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😬 well I may or may not have clicked follow a few times to confirm…

Thanks for that clarification 🫣

I don’t know how helpful this is, but I can get to the profile thru my instance (mbin) but cannot successfully follow. I don’t even know how to look around. Maybe tomorrow, it doesn’t look like anything has matriculated yet.

Your point? It is not a corporation, which is what Ma Bell was. Fans of “deregulation” seem to miss this key aspect.

The Bell system is an inappropriate comparison. It was a monopoly; it was not what @toiletobserver@lemmy.world is talking about. Corporate monopolies were bad then, and are bad now, which is likely a factor in why New York is doing this.

This makes a recent comparison even worse. Or more real? Terrible either way.

Unfortunately that is what will set them (and the Mormons) apart with these things. The money they both have helps I am sure.

Oh ya

I don’t understand any of the people on that supposed short list, but maybe I shouldn’t try to make sense of it because nothing makes sense if people like Musk are in the running. What’s the big picture here?

I guess they aren’t fans of Concrete Blonde.

Good point. I will be working to raise a variety of tides!

Well, I didn’t catch that but OK 🫣

I’m not sure if @Rapidcreek@lemmy.world meant this with their subtitle, but this percentage is too low to foment change but maybe will keep our barely functional but better than nothing current systems. Hopefully we can surpass that historical 69% number.

Too many Democratic politicians are deciding to go with, “What are you going to do? Vote for a Republican?”

This is incredibly short-sighted and ethically wrong, but it seems we have reached that point. Difficult time to be a regular person in the US.

Maybe it is regional; I do not get a paywall or ad blocker message.

I don’t know if this will be helpful, and I’m not sure I have ever seen a video before, but I looked at the link, and while I have to click to open the image/video, it immediately starts playing (mbin). Unsure if normal behavior since I dont think I have opened a video before. Firefox fork on Android.