Are you ever going to tell me what on Earth a “Cheney Dem” is and why you assume I’m even in that political party?

I have no idea what “Polymarket” is and I’m not any sort of Democrat.

I’m pretty sure being understood is, in fact, the responsibility of the person making a comment.

I’d rather live where it doesn’t take an ambulance or a fire truck two hours to get to me, but you do you.

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Let me guess, it’s the sunspot cycle. That’s what folks like you used to claim before we went through a couple of those and things kept getting worse.

Ah, I see, out of the kindness of their heart, Starlink is having an unprecedented one-month-free sale for new customers surviving a hurricane, something many, many, many companies do all the time when there isn’t a hurricane, but they don’t usually do.

And I’m angry that is being hailed as some sort of helpful or even heroic gesture on their part rather than, you know, a limited-time sale.

That’s marketing being reported as fact. They’re having a sale, that’s all that’s happening. Stop suggesting there’s anything more to it than that just because they want you to think it.

So… a “special offer to new customers?”

Again, a very common thing that businesses do all the time regardless of a hurricane.

Dude, you’re talking about a standard ISP offer. It is not any more a “free service” than any other ISP giving you one moth without paying a monthly fee. This does nothing to help hurricane victims despite it being pushed that way.

Seriously, is the whole concept of “the first month is free if you sign up” new to you?

I don’t remember them doing so. I just remember finding out Bernie came and left town and never told anyone.

Spectrum literally serves the entire country.

If Spectrum can do it, so can Musk.

I’m just astounded you are defending marketing this deceptive.

“Free as long as you don’t count the $400 initial cost and also you will be forced to pay $120 a month if you forget to go through all the hoops we will force you to go through in order to cancel in 30 days” is not the charitable donation you seem to think it is.

Your Cable/DSL modem isn’t a $400 piece of equipment

So what? If they don’t give it back, they owe $400.

Even then, the ISPs never give it to you for free, they charge you a monthly rental fee for it unless you bring your own.

Bullshit. Neither the local ISP I am using now nor shitty Spectrum when I had it charged me a dime. When we switched to the local ISP, Spectrum just wanted it back. The local ISP has a hell of a lot less money than any company Musk owns, and yet they can somehow handle giving out their equipment to tens of thousands of customers for free until they are returned.

No, but expecting a company to provide $400 in free equipment is also ridiculous.

It’s not ridiculous at all. Just like their “free” service, which is only free if you cancel the contract, it can be “free” hardware as long as you return it.

In fact, that’s how it generally works with ISPs and the modem they provide you with when you sign up for their service.

Yes, but have you considered the fact that lots of people hate Apple?

(Because I’m guessing whoever wrote that clickbait headline did.)

Believe it or not, they’re right. But it has nothing to do with how those countries treat their people considering they found that people from India and African countries were the ones who felt that the voices were positive.

https://news.stanford.edu/stories/2014/07/voices-culture-luhrmann-071614

You do know she’s ahead right now, yes?

Do you think any of the people in need of free internet right now just had that $400 hardware hanging around already? Otherwise I don’t think the ‘free’ part matters much.

Yeah, they sold out to The Man. That’s why I use MCI.

(including shipping and tax)

And I’m sure UPS will get your free $400 internet to you just as soon as services are restored and you won’t need it.

Sounds good to me. Every non-executive job should be unionized.