Yes. For drinking the telecoms KoolAide in the first place. Unfortunately, nobody could have foreseen cellular networks "going dark" in rural areas upon the cutover to 4/5G. Right where the utility would most depend on wireless meter reading.

... is always lying to me. In that sense, it's not much different than my wife. So I don't really see a problem with such relationships.

... my local utility doesn't make me suffer through a major inclement weather event in order to experience an outage.

Just a few extra people plugging in their Teslas is all it takes.

... it resembles a cat.

That sort of misses the whole "involuntary" part of the definition.

"She's got huge tracts of land!"

That's the 1934 legislation (also included telephony). Since then, modified by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to include broadband. And the beloved CDA (Section 230).

Yandex image search left Google in the dust some time ago.

How about this?

Just try to pry that electronic fidget toy out of zoomers hands and watch the ensuing crying and blubbering.

If you are a cellular operator, you should. A few decades ago, our local utility started a switch over from their own proprietary mesh meter reading network to a 2G/3G GPRS system. They got a ways into switching a few hundred thousand meters over when they got the AT&T memo: We're switching to 4G/5G. They went back and reinstalled their mesh network. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me again, shame on me.

AT&Ts law enforcement network was even worse. They conned our region's police forces to switch over to FirstNet. Which they did for data, but not voice. Now the cops can't connect to their departments servers half the time. They have a dedicated (voice) channel for department IT problems.

I would be surprised if they haven't already taken the x-ray imager onboard. Just to check out the background noise level. As to the size and stability of the source and imager, my dentist uses a source about the size of a large cordless drill. Handheld, the pulse is (evidently) short enough to make hand tremors a non issue.

... and fire Zuckerberg.

Think about it. With the potential for a bunch of lawsuits over such policies, he's likely to cause the company to suffer much greater losses than some employees taking extra PTO.

You can't even get 20,000 economists to agree on anything. If you laid 50,000 economists end to end, they'd all be pointing in different directions. I'm not even certain that there are even 6,000,000 economists alive today.

However, there are more AI researchers than atoms in this Universe.

They're all 'bots.