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  • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
    20·
    2 个月前

    The telecom company is looking to cut costs amid an industry-wide slowdown

    Did I just wake from a coma? Did everyone start cancelling their cell phone plans and internet connections?

    I’m blown away AI wasn’t mentioned as a reason lol.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      9·
      2 个月前

      While there is scant evidence that AI is having much of a tangible impact on productivity, it is a fantastic tool for justifying mass layoffs.

    • iegod@lemmy.zip
      7·
      2 个月前

      People are getting smarter about what kind of fees they’ll tolerate for mediocre service. I also bet TV service subscriptions are on the decline.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      2 个月前

      Did everyone start cancelling their cell phone plans and internet connections?

      Cable packages and streaming have been on the decline for a while.

      And, despite still being higher than some other countries, cellphone plans have been getting cheaper over the last decade.

      At the same time, the Telcoms have been spending capital on expanding their networks and replacing older hardware with newer faster equipment.

    • Archer@lemmy.world
      9·
      2 个月前

      Ah, but they could make even more money firing their experienced and expensive staff, tanking their product quality and juicing the stock in time for the CEO to golden parachute out while blaming AI

  • Sepia@mander.xyz
    2·
    2 个月前

    I am not posting often in ‘Canada’, but isn’t the Financial Post a US-owned media company that is often criticized as unreliable by tankies? Or is it good if the article aligns to a desired narrative?

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
      8·
      2 个月前

      Refusing to engage with media because it contains bias you don’t like is what liberals do when they retreat into their MSNBC bubbles. Meanwhile, socialists are secure enough in our own position to read sources we abhor, understand them, and approach their claims from a position of knowledge. Being an adult with a functioning brain gives me the capacity for critical analysis. Thus, I can read a piece of liberal slop and separate facts from the ideological framing it uses.

      • Sepia@mander.xyz
        5·
        2 个月前

        Being an adult with a functioning brain gives me the capacity for critical analysis.

        Aha.

      • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 个月前

        Buddy you didn’t even know what proxy meant in another thread

        Lmfao.

        I wish I could live as blindly as the ml crowd does it has to be freeing to be free of critical thought all the time.

          • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
            2·
            1 个月前

            On this instance, oh you mean outside of the .ml echochamber. I thought you all were about free expression and thought?

            And lmfao no I came across this gem of a comment and realized it was the same idiot who didnt even know what proxy meant but is talking about “intelligence” and critical thinking.

            Also you defined it after provided a dictionary excerpt on what it meant, after you said it meant something else, And then regurgitated what the dictionary said. You realize what you write is still right there right?

            Do you realize that?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mlOP
              4·
              2 个月前

              Let me explain this to you in this thread as well. A proxy not a nation being used by another more powerful nation, which it is a client of, to fight their adversaries. Let me know what part of that you’re still struggling with.

              • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                2 个月前

                You said

                “Meanwhile, Iran isn’t a proxy war because Iran is not a Russian proxy. Russia does not control the government in Iran or make decisions for Iranians. Amazing that you don’t even understand what the word proxy means.”

                See now a normal person with normal reading comprehension would read this as" this person thinks the other party has to have control of one of the governments fighting in the war for it to be a proxy war" and see I provided this definition to show you no, that is not the case. That’s not what proxy means. My “western education” you claim I’m a victim to actually taught me that in a fifth grade civics class.

                You see proxy war doesn’t mean that one of the parties using the other party to fight on their behalf means that they own or control them. It means that they see an opportunity to help an enemy of their enemy defeat that enemy.

                You could read the definition a couple more times I posted it for your benefit so that you can learn something.

                “Amazing you don’t know what proxy means”

              • Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
                1·
                2 个月前

                I’m struggling with understanding how

                You said

                “Meanwhile, Iran isn’t a proxy war because Iran is not a Russian proxy. Russia does not control the government in Iran or make decisions for Iranians. Amazing that you don’t even understand what the word proxy means.”

                Because I do know what proxy means and read the definition. So I’m struggling to understand why that would make Russia helping Iran to fight us not a proxy war.

                Can you explain it to me?

                Can you “approach my claims with knowledge”