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The whole world had largely ignored trump's renaming of the mexican gulf
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2025
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Uh, guys, isn't fascism supposed to be all efficient, and bureaucratic and shit?
No. The Nazis lied about everything they did. The autoban was under way before hitler. Anything good was basically already under way. The pieces of shit lie about everything if you have yet to notice.
They probably also likely removed it, because if you open your browser's debug window, it identifies clearly that T-Mobile is the backing carrier, not "the big three carriers" like they claim. It's T-Mobile's classic MVNO coverage map, if one is familiar with it (which will include possible roaming on other carriers, so they're not "lying"...)
That coverage site is also running on a very old system, IIRC, so good luck finding an engineer that still works there and knows how to fix it to "update" the gulf.
(Cell nerd deets, Mango-Mobile is using Liberty Wireless as their backing MVNO, which is an MVNO on T-Mobile's infra. Liberty was also already terrible. MVNO's are virtual cell carriers that live on real ones. It is NOT using Verizon, AT&T, or even Dish, except possibly in the case of roaming agreements.)
T-Mobile also use Muskrat's Starlink as their mediocre sat-to-cell service, and they also leveraged Mango's position in his first term to push through M&A's to acquire 5G spectrum to artificially accelerate/cheat past the others. John Legere fans, cover your ears, he actually went to Mango's FCC quite a bit to get this going.
tl;dr: probably a good idea to add T-Mobile to the boycott list next time one's looking for cell service. (As well, any T-Mobile MVNO like Mint, MetroPCS, etc. Here's an MVNO List that can be sorted by host network.)
Ugh. I'm on on of T-Mobile's MVNO's. Unfortunately, it's not like Verizon or AT&T are morally superior. What's a guy to do?
Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?
Because polticians are simultaneously too stupid to understand the problems they must regulate and too greedy to want to understand them.
Remind me why we allowed this much consolidation of the industry?
because telecom is somewhat of a natural monopoly (cables for sure; wireless less so, but for wireless you still need cables and spectrum)
Problem is, T Mobile bought so many other carriers that their coverage is unbeatable in the US. I've been all over the entire country and had coverage everywhere others with competing carriers didn't. That's anecdotal I suppose, but I'm afraid to switch to a carrier with worse coverage.
T-Mobile doesn't work everywhere, but nobody does. There's a town in Tennessee that I visited for work twice last year, and the moment I got to my destination, I lost coverage. If I wanted to make a call, I haf to drive a couple miles down the road.
That's fair. I was definitely exaggerating, but I do know I had coverage in much more of the country than the people I traveled with.
I have a feeling that we’ll be seeing more news like this one. Like the phone thing is just one huge scandal waiting to happen. Looking forward to seeing that spectacular crash. 🍿
I feel like the Trump administration has moved beyond scandals at this point. Scandals are just the ocean in which it swims. The emoluments clause is dead, buried, and completely forgotten. Other parts of the constitution are still hanging around in tatters, people are noticing some of that, but run of the mill scandal is not relevant.
But White House press secretary Caroline Levitt said that it's an "indisputable fact" that the body of water is called the Gulf of America!
Surely she wouldn't lie, would she? /s
I actually think she's not lying. I think she is a True Believer, fully in the Trump Distortion Field. She fully believes the insane things she says.
Next you’re going to tell me people aren’t signing on to “Arabian Gulf”
This one hasn't passed yet, when it does it'll bring whole new levels of mockery.
OMG, seriously?
"This bill authorizes the President to enter into negotiations with the government of Denmark to purchase or otherwise acquire Greenland. The bill also renames Greenland as Red, White, and Blueland."
Ah yes, let's piss off the counties that have strategic importance