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Jack London, eat your heart out!

See: "To Build a Fire."
December 11, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Just wait; with the way things are going (Discovery and WB JUST merged FFS), it will not be long before Disney has the chance to buy Netflix.
December 10, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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I agree with WGA - this merger must be stopped. www.wga.org/news-events/...
December 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
...but the minute they knew nobody was looking they went right back to the old ways because they knew they would make more profit even if it hurt more people and people hated them. Because who needs to be liked, when you are the only game in town and the government is on your side?
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
...they stopped offering contracts with insanely low prices that jumped in cost in the second year, and they were making much of the bill easier to understand. These things were hard for long-term customers to let go of, but we were told it was the right thing because it was more honest...
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
...and employee benefits went down. Everything turned back to sales above all, and talk about doing the right thing just quietly went away. Instead things were all about metrics and performance, and instead of incentives there were downsizes. When I started, they were getting rid of predatory sales
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
...they began giving employees more leeway to solve issues and rewarded "doing the right thing" to get everyone on board. Then Trump put Ajit Pai in charge of the FCC, and it was like the mask came off; no more flexibility to solve customer problems or work with them; prices went up...
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
I used to work in the Billing department for a massive telecom corporation that is almost UNIVERSALly hated by customers, but they treated their employees well. They also were in the middle of a lengthy effort (during the Obama years) to turn around the things that consumers complained about most...
December 6, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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it is a great piece of guerrilla warfare by the artist.
It is decaying hands grabbing for a decaying world. A perfect analogy for this award and for the recipient
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM