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• On the post: Comcast President Realizes How Their Bullshit Prices/Fees Have Them Losing Customers

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 06 May, 2025 @ 11:03am

  That darn Xfinity...

  Feel assured stockholders, Cavanagh is taking on the major problems facing Xfinity! "One is price transparency..." They addressed transparency by rolling all of their fees into a single total, so the make-believe fees are hidden (including $29 for a sports package that doesn't include the ChiSox, Bulls or Blackhawks). Pretty great, right? "Make our price-to-value proposition clearer." So, they hiked rates +10% without improving a thing. Yes! Price-to-value is MUCH clearer, the value proposition is worse, but clearer.

• On the post: Federal Prosecutor Fires Off Letter To Medical Journals Asking About Their Policies On ‘Competing Viewpoints’

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2025 @ 10:31am

  Oh, that pesky science

  Our policy is to give preference to papers submitted by heroin addicts and people suffering from brain worms

• On the post: Report: Trump Reportedly To Do Away With IRS Direct File Program For No Discernible Reason

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2025 @ 09:47am

  That darn Elmo!

  While we're wringing our hands about conflicts of interest, perhaps the repubs could have a look-see into Elmo deciding which govt contracts are cut, then his sugar daddy awarding him gazillion$ in govt contracts.

• On the post: Democratic Senators Team Up With MAGA To Hand Trump A Censorship Machine

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 21 Mar, 2025 @ 05:29pm

  That Darn Durbin

  When will these lame-ass Dems read the room? The base is fed up with the "moderate" Dems that don't get the Repubs' only agenda is to give Trump more power.

• On the post: Yet Another Columnist Claims Bluesky Is A Liberal Echo Chamber Because Its Users Keeping Kicking Nazis Out Of The Bar

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 20 Mar, 2025 @ 03:40pm

  We have to extort companies or they won

  I’ll admit it. I left the twit because it was making me feel intellectually inferior. To know any argument I might advance could be crushed with just a few keystrokes in reply by astute commenters such as Catturd or whoever translates Ultra MAGA Trump Gal’s thoughts from the original hillbilly gibberish. And others, I suspect, have some sort of relationship with Putin. Just a guess.

• On the post: Donald Trump Backs His Co-President; Says Attacks On Tesla Dealerships Will Be Treated As ‘Terrorism’

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2025 @ 10:15am

  That darn Trump

  Still waiting on the FT opinion piece advocating destroying the supply chain as a sold strategy to revive US auto manufacturing. ...any day now

• On the post: Donald Trump Backs His Co-President; Says Attacks On Tesla Dealerships Will Be Treated As ‘Terrorism’

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 12 Mar, 2025 @ 10:01am

  That darn Elmo...

  Foreign sales are were nearly one-half of Tesla sales. Curious, if Tesla can make it pissing away one-half of its revenue? Is the $TSLA board finally figuring out Elmo is the Titanic and they are the band?

• On the post: Trump’s Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their Lawyers

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2025 @ 11:45am

  That darn Roy Cohn

  Considering Trump sucked at the teat of Roy Cohn for years, he would know unethical lawyers when he sees one

• On the post: Trump’s Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their Lawyers

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2025 @ 11:41am

  That darn Kislyak...

  Trump handed out intelligence to Lavrov and Kislyak like they were peppermints

• On the post: South Dakota Republicans: Let’s Start Jailing Librarians

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 26 Feb, 2025 @ 10:20am

  Those darn books...

  And, by chance, if any SD HS grads are literate, they will make a beeline out-of-state for college.

• On the post: Musk Decries Hitler’s Censorship, Right Before Threatening To Jail Critics

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 18 Feb, 2025 @ 01:31pm

  That darn Elmo...

  If it provides any solace, it appears Elmo is father of several kids he goes nowhere around

• On the post: Price Hikes, Enshittification Trigger 700K Customer Losses At Disney+, ESPN+

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 14 Feb, 2025 @ 10:07am

  That Darn Joe Buck...

  Rough back-of-the-envelope est is ESPN/ABC is locked into ~$4B/yr in sportsball contracts. To make it worse, NBA ratings are down 5% this year. So losing even 700K subscribers is going to leave a mark

• On the post: GOP Is Quietly Freaking Out About Elon; Time For Them To Take A Stand

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2025 @ 10:43am

  That Darn Elmo...

  I have very low expectations of the GOP, so my criticism is aimed at the Dems. Why aren't they flooding every possible media with the practical realities of Trump2.0? No more limp language. Fed. govt. is one of the largest employers in many red districts. Tell the constituents, "When Elmo is done, your district will be looking at 7% UE." "Shutting USAID will force US farmers into bankruptcy.” “Get ready for grandma to move in when Medicaid cuts close her assisted living facility." And last: "Where are the f**kin' eggs?"

• On the post: Rogan Misses The Mark: How Zuck’s Misdirection On Gov’t Pressure Goes Unchallenged

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2025 @ 11:51am

  That darn Zuck...

  The strongest reason for moderation, as Elmo has discovered, is to protect your advertising revenue.

• On the post: Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 16 Jan, 2025 @ 08:22am

  Brexit part deux...

  Brexit was the act of jumping out of a plane, then debating what we should do about a parachute. Tik Tok has many of the same qualities

• On the post: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta’s New Content Moderation Policies

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2025 @ 11:20am

  That darn Elmo

  I've owned media companies. There is always somewhere else. X is still losing ad revenue and Elmo is still losing $$ hand over fist. If he wasn't, he wouldn't be whining about ad "boycotts" https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-shares-q5-marketing-tips/735593/

• On the post: The Good, The Bad, And The Stupid In Meta’s New Content Moderation Policies

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 08 Jan, 2025 @ 10:58am

  B**** better have my money

  Since FB makes nearly all of its money from advertising, how will this be affected? In reality, little may change in FB but if advertisers perceive changes that put their message in a bad environment, or they start getting negative blowback from consumers, will they go running to the doors like they did with Elmo?

• On the post: Trumplican 6th Circuit Just Killed Net Neutrality (And Whatever Was Left Of Pathetic U.S. Broadband Consumer Protection)

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 03 Jan, 2025 @ 11:00am

  Now might be a good time...

  For voters to make clear to their state representatives that communities should have as much right to build ISPs as Comcast.

• On the post: Elon Musk Doesn’t Like Some Headlines. But That Doesn’t Make Them Defamatory

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2025 @ 01:02pm

  In the words of Oliver Wendell Douglas TV character

  Sorry Elon and Donald, truth is an absolute defense against defamation.

• On the post: Texas Legislators Think Drones Armed With Tasers And Pepper Spray Will Stop School Shootings

  

  freakanatcha ( profile ), 03 Dec, 2024 @ 12:21pm

  Texas, you be you...

  Seeing how pepper spray couldn't stop a fight between the Michigan and Ohio State football players, I'm a little skeptical it would deter a lunatic with an AR-15. ...and another thing: what effect would being accidentaly tasered have on a 7 yr old with a heart condition?

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