon gets ever richer, so will I (a little). And, this is despite the fact that, YES, I AM regular folk.

Extending his wealth increases what he is capable of

YES

and deprives the rest of us the opportunity to do likewise.

NO, that's retarded.

autonomous killing robots are a bad idea because there is nothing to stop them from killing you next.
  killing indiscriminately is a war crime. just because the russians do plenty o war crimes does not make it ok for the other side to do them.

k but its maybe not worth unleashing literal terminators.

should the russians be nuked? survey says probably not. rules of war are like the prime directive. mostly people have to follow it to remain civilized.

Hmm. Especially in light of that, I think my comment still stands. :)

...1080 pixel monitors...

And you think you're going to be a tech journalist? Yeah, I guess that tracks.

Call me when it works with all phone apps and all SMS apps and all contacts apps.

I will, but will you take the call?

Hence the third sentence in my post.

They hate government meddling when they don't control government. Just like they hate government spending when they don't get to choose where the money is spent.

Correct on both counts. This is known as the concept of Government by the people. Obviously, it's a concept lost in today's world, but it's a worthy principle to work back toward.